Monday, May 07, 2007
{*Don't Let Me Manage An Earth-saving Monopoly.*}
I just downloaded an old dos game (old dos game- redundant isn't int?) called Xcom: UFO Defense, which, according to IGN, is the best PC Game Of All Time.
Your job is to run a "company" which defends your funding countries from alien invasions. It's pretty detailed. You can build and develop bases on different countries, order ships, equipments,crews and other stuff, research and manufacture weapons, vehicles etc,you can choose to kill or contain aliens(which are of different kinds yey.)...the tasks are almost endless. Funding from different countries is relative to the amount of protection you give to them. So if you let Washington DC fall into the hands of empire-themed aliens with insanely accurate laser guns, you can be sure that your dollar account will go down the drain.
So there, I tried it. On my first game I ended up letting 2 UFOs escape from my interceptors. I reset my game so the Earth will forget my bad reputation. On my second game, my Interceptors (sadly it took 2 interceptors for that small thing) shot down the first UFO that was detected by my small radar. Hooray for me! I sent my BEST CREW to the crash site (which was in China) to check if there were alien survivors. All of the little grey men survived. Well the mission said that I should kill all survivors and retrieve the UFO and some alien tech that we can use. I finished the mission. I finished it with only 3 out of my 8 crew members left. There were only 3 aliens. They killed my 5 crew members. I even accidentally sent a soldier carrying nothing and let him walk out of the ship. My rating was terrible.
So much for my worldwide defense management.
Anyway, it's a fun game.
Magnifico
,sumulat noong 1:32 AM