XCOM: Enemy Unknown puts you in the shoes of the main commander behind the XCOM project, established in the year 2027, responsible for responding to and ultimately dealing with the recent alien incursion on the planet Earth. As commander you have two primary tasks, the first of these involves watching over and providing orders to a squad of soldiers assigned with activities by you ranging from responding to abductions, investigating UFO crash sites and assaulting alien bases.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown rebooted the series back in 2012, and has since inspired numerous new strategy game series to be born.
If someone gets into this I'd recommend getting the enemy within version. It's got all the dlc included so it's the better version. Wish the author would've atleast mentioned it. I didn't see it.
Fantastic game though. Xcom 2 is top notch also. I've spent countless hours in these games.
There are few things more gratifying in gaming than skillfully turning the tide of a conflict. And few genres provide as many opportunities to abruptly reverse the odds via skill and forethought as tactical strategy. To be sure, we are more often than not talking about turn-based tactical mobile games, specifically titles in line with the iconic landmark series (XCOM and Jagged Alliance) that made the genre a genre.
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