Eight video games to help prepare for the UFO balloon invasion

metro.co.uk:

. While it’s been suggested that they’re (whereas China says they’re just weather balloons), some suspect that they are, in fact, .After conducting some research ourselves (by which we mean we scoured for a few hours), we’ve come to the entirely rational conclusion that not only are they definitely alien but we’re on the cusp of a full-on balloon-themed alien invasion.You would’ve expected the first ever alien invasion to be a bit more dramatic than that but, regardless, you’d best prepare yourself, and the best way to do that is by playing through this curated list of video games.It’s literally called Space Invaders! Why would we not put this on the list? It may no longer be cutting edge, but Space Invaders is an all-time classic that’s already suitably prepared your parents and grandparents for the inevitable invasion.Admittedly, it does depend on the aliens moving slowly back and forth and making no attempt to get out of the way but then the balloons haven’t been doing that either.

We’ll also need to make sure we protect ourselves with only four barriers that are placed equidistant of each other. We want to give the invaders a fighting chance, can’t make it too difficult for them.This is an obvious one and no, we’re not just shilling it because it’s one of our favourite games ever.

(Okay, we are.) While it’s officially labelled as a strategy game, it may as well be a training simulator as you shoot down UFOs and then send out soldiers on missions to combat an invading alien menace, while using whatever resources are available to improve your base of operations.Granted, it’s high difficulty means you’ll need to become acclimatised to failure, as soldiers die due to your own poor decisions and bad luck. Also canonically