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On 2005-05-12, Daniel "Naughty Tentacles" Blakemore 
<Daniel.Blakemore@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
> UFO,
> TFTD,
> X-Com Apocalypse,
> X-Com Interceptor
> X-Com E-Mail (fun whilst it lasted ;)  )
> ...and a daft one featuring an X-Com android...  X-Com Aftermath, I think?

Not Aftermath; something with an e? UFO:Aftermath might be the name
you're remembering; a vaguely similar game from ~2003, but by most
accounts fairly terrible. (I didn't buy it...)

Three "conventional" X-COM games, the first three, then they became "in 
the same setting, but not the same game". 

If you want more in the same vein, finding a copy of Jagged Alliance 2
is probably worthwhile. (There's the original game, then an extended
"gold edition", and at least one complete mod available from the
Internet ("Urban something"). Recommended. It was re-released a couple 
of years back, so shouldn't be too hard to find; it's just a shade under 
six years old now, so the graphics look a little aged, but certainly 
more modern than the "proper" X-COM games. Misses the research option, 
but slowly lets you get new hardware from the market, so the same 
dynamic is there.

In all honesty, I haven't seen a good game in the same style since JA2. 
Which, damnit, I now want to play again...

-- 
-Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk