Do you give your support class soldier the ability to lay down suppressive rifle fire or heal more times during a mission? Do you give your rocket carrier more missiles to launch or increase the effectiveness of the missiles he/she already has? At each promotion you’re faced with a choice. You manage a base of operations and an army of troops as you take on missions with a strike force of four to six hand-selected recruits.Īs you play through missions and amass extraterrestrial kills your recruits gain experience and receive promotions, unlocking new active and passive abilities along with stat increases that make them more efficient in combat. You’re thrust into the commander seat of a multinational organization dedicated to saving the human race from total annihilation after it encounters a hostile alien force dedicated to taking over Earth. As anyone who’s played the game long enough to rocket through the abnormally sized skull of a Roswell-inspired alien foe can attest, the consistent graphical fidelity is only the first of small attentions to detail that sets X-COM: Enemy Unknown apart from similar titles.Īt its core, the game is incredibly simplistic. Considering the game’s fondness for character and enemy close ups, this could’ve easily alienated gamers and turned many people off of XCOM within the first few minutes. The difference between low and ultra is so minute you’d be hard pressed to see notable differences even during a side-by-side comparison. In a day-and-age where gamers are punished for playing on laptops with pixelated poor graphics that make many rethink playing popular titles if they can’t at least see a decent framerate on medium, XCOM sets a shining example of low quality graphics done right.
On the surface it may seem like your average niche title, meant for the small population of gamers willing to persist through elongated strategic campaigns and painfully slow progression, but in truth it’s anything of the sort. Sitting at a healthy 95% rating out of 25,520 reviews on Steam, XCOM: Enemy Unknown is undoubtedly one of the best tactical turn-based strategy games of the past five years you probably haven’t played.
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