

You order movements from here, such as sending out fighters to intercept UFOs, transports with soldiers to assault/recover UFOs, and perhaps assaults on alien bases (if you find any). On the strategic side, called GeoScape, you get a rotating view of the globe, where you see all visible UFOs (those that are within your detection range) as well as major cities and your base(s).

X-COM: UFO Defense is a strategy game featuring separate but interlinked elements. Starting with one base, two fighters, one transport, and a few soldiers, X-COM must locate the aliens, learn about their origins and technology, find out where their base is, and destroy it. It was eventually decided to organize a secret paramilitary group, dubbed Extraterrestrial Combat Unit (X-COM).

Finally, after various nations of the world have failed to intercept the UFOs, their representatives met in a conference of global importance in Geneva, Switzerland. Stories about abductions and alien attacks became more and more widespread. In the year 1998, the amount of reports of UFO sightings has been drastically increased.
