Tales from the battlefield
It was always difficult to capture enemy UFOs--they only had a single entrance and it was always guarded by hordes of murderous aliens. No matter how clever the locking mechanism, we could always get through the door by inserting explosives into the gaps between the door and the fuselage. The problem was that the aliens would usually detect the presence of our demolition experts. They would then open the door and unleash death upon us, usually in the form of fiery explosives and man-seeking sentinels. Finally we were given reactive ion rockets for our portable rocket launchers. These babies were strong enough to punch through the UFO hull. With these weapons, taking alien vessels became child's play. We'd just crack open the hull wherever we chose and toss in a handful of grenades and wait for the inevitable alien screams. Once they died down our squad would enter our new "door" and mop up any remaining resistance. Everyone was happy--except for the eggheads. They whinged incessantly about the destruction to the alien tech. I guess you can't please everyone. Life was good for the CAF soldier. Until one day...we had just breached another UFO hull and sent in our death squad when we lost contact with our lookouts. The last thing we heard through the static was them talking about foam. But we did not have time to worry about because we had just been ambushed by the enemy. They were hitting us with their incendiary weapons and the interior of the vessel had been turned into a fiery hell. The heat forced us to retreat back to the hull breach where we discovered it had been sealed with a thick foamy substance. Even as we examined it, it hardened into a solid mass. The heat from the alien assault seemed to be curing the foam into an impenetrable wall. We were trapped inside the UFO and about to become the main guest at an impromptu alien barbecue! Luckily the foam on the exterior of the hull breach was not hardening as fast--it was not being subjected to the same intense heat. Our lookouts outside the UFO were able to blast a hole through the toughening foam and we escaped just in time!
UFO2:Extraterrestrials main menu
Welcome, Player, to the UFO2:Extraterrestrials main menu. After installing the game and launching it, this is the first screen you will see. From here you can take the usual actions of starting a new game, continuing your most recently saved game, loading a specific save, tweaking the game settings, replaying the intro video, viewing the credits, or exiting the game. The intro video starts by showing a massive alien mothership arriving in Earth's orbit from deep space via a wormhole. You watch as the alien fleet commander orders a wave of UFO fighter craft to launch an attack against an aircraft carrier sailing in the Indian Ocean. What happens next you will soon see...