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You can observe their units (assuming your soldiers have a clear line of sight), and if you've left enough time units over, your men will even fire at the enemy should one jump out around a corner or something equally silly. When you've made your moves, your turn ends and the aliens get to have a go.

Especially because they've got plasma guns - Much more dangerous then those rifles that you thought were so cool back when you were safe in your oversized basement. There are quite a few ways of dispatching your opponents, and you'll have to use strategy to make sure you take fewer hits then they do. Moving around is a simple point and click affair, and units are bright enough to stop if they see an enemy. Each unit in play has a set amount of 'time units' (TUs for short) to use, and each action chews these up in varying amounts. Ground combat takes place in turn based mode. Nevertheless, it can carry an impressive amount of gear quite a distance, and soon enough your team of armed killers will be ready for action. A special dropship known as the SkyRanger is reserved for transportation, which is pretty much all it's good for - It has no weapon hardpoints and is a lot slower the your Interceptor fighter craft. Once your flyboys have done the business it's time to send the ground forces in.

Or, you can back of and just trail the enemy around the globe - Shooting it down while over water doesn't leave much for you to recover.

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A variety of orders can be triggered by buttons to the side - You can attempt to stay out of range of the UFO (which works well if your weapons can fire further), or go full throttle and attack from point blank range (making it more difficult for the ETs to escape).

Each craft procedes to unload it's weapons into the other, while the display informs you as to who's taking the most hits. You can see your craft at the bottom of the window, and a blip above indicates the relative location of the UFO. Once you spot your first alien invader, the jets are scrambled and it's a race to shoot it down.ДЄerial combat is displayed by way of a radar view. Catch is you can only see activity as far as your radar goes so saving up for extra bases is another entry on your to-do list. This is done via the geoscape, which is a military dictators dream come true - A display of the entire world, and it's all 'your territory'.

Most of your funding gets dumped directly into upgrading what you've already got and there's quite a list of things to organise - Extra facilities for your base, tanks to accompany your ground forces, research into new weapons, and so on and so forth.ДЄfter a healthy session of squandering tax payers money, it's time to do some real work and hunt down the aliens. Unfortunately, you soon discover that everything has been purchased from the lowest bidder, and the aliens have got plasma guns. With nothing but a few million dollars, a top secret underground base, a couple of fighter craft and a bunch of heavily armed soldiers under your command, things look pretty good from the outset. Time to lock up the wife and children and hide out in the old basement, eh? No such luck, you've just been put in command of the main extraterrestrial combat unit (X-Com for short), meaning you're point man in sending the other worlders packing. It's the year 1999, and the worst has happened - Yup, the aliens have made contact, by way of invading.

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