I wouldn't know how to describe it? --Do you wish to file a UFO report?-- Sir, I would not know what to re
--Flight 452, do you wish to file a report at this time?--
Negative, Sir. I also would not know what to report.
The game takes off there. What is the purpose of these spacealiens?
You are given the Command. X-COM, Extraterrestrial Command.
--Can you describe what they look like?--
Small Sir. Only 3-4 feet in height. Grey-like in color.
Wait, some kind of energy weapon is being fired at us?
--Repeat?--
We are under attack!
The Nations of the World have decided to fund you. Your new job is to find out the purpose of these space-aliens and defend Earth.
It is a Classic! Not only will you probably not have enough funding to your liking, you will be working under impossible conditions, traveling all over the World. Of course, if you do wrong, your funding will go down, after-all funding something that is mainly hearsay and rumors does not gain much funding in the first place. Even if you gain any info from your labs and research, building the technology will leave you at a loss. Only your engineers can build some kind of human-based weapons. Understanding the spacealiens' technology is something akin to frankly being at a loss, trying to gain some understanding.
Thus the premise of the game, that has become a Classic about any of the rumors and the purpose of intelligent life outside of yours and this World.
You are not alone anymore!