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UFO: Afterlight | |
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Developer(s) | Altar Games |
Publisher(s) | TopWare Interactive |
Designer(s) | Radim Křivánek |
Series | UFO |
Platform(s) | Windows |
Release | February 9, 2007 |
Genre(s) | Turn-based strategy Real-time tactics |
Mode(s) | Single player |
UFO: Afterlight is a 2007 strategycomputer game and the third in Altar's UFO series. Like its predecessors UFO: Aftermath and UFO: Aftershock, it combines squad-level tactical combat with overlying strategic elements in a manner that's deliberately very much like the major 1994 classic X-COM: UFO Defense.
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Setting[edit]
In Aftermath, the few human survivors of an alien attack are forced to abandon the Earth's surface to the invaders. In return for doing so, some of humanity are moved off-planet to orbital colonies and to a small Mars colony. Aftershock features the subsequent events on Earth a half-century later while Afterlight focuses on the hitherto ignored inhabitants of Mars concurrently with Aftershock.
Time passes largely uneventfully in the high-tech yet rudimentary Mars base. Over 10,000 colonists remain in cryonic suspension, waiting for a time when the desert planet can support them. Among the fewer than thirty people awake, two new generations have risen and only the oldest now remember Earth. Contact with the increasingly authoritarian Council of Earth has become strained and recently cut altogether. Automation is very advanced and researchers are nearing the point where they can start terraforming Mars. However, an archaeological excavation disturbs something that should have been left alone.[clarification needed]
Gameplay[edit]
UFO: Afterlight is played in two parts. The first part is the strategy game consisting of claiming territory, building structures on the planet, managing research and production, managing personnel training, base management, and diplomacy where items and resources may be traded with other parties. The second part of Afterlight is the tactical game where, much like the previous UFO titles, up to seven soldiers may be equipped and deployed to accomplish a goal in missions. Some mission goals are to capture or kill a specific enemy, destroy or retrieve a particular item, and the ubiquitous kill everything that moves.
The game starts with a set number of characters, and a few new characters become available as the game progresses. Unlike previous titles, however, new characters cannot simply be purchased. Drones can be found in some missions who gain experience just like characters do, and can be repaired and upgraded with parts after appropriate research has been completed. Characters can have a single class such as Soldier, Technician, or Scientist. Some characters have more than one class, such as Soldier/Scientist, Soldier/Technician, or Scientist/Technician.
In the strategic game, territories are claimed by building a particular structure called a geosonde; some territories must be cleared of opposing forces before they can be claimed. Once claimed, additional structures can be built in the territory including terraforming stations, excavation sites, resource mines, and radars. Each type of structure will require either a Technician or Scientist to build. Though only equipped with a single Scientific Craft and a single Technical Truck for sending the respective characters to build structures on the planet, quite a few characters can be placed in either vehicle thus speeding up the construction process. While they are out building structures, the Scientists and Technicians are not available for missions or any other purpose.
Territories can have resources available to mine including metal, fuel, crystals, chemicals, noble metals, and others. To tap into the resource, simply build a mine and that resource gains +1 level cumulative with other mines of the same type. Resource levels can also be traded with other factions on the planet, which will give a –1 to whatever resource is offered, and a +1 to whatever resource was offered in return (be warned that these deals cannot be undone!), otherwise there is no actual resource management. Some resources are capped at low levels unless certain buildings can be built to raise this cap. Many actions in the strategic game, such as research, production, and upgrading the base, have one or more prerequisites such as a specific technology, a particular base structure, a minimum resource level, or some combination of these requirements.
In the tactical game, squads of Soldiers are equipped and sent on missions; they travel to and from missions in the UFO, a gift from the colonist's Reticulan friends. Technicians and Scientists with Soldier levels can be included in missions and gain Soldier experience as usual, but some missions will also give Technician or Science experience to the respective classes. It's a good idea to use the mixed class characters in missions often enough to keep their Soldier levels up for those missions that require use of a Scientist or Technician.
The Mars landscape is a hostile place for humans and aliens alike. In the strategic view, an Environment Hostility factor will be shown that fluctuates slightly every few days. Missions will have an Environment Hostility rating based on the overall rating, and will vary by day and night. Terraforming stations will also lower the Environment Hostility for missions in that region. Suits must be worn to protect against the environment. If a Soldier is wearing a suit that is not rated high enough for the mission's Environment Hostility, the suit can become damaged while in the mission; the greater the discrepancy between the suit's rating and the Environment Hostility, the more likely the suit is to be damaged and the character be hurt. A Technician can repair damaged suits with a repair device.
All characters gain experience in their respective classes. For Soldiers, combat missions are the sole method to gain experience and Soldier levels. Technicians gain experience by working on production queues, building structures at the base, building structures on the planet, or participating in missions requiring a Technician. Scientists gain experience by performing research in labs, building structures on the planet, or participating in missions requiring a Scientist.
As a character gains levels, training points accumulate which are used to train the character in various skills, as well as increasing a characters abilities (strength, dexterity, etc.). There are separate skill sets for Soldiers, Scientists, and Technicians, however some of the Science and Technician trainings are useful during combat missions in addition to their respective role in the strategic game. For example, Suit Handling training allows Technicians to build suits faster, as well as repairing damaged suits while in a mission. Scientists can train Medicine, which allows them to research Medicine technologies faster and use healing devices in missions.
Base management includes building and upgrading existing base structures that grant the ability to build new weapons and equipment, expand resources, add room to perform more research or production, and train and heal characters among other things.
Research has many avenues such as Medicine, Earth Technology, Martian Technology, and Planetology among many others. Just as in other UFO titles, research is necessary to upgrade equipment, gain the use of alien technology, expand the base and improve overall capabilities. Additional Laboratories can be added if the prerequisites are met, allowing research into multiple technologies at once.
Production allows new items to be created. Each time something is added to the production queue, a build quantity can be set. Before any actual quantity of the item is produced, however, a production line takes time to set up. Once the production line is built, the items start being produced and will continue until the quantity defined is reached or the item is removed from the queue. The quantity to be built can be changed at any time, and queued items may be freely moved ahead or behind others, without affecting the production line setup time. Additional Workshops may be built if prerequisites are met, allowing multiple production queues to build multiple items at once.
External links[edit]
- Critical review on GameSpot
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UFO: Aftermath | |
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Developer(s) | ALTAR Interactive |
Publisher(s) | Cenega / Tri Synergy, Inc. |
Designer(s) | Martin Klíma |
Platform(s) | Windows |
Release | October 24, 2003 |
Genre(s) | Real-time strategy |
Mode(s) | Single player |
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UFO: Aftermath is a 2003 turn-based strategy game created by ALTAR Interactive. Originally, it was an abortive project (The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge) by Mythos Games. In 2002, the project was bought by ALTAR and development restarted. It is a homage to the X-COM game series. ALTAR Interactive has released two sequels: UFO: Aftershock (2005) and UFO: Afterlight (2007).
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The game's concept is similar to the unreleased X-COM: Genesis. The player assumes the role of commander of the last humans left on Earth and guides the forces through the crisis to eventually overcome the alien threat. UFO: Aftermath combines global strategy with tactical missions, including an RPG-like approach to each soldier's attributes and skills.
Gameplay[edit]
A screenshot of the battle mode
Rooted deeply in the X-COM series, the game combines elements of strategy with squad-based tactics. The game consists of two separate parts which are played simultaneously: a strategy phase in which the player controls and expands his organization, and a tactical phase in which player-controlled units battle alien enemies.
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The strategic phase allows the player to outfit his/her troopers for action, acquire new equipment and personnel, and conduct research to enable the production of more advanced equipment. Mission markers pop up on the globe, indicating locations where a team can be dispatched to battle. Winning a battle may expand the player's territory, allowing more access to resources.
The tactical phase is real-time combat. All combatants move and act simultaneously, rather than using turns. A player can pause time or have the game set to automatically pause on certain events and issue orders to his troopers. In deviation from the X-COM series, the battlefield is presented in fully rotatable 3D view.
Plot[edit]
In May 2004, a giant spacecraft approached Earth. Hovering over the planet, it released large clouds of spores into the upper atmosphere. Rapidly multiplying, the spores soon darkened the skies, obscuring the sun completely. This period is known as the 'Twilight'. Having reached critical mass in the skies, the spores began to rain down, clogging the streets and bodies of water, smothering people in their homes and burying animals in the wild. During the 'Nightfall', as it would come to be called, most of the higher life forms on earth were wiped out. During the Twilight, all human responses were futile. The governments of the world chose caution over aggression, not realizing how quickly the end could come, and were buried. However, a few survivors sealed themselves in underground bases with stocks of food and oxygen. After several weeks, the spores seemed to disintegrate, decomposing and settling into the soil.
The player must gather together the remaining peoples of the planet, find out what has happened, and, if possible, take vengeance. The aliens the player fights are known as the Reticulans, who are heavily based on Greys, controlling various horrific mutant lifeforms.
Reception[edit]
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UFO: Aftermath received middling reviews. GameSpot gave it 6.4 out of 10 for some simplified and missing features, previously seen in X-COM, that would have allowed for more in-depth gameplay.[3]IGN gave it 7.5 (Good), criticizing simplicity and lack of some features from the X-COM series.[5]GameSpy noted 'Cons: Bad AI and pathfinding; repetitive missions; shallow strategic gameplay; persistent inventory bugs,' but praised some parts of the game.[4]
Mods[edit]
Both official and third-party tools exist to help modding UFO:Afterlight.[6] In order to encourage user mods, the publisher held an official contest, resulting in mods affecting many aspects of the game, including skins, weapon models, and characters.[7] The tools are also compatible with UFO: Aftershock. For UFO: Afterlight, they are still compatible, although the game won't accept modded content or added content because of changes in its engine.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ^'UFO: Aftermath for PC'. GameRankings. 2003-10-15. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
- ^'UFO: Aftermath for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. 2003-10-15. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
- ^ ab'UFO: Aftermath Review'. GameSpot.com. 2003-10-15. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
- ^ ab'GameSpy: UFO: Aftermath - Page 1'. Pc.gamespy.com. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
- ^ ab'UFO: Aftermath Review - IGN'. Au.ign.com. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
- ^'Modding tools for UFO: Afterlight'. Strategy Core. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ^'Official modding contest for UFO: Afterlight'. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
External links[edit]
- UFO: Aftermath at MobyGames
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