UFO Tales: Episode 1

I began playing a very old game called X-Com (Also known as Alien Defense, or UFO) and its been an interesting play-through so far... So interesting in fact that I have once again decided to bore you all with a useless narrative of it! My apologies in advance.

It is the near future (Actually the year 2005... Man this game is old...) and mankind is being set upon by its greatest enemy save only zombies... Martians! These little Grey men with blaster pistols seem intent on... well... flying they're little saucers around earth seemingly pointlessly.
WE CANT LET THEM DO THAT! THINK OF THE EMISSIONS THOSE SHIPS MIGHT BE PUTTING INTO THE AIR!
And so, X-Com is formed out of a base in Switzerland. This base, is named DICE. That's right, the same people that brought you Battlefield Bad Company by day, also defends our rears from the ever present alien menace by night. By masquerading as a game development company, they can better hide their new underground base.

From here, we hired our first team of men to defend mankind from the Alien Polluters. Only the best would do.
The team went as follows:
Guile (From Street Fighter)
Josh Belmont (Modern Descendant of the Belmont... Vampire hunter)
Gabe Newell (Creator of Half life, also a fat person)
2 Unnamed Black females. Not sure how they got here.
And Benjamin Franklin III, who is a clone of a clone of Ben Franklin.

With this motley crew of both real and fictitious characters, armed to the teeth with modern weaponry and equipment... Surely the little Martians wouldn't stand a chance?

Well apparently I was wrong Sadly Wrong. We followed a UFO by radar until in put down in a countryside near Southern Germany... We then sent in the Skyranger to set down and drop off the squad.
There was no aliens in sight, and it was night out there, with poor visibility.
I now curse whoever's bright idea it was not to give out Night Vision goggles.
First Contact wasn't much contact at all, more like Josh Belmont getting hit in the chest with a green laser bolt.
Well so much for the Belmont Clan, I suppose Dracula is dead anyway, so who needs em.
The fighting kept going on, waging through the nearby cabins and fields of crop... Slowly tracking down the sources of the green laser fire from aliens who obviously had no trouble seeing in the dark... Finally, Gabe Newell, wielding a pair of pistols, got one as it exited a building.
For all of their technology and differences, a single bullet still seemed more then enough to put them down and keep them there, green blood oozing from the wound.

With this Alien down, and the source of the laser fire removed, the second half of the Squad (Guile and the 2 unnamed females) advanced on the small UFO itself, doubtlessly guarded by aliens on the inside, just waiting for us.
The obvious solution? Send the Unnamed Women in first. They have no name afterall, how important can they be?
They're with Belmont now.
Leaving Guile there, with either the choice of waiting on reinforcements from Gabe and Ben Franklin, or charging in to the same fate as those before him.
Guile had a name, therefore he had a higher chance of survival.
Bursting through the sliding front door, He took a non-lethal shot, injuring him, but not before he unleashed 3 rounds of his own... Not really accomplishing much besides damaging consoles. In a desperate attempt to do SOMETHING, he then pulled out his single issued grenade, primed it, and run out in a flurry of green lasers. (Like all good villains, they cant aim all that well)

Not much was salvaged from the explosion, and 3 of the squad went down... So obviously some restratagizing needed to be done. First of all, no more would there be fighting at night. The Aliens have far better visibility, and it works to our severe disadvantage. Next, and most importantly, X-com opened a second base in Northern Ontario... No more would they employ lame referential Characters, but instead they began to rely on this generations greatest contribution to the fight against Aliens:
Nolan Sarlo, Jenna Wood, Sam Desrosier, Talon Spencer, and some Japanese Kid.
(What... I need some kind of Cannon Fodder... And if I don't give them a Name, I don't get attached)

Armed with new weapons based on Alien Technology, surely these members would far surpass the swiss team.

This Theory was tested soon enough, as Aliens had begun to terrorize a small town in South America.

Moving the Canadian Team over by dropship, the squad was greeted upon opening the door by 3 grey skinned Martians, all of them busy shooting inside windows at a few screaming Warehouse employees.
Now in a extremely strange, and realistic turn of events... Jenna Wood went berserk (from shock, I imagine. Or Skittle overdose), and started firing without orders. First at her feet, then near the aliens. (Actually i'm not making this up, her Morale bar hit 0 and she went berserk.) Of course the only thing she managed to hit was a civilian.
Alerted to the teams presence, the Aliens returned fire, and a breif firefight broke out as the squad tried to leave the dropship.
Talon Spencer made excellent use of the new Laser Pistols, and dispatched 2 of them from his seat. Nolan however, was not so lucky. He left the ramp first, and the Aliens seemed to think he was really ugly, because they blew his face off.
That Japanese kid died too, but eh. He's a redshirt of sorts.
It was a hard fight, and Jenna managed to injure herself someway or another, but in the End, Sam Desrosier proved himself to be more then a match for any number of aliens.
Moving off on his own after that Japanese kid died, Sam used a fence for cover, and systematically destroyed 4 different martians. One shot for each of them.
The total casualty list for the city was 12 civy deaths, One Sarlo, a redshirt, plus that one screaming woman that Jenna shot.

That was all for the year of 2005. 2006 began with sights of a new alien, with tough skin and a snake like appearance...However I wont bore you all with another long story of the game.

X-com itself is a brilliant, brilliant game. Voted by some to be one of the greatest games of all time, surpassing even Ocarina of Time and MGS4. I cant imagine any of you really want to play the game, or even hear another story about it, but at the very least, feel free to vote here with who YOU think is going to survive the longest!