XCOM® 2

X-COM 2 is a direct sequence for the first game, where everything went wrong and you actually lost the battle to defend earth. Weird direction for me in this sense but okay. Some time have passed, and now you are on the front as commander again. The game is very intuitive, and it's easy enough learning how to play. Most battles as a begginer will likely be a disaster so take everything with a lot of caution and protect your soldiers the best you can on the battlefield. I'ts a very good tactical game, where you are a operator for a team that you buid from the scratch and i'ts good to see how story progress while you do the missions.

If you played XCOM EW and tought the sequence would improve everything was good in the prevoius game, you're wrong. This game is quite frustrating. I'll try to be brief. BAD POINTS: - Game is very difficult, aka unfair, even on the easiset difficult. - It has a lot of new things, but the game just spills it over you, it turns quite confusing to undestrand and learn what each thing means. - Game introduces "conceal", which is a stealth mode. The problem is the game simply forces you to use it as much as you can, cause once the enemies sees you, hell is open to burn. - New enemies pop up everytime, they always hide behind full cover, which lower your hit chance by 40% (yes, 40%!) and they always hit you and kill your mates (Snipers are no great deal in this game). - You will Reload game many times, since end up a mission with all squad alive is the greatest challenge of the game. - Ridicullous smal interface. Reading texts on this game is annoying, cause its so small, you have to force your eyes to see things. It has a superior design to the previous game, but the icons are so smal, why God why?? - For some reason the game is heavy (graphics are better than XCOM EW, but no that much), you better have a good hardaware if you want to play smoothly with no lag or small fps. - In short: units that pop up all the time, annoying mind controlling alliens that control your mates from very far, enemies that always hits you, even kilometers away, in lower ground, enemies that use grenades and snakes that always grab you squadmate, no matter how far. Oh, and the best: 90% of the time your squad miss the reaction shots. Simply put: too many enemies, that are powerfull vs your simple 4-slots squad, with poor equipment. The previous game had the almost all the same annoying things, but was way more fun than this one. It was fair. This one doesn't care for that. GOOD POINTS: - Graphics are nice, a bit better then before. - Face models and customizations options improved.

The whole XCOM franchise has been my favorite from the first time I fired up Enemy Unknown back in the mid '90s. When you say "turn-based tactical combat," it sounds contrived, artificial. Anyone who has participated in combat, real or simulated, knows that there is nothing remotely orderly about it. Yet XCOM, with its destructable environments, defensive fire, variable cover states and the like gets it right to the point that XCOM is no longer just a franchise, it is a genre. Sure, there have been a couple of hiccups along the way (looking at you, XCOM Enforcer), but all the greats in every field have stumbled once or twice. It's what makes them "human" for want of a better word. XCOM2: War of the Chosen is, for my money, the pinnacle of the franchise so far. This is my "desert island" game, and if I have to pedal a bicycle-generator to make it work, so be it. High points are, as I mentioned, the destructable environments. You never know when something is going to blow up in your face. The fog of war is beautifully modeled; want to know what's lurking down that alley? Send someone to have a look! The promotion system for high-performing soldiers gives it an RPG feel, and the R&D you do on captured alien equipment keeps the game fresh and evolving. Often copied, never equalled, there is truly nothing else like it. I'll close with two quotes whose originators I've sadly long since forgotten. First comes from a gaming magazine from the '90s referring to the original version: "If you aren't playing XCOM, you aren't really a gamer, you're just some guy with a computer." Second refers to XCOM2 (vanilla) and is one of those dozens of quotes that get thrown up during various loadscreens and trailers: "We're going to be playing this game forever!" Most of the versions are here on GoG at quite reasonable prices. Stick your toe in the water, and WHEN it convinces you, take the plunge. I promise you won't regret it!

awesome classic

this game set the strategy standar and for good, its more than a game a experience