The Bureau is a homage to old school science fiction. Well dressed men who look like they walked off of the set of Mad Men with fedoras take on big eyed aliens with laser guns and flying saucers. The soundtrack harkens back to the Cold War, with a mixture of trombones, big band, and stern military themes alongside even a few tunes inspired by Westerns of the era. From propaganda posters plastered everywhere to the disarrayed remains of a town celebrating a victorious football game, the Sixties pervades through every pore of this game’s facets.
The situation becomes a waking nightmare as aliens attack. The President and majority of the US government seems to have been eliminated, leaving only disconnect groups of military forces to try and hold out as the aliens proceed to decimate the front line. You play as William Carter, a formerly desk-bound special agent with a tragic (and tragically cliché) back story as to why he’s been out of the game for a few years. You save the head of the agency after a brief tutorial that shows off what late-game rewards await your recruits, and then report in at XCOM base. One speech by XCOM Director Faulke later, and it’s officially up to you and your small team of agents to combat the greatest threat that mankind must never hear about.
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.
Phoenix point if I remember was created by the original xcom developer or something to that affect. I did try gears tactics some months ago and I just couldn't get into it. It's probably just me
It was, but it was really closer to the newer XCOM than the older ones. Gears Tactics was okay but was hard to get into knowing there probably wont be a sequel.
The help desk platform used by 2K Games for its customer support has been hacked, with malicious emails sent to certain players.
I was one of those users that got an email. Good thing I didn't open it. The email is from actual 2k support so I'm sure many people opened them. Scary stuff Take Two. You guys should invest some of your billions of dollars into some advancements for network security. I wonder who's getting hacked next at Take Two. First GTA 6 and now this.
Erin McAllister said
Summer camp at Hackett’s Quarry is ending and night is falling, but a small group of counsellors decide to capitalise on their van breaking down and have one last night of summer fun.
9.8? Was this review written by the game's lead designer?