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122 Years of Extraterrestrial Combat Until 2040, until a new kind of terror emerges from the depths of our own oceans, requiring X-COM to reunite and redeploy 20,000 leagues under the sea as it battles the Terror from the Deep. An alien race, completely separate from the ones encountered in previous X-COM games, crash landed many millions of years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs. The T’Leth had been hidden in the depths of our oceans for 65 million years until the base on Mars was destroyed in the first Enemy Unknown, which sent out an tachyon beam and was received by a long, long dormant receptor, and the human race have to deal with a new threat. One already set up in the deepest recesses of the planet. Weapons and warcraft developed in Enemy Unknown have no effect underwater, causing the player to begin again. Despite a few tweaks here and there, gameplay is identical to Enemy Unknown, but this time dealing with Aquatoids and Lobster Men. Over six years the war ravages on, never straying far from the true X-COM turn- ‘Weapons and warcraft developed in Enemy Unknown have no effect underwater, causing the player to begin again.’ based management style. Eventually X-COM discovers ‘Alien Horror’, a cryogenically preserved tentacled being in the processes of being reawoken to destroy the human race. The team must end up sacrificing themselves to destroy the Alien Horror and the remainder of the T’Leth. Fast-forward to 2067 and the human race are desperate. Earth’s resources are all but completely depleted, causing the megacorporations of the time to take to space in search of ram materials that humans require to survive. Having not spent long scouring space, an old enemy returns, the aliens from the original Enemy Unknown rear their ugly, bulging-eyed heads once more. Essentially a space combat sim, most likened to Colony Wars, X-COM: Interceptor strays far from the X-COM format and relies heavily on the name. However, elements of classic X-COM remain as you undertake the role of commander of X-COM in this particular region of space, creating bases, managing resources and finances, etc. and more importantly find out what about the region has interested the aliens so much. XCOM: Enemy Within Special Edition 2013 16 • GameOn Magazine