UFO Aftermath PC CDRom - A Combination of a Small Squad Tactical Combat and a Global Strategy Game

A Dungeon and Dragons Real-Time Strategy Experience! Product Information It's May 25, 2004, and Earth is doomed unless up to seven soldiers take action to rid it of scary aliens and mutants through global-resource strategy management and on-the-ground, in-the-action, small-squad tactical combat. Develop your soldiers through the game's role-playing element and execute your directives simultaneously in real-time combat with the option of pausing the game to get your team of soldiers to roam earth's alien- and mutant-infested countries. The sole focus being: to blast the aliens and mutants into another universe. UFO: Aftermath is a combination of a small squad tactical combat and a global strategy game, putting you against an alien threat. Use all of your skills and abilities to defend the planet Earth from its destruction. Fight against many kinds of mutants and aliens, research new technologies, develop incredible weapons and devices which will help you in your war against uninvited space visitors. Product Highlights Combining a global strategy with small squad tactical combat, the challenge offered is to fight against an alien invasion. Featuring run time generated tactical missions with innovative simultaneous combat action; the genre is also enhanced with strong RPG elements, offering a quite unique mix of strategic ideas. RPG - Your soldiers will improve as they gain more experience. Their skills are derived from these statistics, and each point that you put into any one of these attributes will have a noticeable effect on that soldiers skills. These attributes are: Strength, Agility, Dexterity, Willpower, Intelligence, and Perception Strategy - You must manage your bases, interceptions, and squads. Territory is equal to power in the game - the more you control, the better your interceptor coverage. Also, the faster you research, the better things could be. Tactics - Fighting on the ground against aliens and mutants for the control of territories. Once you control a territory, you can decide what type of base you want there: Research, Military, Manufacture or Biomass repulsion. Combat - Unique combat system features all of the best elements of both turn-based and real-time combat systems. You give orders while the game is paused to avoid the frantic rush of a real time system. While in pause you can give your troops very detailed orders taking as much time as you like. Once you are finished you simply start the game and continue playing. Once the game is underway you can pause the game at any point to update or change your orders and the game will automatically pause when important events occur, so that you may modify your plans accordingly. This combat is combining the finely grained tactics of a turn-based game with the realism of a real time system. Product Features

• Non-linear environments with a strong and unique combination of real-time and turn-based combat with global strategy and local tactical warfare
• Complete 3D environment
• Hard-core weaponry from standard-issue weapons of defense to newly researched weapons of mass destruction, including the Foldable Personal Turret
• Global Missions - during the game you'll have the option to fight anywhere on Earth, from deep forests to high mountains
• Strong role-playing elements feature within the tactical combat system
• Up to 20 available soldiers have six attributes and 14 skills which can be improved throughout
• Directors Cut - the player can see the most exciting moments of a mission through a special movie-like camera
• Region-specific graphics, including building style, flora, and advertising hoardings
• Destructible objects, destructible aliens, destructible soldiers, destructible planet

Windows Requirements

• Windows 98, 2000, XP
• Pentium III 500 MHz processor
• 128 MB of RAM
• 1.25 GB Hard drive