Despite having lived through the seemingly horrific injustice or the failure in life that is associated with those who can say the phrase ‘I’ve never played Advance Wars’, I (Mark) can honestly say XCOM: Enemy Unknown and I are getting along just fine, despite a few of XCOM‘s personal problems. While I’ve never been particularly interested in turn-based strategy games that didn’t involve stupidly expensive plastic miniatures, XCOM took me by surprise.
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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