Pumpkinhead Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 On the cover of the UFO: Enemy Unknown manual, what the hell are those aliens meant to be!?!?!? For those of you who might not have seen it, I'll try and describe what they look like:They're about twice human height, with a head like a praying-mantis, except there's several tendrils coming off it like hair and whiskers and it has a mouth full of sharp teeth and a huge spike from each cheek... Then it has a body looking like the roots of some tree or vine with a spiralling column down the centre... Then there's the "arms" which are just metal poles with some strange Asimov(sp?)-like gun upon the end... Why is it there? Why aren't there Sectoids and Chryssalids on the cover?? What was going on??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 That pic is probably the one reason why my UFO pdf manual is about 10mb... https://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/sarcastic.gif Presumably the cover art section wasn't in touch with the game designers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 That's one of two covers that come with the game. The other is that incredibly souped up Avenger with propulsion boosters flying away from Mars. That Avenger isn't in the game either. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkinhead Posted December 5, 2003 Author Share Posted December 5, 2003 I guess they didn't want to give away the surprise of what the in-game aliens were going to look like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 I always think the alien on the cover looks like a cybernetically enhanced Tentuculat. Maybe it's what the alien brain used to look like before it was made a stationary beacon type of thing... I also like to think of the souped up Avenger as the normal craft with additional sections attached for extra fuel and living quarters. That journey takes several days! they can't be expected to sit up through it and still perform well once they arrive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 Maybe the idea was to give you no idea as to the identity of the aliens. The first time through, just when you though you'd seen it all, another race would turn up... Sometimes you won't even meet all races when you play through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el freako Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Presumably the cover art section wasn't in touch with the game designers.I think they were partially in touch. I presume that the designers said that a main enemy was a sectoid and the artist thought that meant insectoid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrus Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 I think, that the artist, who had drawn the cover, was not from Mythos, but maybe was hired by Microprose, so he could be unaware of the particular aliens in the game, or even about the storyline etc. And it really looks like an insectoid (I mean this mysterious alien, not the artist). Or it is some prototype of Tentaculat. Maybe the designers had the ideas about including it in the game, but later had changed their mind. Maybe it's better to ask Julian (Gollop) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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