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Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
>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...)

That's X-Com Enforcer which was an arcadey FPS.

>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").

Urban Chaos. Diedrianna(?) Lives too.

>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...