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UFO: Afterlight
Summary
UFO: Afterlight is a 2007 real-time tactics/turn-based strategy video game and the third in Altar Games' UFO series. Like its predecessors UFO: Aftermath and UFO: Aftershock, it combines squad-level tactical combat with overlying strategic elements inspired by the 1994 classic X-COM: UFO Defense.
Following the canonical “bad” ending of UFO: Aftermath, humans agree to the terms of Reticulans who invaded Earth: some humans are moved to the Laputa over Earth (the events of UFO: Aftershock), while 10,000 colonists in cryo-sleep and a small research team are moved to Mars, with intention of terraforming the planet and making it a new home for humanity.
Immediately prior to the events of the game, a member of the excavation research team, Jurgen, stumbles upon alien structure filled with robots of unknown origins. The robots awaken and attack, killing him in the tutorial mission. Soon, robots begin emerging from buried structures all over Mars. They begin attacking Human stations and even damage a critical water pipeline from the North Pole. The colonists are forced to recover and begin manufacture armaments to protect themselves against the new threat.
Once sufficiently armed, the Humans strike back at the large robot cluster close to the original site of their discovery. The attack is successful, but a robot short circuit and activates a mysterious portal at the combat site. Aggressive alien creatures dubbed “Beastmen” pour out of the portal and open fire on the Humans, forcing them to retreat. Beastmen refuse all attempts at communication, and soon begin arriving in large numbers from several portals all over the planet. While the Humans eventually manage to destroy the power source of their portals, the Beastmen create numerous outposts all over the planet, including a large base on the other side of the planet from the Human base. The Beastmen carry out a direct attack on the Human base – while they are repelled, there is damage to the cryo facility that begins the process of awakening the colonists.
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