X-COM: Apocalypse
Rating: 75.6
DOS PC

X-COM: Apocalypse

Released: Jun 30, 1997
Series:
X-COM
Genres:
Real Time Strategy (RTS) Real-Time with Pause (RTwP) Squad Management Strategy Tactical Turn-based Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes:
Horror Post-apocalyptic Science fiction Warfare
Perspectives:
Bird view / Isometric
Game Modes:
Single player
Description from Steam STEAM

There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city. UFOs swarm through Dimensional Gateways. The city's under siege from an unknown enemy. Your mission, as X-COM Commander, is to combat alien aggression and uncover their deadly intentions. But Beware! Alien infiltration into the city and its politics could see you under fire from criminal gangs, religious sects, and even the police! Alien fleets fill the skies, creatures terrorize the city, chaos reigns... Welcome to the war, welcome to the Apocalypse. Features: Explosive third game from the highly successful and thrilling X-Com series, following X-COM: UFO Defense and X-COM: Terror from the Deep. Battle alien invasion fleets over the city of Mega Primus in real-time. Combat the alien infestation in real-time or turn-based tactical missions. Research alien-based technology. Create newer and more destructive weaponry. Destroy alien sympathizers and stem alien infiltration. Wage war on new worlds in the Alien Dimension.

Description from IGDB IGDB

Your mission, as X-COM Commander, is to combat alien aggression and uncover their deadly intentions. But Beware! Alien infiltration into the city and its politics could see you under fire from criminal gangs, religious sects, and even the police! Alien fleets fill the skies, creatures terrorise the city, chaos reigns... Welcome to the war, welcome to the Apocalypse.

Storyline IGDB

Half a century after the end of the second X-COM campaign, the last battle of T'leth has severely damaged Earth's biosphere. As a result, several self-contained Megalopolis-type cities were proposed to provide habitation for humanity. The game follows Mega-Primus, the first of these cities, built over the ruins of Toronto, Canada. Meanwhile, the off-world colony of Mars is exploited by the Elerium mining corporation, Solmine, and oppressed by MarSec (MARs SECurity). The alien threat in the game is presented by a new race of organic, extradimensional aliens that initially seem to have no relation to the aliens of the previous two games, though later missions set in the aliens' home dimension reveal they have enslaved Sectoid survivors. These new aliens attack the city through tetrahedron-shaped teleport gates. The player must find out how to send their own aircraft, along with X-COM agents, through these gates without being destroyed and take the war to the aliens. Apocalypse has 14 races of alien beings including Anthropods, Brainsuckers, Hyperworms, Megaspawns, and Micronoids. Each race has various strengths and weaknesses, and some races are dependent on other races. The "alien life cycle" plays a crucial role in the game. The player is exposed to this "alien life cycle" through research and more importantly the lower level alien attacks during specimen gathering combat. Primarily the attack of the weaponized alien the Brain-Sucker which attacks individuals after landing from a pod launcher utilized by alien foot soldiers. The Brain-Sucker hatches and attacks the nearest individual by jumping on their head and seemingly injecting something into them through the mouth and dying immediately after the attempt. The life cycle later takes a mysterious turn as it shows no connection between the lower alien forms and higher alien forms. Eventually, however, it is found the leaders of the invasion are the Micronoids, a race of sapient single-celled organisms that live in the bloodstreams of the other aliens; the ultimate goal of the invasion is to inject Micronoids into the bloodstreams of important figures, allowing them to control Mega-Primus through psionic domination of their hosts. The player is eventually tasked with invading the aliens' homeworld and destroying their side of the gate as the only way to stop the Micronoid infestation.

Basic Info
Release Date: June 30, 1997
IGDB Rating: 75.6/100 (19)
Rating Count: 19
IGDB ID: 26
Additional Information
IGDB Rating: 75.6/100 (19 votes)
Release Date: June 30, 1997
IGDB ID: 26
Series: X-COM
Additional Series: XCOM
Платформы 2
DOS
PC
Genres 7
Real Time Strategy (RTS) Real-Time with Pause (RTwP) Squad Management Strategy Tactical Turn-based Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes 4
Horror Post-apocalyptic Science fiction Warfare
Player Perspectives 1
Bird view / Isometric
Game Modes 1
Single player
Developers
Mythos Games

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Publishers
2K Games

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MicroProse Software, Inc.

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