PLAY AS THE ALIENS!!

[essohbe]

Maybe it's been mentioned before but I thought it'd be really cool to play the game as the alien side and you fight xcom.
I don't know how doable this is, maybe not at all lol, but it's just an idea to throw around. Your object to winning the game would be to infiltrate enough earth countries to stop the xcom project or simnply assault all the xcom bases into oblivion.

 

[the_third_curry]

It's definitely an idea that's been tossed around a lot, and one that a lot of people have mulled over, but, so far, I don't think anyone has given it a serious try. There's just so many questions about how it would be implemented.

[Muukalainen]

It could be fun researching the mystical human artefacts, rifles and pistols. Or the different regions, polar, farm, cities etc...

[Hadan]

It could be fun researching the mystical human artefacts, rifles and pistols.

And realizing that they are crap compared to your own plasma weapons 

[Hobbes]

And realizing that they are crap compared to your own plasma weapons 

Then, after a while, you realize that they start bringing better guns than yours... and you're still stuck to your plasma weapons

[Falko]

1.step playing as alien each alien gets a primed alien grenade so if death/stun => no weapon or live research for these ugly humans-> cydonia is safe!