UFO: The Two Sides is a multiplayer remake of X-COM: UFO Defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown, developed by Microprose and released in 1993.
UFO: TTS recreates most of the original features of X-COM, adding a couple of new ones, and changing the ones that existed. However, the game recreates most of the features as faithfully possible to maintain the unrivalled gameplay of it’s predecssor. Although numerous other attempts have been made to recreate X-COM, there is no multiplayer game that lets you play full campaings (as in both the Battlescape and Geoscape.) The project was started on March 1st, 2009, and the first public beta was released July 10, 2010.
All games from the X-COM series are property of their owners (in 2005, Take-Two aquired the rights to the X-COM series), the game is still being sold, therefore, the original game is not “abandonware”, and cannot be distributed for free legally. Present, UFO: TTS uses original graphics from X-COM, making it impossible to be downloaded as a complete stand alone product. The crew is currently working on remaking all the graphics, so this will not be a problem in the future, but for now, you have to have X-COM installed to get the most out of UFO: TTS.
The author of this page does NOT take any credit for the development of this game, and has permission to make this page. All the credit for this game goes to the project team Ufotts.ninex.info
Features:
Multiplayer – One person is the commander of X-COM, and the other is in control of the Alien force.
Singleplayer campaigns of either side. You can play both as X-COM, or the Aliens (X-COM AI is not finished yet, however)
Geoscape time passing in tactical combat. See day become night and night become day.
Rebalanced and reworked tactical combat. It’s no longer as much luck based as it was. It’s more about tactics, positions, and using some of the previously not popular items (Smoke grenades, for example)
Reworked aircraft interception. It is now possible to have a 4 vs. 4 interception now. Also, air combat is now determined not only by the range of your crafts weapon, but also by the speed of the crafts. Even if you equip long distance weapons, you cannot hold enemy crafts away for infinite time.
Keyboard shortcuts
Small, yet interesting changes to the alien races, mostly to give then more combat flavor, instead of just the “UFOpedia” flavor. Remember reading the Celatid’s description? Their flavor text mentioned they can detect human brain waves. Celatid’s in UFO: TTS will also, making them act like a radar for Muton soldiers!
Alien ranks gain more meaning (i.e., medics will be able to heal their allies)
Game works on XP and Vista (might work on other Windows family systems)
Many, many more…
UFO: The Two Sides was developed by NinjaBunny
UFO: The Two Sides was Released on Windows
UFO: The Two Sides is a Single & Multiplayer game
UFO: The Two Sides