January 1st, 1999. The planet is yours to defend, and your first act as commander of X-COM is picking a spot on a map for your first base. No tutorial. No walkthrough. Just a spinning globe, sixteen nervous governments, and the knowledge that somewhere in the dark, Sectoids are already moving. X-COM: UFO Defense — known in Europe as UFO: Enemy Unknown — shipped in 1994 from a tiny British studio called Mythos Games, led by Julian Gollop. It was nearly cancelled twice during development. Then ...