Sid Meier is one of the most ambitious and brilliant game developers to ever live. Upon his entrance into the video game industry he created now one of the most highly regarded development teams in the industry, Firaxis Games. Since then, Firaxis has arguably mastered the art of the strategy game and no matter what it is they release, it never ceases to give us hours upon hours of brilliant gameplay that creeps into a part of our brain and just forces us to not stop playing until the sun has rose for another day. Firaxis’ newest adventure, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, does not break that mold as it brings together global struggles and foreign invaders into one nice little package.
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.
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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