Legacy
The success of the game resulted in several sequel and spin-off games, as well as many unofficial remake and spiritual successor titles, both fan-made and commercial. Julian Gollop himself designed the third game in the X-COM series, X-COM: Apocalypse, also developed together by Mythos Games and MicroProse and released in 1997. The game also received an unofficial sequel in the 1997 expansion set Civ II: Fantastic Worlds for MicroProse's Civilization II, in a scenario set on the Phobos moon of Mars. During the late 1990s, MicroProse was developing a cancelled quasi-reboot game, X-COM: Genesis.
The Gollop brothers' ambitious attempt to create their own independent, 3D quasi-remake, The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge, was cancelled in 2001 due to financial problems and a failure to find a publisher, resulting in the bankruptcy of Mythos Games (resources from the unfinished game were then bought by a Czech company Altar Games and turned into UFO: Aftermath, which was followed by two sequels). Julian Gollop's new company, Codo Technologies, released two low-budget tactical games similar to the Battlescape mode of Enemy Unknown in both gameplay and plot, Laser Squad Nemesis (2002, retitled in Poland as UFO: Gniew Boga) and Rebelstar: Tactical Command (2005).
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