XCOM: Enemy Within has a lot of content to offer with various new items, new Foundry projects, improved performances, forty-seven new maps, and an expanded multiplayer environment. One of the best things about this new resource is the fact that it changes how the game can be approached from the go.
Add to the mix a brand new resource called meld players will be able to purchase new genetic and cybernetic enhancements which completely refresh the old content while pushing the new content into new realms of excellence. With over 70 unique missions around the world, the game feels massive, and each mission challenges the player’s creativity and puzzle-solving. The tactical turn-based and strategic aspect that made this shooter outstanding is still here. Gameplay-wise this title is very similar to its predecessor. Without delving into spoiler territory, the narrative of the game evolves into a big climax that delivers an action-packed Hollywood-like conclusion to the journey. The storyline evolves as players discover that the aliens have special powers and that they have been experimenting on humans. The mission then becomes to discover the next steps of the alien attack by capturing a live specimen. Players are then tasked with a commanding position within the unit and are responsible for managing XCOM headquarters while developing strategies for their soldiers in the turn-based combat missions throughout the game.Īs XCOM’s missions start to succeed and more information about the aliens, their anatomy, biologies are discovered, players realize that they are just the bottom of the alien ranks and that severe problems must be heading earth’s way. The Council of Nations united to create the XCOM, a military and scientific organization with humanity’s cutting-edge technology, and weapons tasked with defending Earth against alien attacks.
The game’s reception was overwhelmingly positive and seemed to please critics and fans at the time, the game was praised for its perfecting and improving its predecessor’s achievements while providing significant content added to it. However, this expansion grew so big that developer Firaxis Game and publisher 2K Games decided to release it as a standalone for PC, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 in 2013. XCOM: Enemy Within is a rare type of game since it is an expansion of a title previously released in 2012.
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