The difficulty curve was warped the early game where you are fragile and weak proved the most challenging, if you survived that and built a squad of elite killing machines you could breeze through the later stages. Enemy Unknown and its expansion Enemy Within both fell into somewhat of a rut when it came to missions - explore this downed UFO, bust up this EXALT base, save these civilians from horrific Chryssalid impregnation.
Most of this improvement comes in the mission variety on offer. From quality of life enhancements to an in mission focus on the strengths of the mechanics, XCOM 2 learns from both the games that came before it and the thriving mod community that gave us the incredible “Long War” to streamline yet enhance the experience. Those who do enjoy suckling the teet of turn-based strategy will find in XCOM 2 the nectar of the gods. This is the kind of sequel that makes you wonder how you ever loved the original game and if you didn’t love its predecessor, well, even the most grandiose chocolate sundae ever crafted will still give you the sh*ts if you’re lactose intolerant. If the strategic focus of Enemy Unknown didn’t appeal to you then XCOM 2 won’t change your mind, though to say this is just more XCOM is terribly lazy and does a horrible disservice to the improvements and refinements Firaxis has made. You do this in the standard XCOM way: rolling dice to shoot at aliens in turn-based, squad-focused combat in between spreading too few resources across too many projects in your home base. It wouldn’t be sci-fi if that was all there is to the story, and XCOM 2 picks up with the remnants of the XCOM project rising to unite the remaining pockets of resistance, reveal the aliens as the scumbags they are and free humanity from their iron grip. Twenty years later, humanity lives comfortably but very much at the mercy of their seemingly benevolent alien overlords. Squaddie Tigh’s sacrifice was Commander Gollan’s lesson learned, and just like me Firaxis has learned plenty from the many successes and few unexpected mortar blasts of 2012’s game of the year contender XCOM: Enemy Unknown.Ĭontrary to how you may have experienced it, the XCOM forces lost the war of Enemy Unknown. One such fallen soldier, a balding, eyepatch toting Squaddie I named Saul Tigh, has inscribed on his memorial wall plaque, “Who knew those mechs had mortars on their back?” It also lets you extensively customise their appearance and give them detailed biographies, but it’s the epitaphs that are important here. XCOM 2 lets you write epitaphs for your fallen soldiers.
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