X-COM: Interceptor

The most underrated of the X-COM games and the best of them as well. I bought a copy in 1998, literally got emotional when I flew my first dogfight ... here was the first really top notch hybrid game, with an X-Wing style flight sim married to a Civilization-style strategy game. I played it right up until last year. You may want to open the gamesettings.ini file and tinker around with weapon/shield/hull settings , buffing the latter to make battles last 10 minutes instead of 1. On windows 11 you can't really come and go from the game as you please; if you open a word processor or something while the game is running... you'll have to save and restart the game to come back and continue playing. There will be a crash roughly every half hour...its been that way for almost 30 years. Save frequently.

I was just about 23 years old when this was released and it was terrible back then. Now i am around 51 years old. Its still bad. Avoid it like the plague. And to think that, this was released at the same time freespace was released. Apart from the main XCom games (XCom, XCom 2, XCom 3 and the reboots) stay away from the franchise.

i forgot i even got this, i think it was part of a bundle? there's a reason no one mentions it, it's like wing commander but just nowhere near as good or memorable. what xcom fan wanted a combat space sim anyways? i guess it could work but it feels like missing the point of the entire franchise

A horrible amazing mess with indecipherable controls and frequent crashes. I love it its amazing

Funny sometimes to go back to these games and see why they got so much hate. If anything, this game deserves worse than what it got. As a massive flight sim and X-COM fan I have no idea who they were trying to please here.

It has an interesting learning curve that takes some time to master, but it is not a bad game and runs well on modern hardware now.