Posted on: June 10, 2016
Games: 0 Reviews: 15
Despite the bugs, still a good sequel
If you're looking at this page, chances are you already know what's going on so I'll throw in something not so well known. First of all, the research tree is busted and if you research in a wrong order, you will NOT get to the end of the game, check some Wiki. Second, play it with OpenXcom engine for better performance and gameplay improvements. If you haven't played this game before, don't even think about taking on an alien base on your first attempt. Wait until you find one, research thermal shock launcher and get to the first stage of the base, where you can quite easily capture a live Tasoth (even before they start coming up regularly in USOs) and research mind control. It will be very worth the wait to train your soldiers to control minds because, otherwise you'll go nuts in the base, and save time ultimately. Also unless you REALLY need points, skip ship terrors, they take too much time, you can rack points up elsewhere on USOs). I like this sequel a lot despite its shortcomings as it expands in many ways, like more terrors, close up weapons, different alien bases and (much) tougher aliens, I mean, God, go and try to take on Biodrone, it has near 100% accuracy. A true challenge to a tactical mind.
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