X-COM: Interceptor (1998)
X-COM: Interceptor is a 1998 real time strategy (rts) video game made by MicroProse Software, Inc. and 2K Games.
X-COM: Interceptor takes the franchise into deep space, putting you in command of fighter squadrons defending humanity's mining outposts at the frontier of explored space. The aliens here are not just invading; they are methodically dismantling the infrastructure that keeps Earth's economy running. Between missions you build and equip your fighters, manage your base, and send pilots out into dogfights that blend the series' characteristic resource management with real-time space combat. The stakes are strategic rather than personal: let enough mining operations fall and Earth loses the war of attrition before a single soldier lands.
Quick answers
What is X-COM: Interceptor about?
X-COM: Interceptor takes the franchise into deep space, putting you in command of fighter squadrons defending humanity's mining outposts at the frontier of explored space. The aliens here are not just invading; they are methodically dismantling the infrastructure that keeps Earth's economy running. Between missions you build and equip your fighters, manage your base, and send pilots out into dogfights that blend the series' characteristic resource management with real-time space combat. The stakes are strategic rather than personal: let enough mining operations fall and Earth loses the war of attrition before a single soldier lands.
When was X-COM: Interceptor released?
X-COM: Interceptor was released on 15 June 1998.
Who made X-COM: Interceptor?
X-COM: Interceptor was made by MicroProse Software, Inc. and 2K Games.
Similar games
Explore X-COM: Interceptor guides
X-COM: Interceptor in our writing
- Companion guide: MicroProse: Flight Sims, Sid Meier and the Empire of One More Turn
A few thoughts on X-COM: Interceptor
The Blackout shares the same high-pressure scenario of a coordinated alien assault on civilization, with humanity scrambling to respond before the window closes. For the base-building and strategic attrition layer, Mass Effect 2 offers a similar structure: equip and upgrade your crew, manage the mission clock, and go to the fight prepared or don't come back.
Space combat games where base management funds the dogfights
Interceptor moved X-COM into three-dimensional space while keeping the franchise's base-building backbone. Funding from mining operations determines what ships you can field. Losing a colony costs you your next upgrade cycle. These games tie tactical results directly to strategic resources in the same feedback loop.