

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.

Or maybe not at all.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. I'm going to buy it eventually when it's like 10 bucks however long that takes. Why they put a timer on the campaign I will never figure out. Actually if you wanted Enemy Within too you'd pay the same for the two of them that you would for XCOM 2. which I will not buy for that singular reason. As you can tell by the reviews, most people like the first one more than the second.the second one is timed. I would not pay 30 bucks for it when they have the second one out already. I don't play it all the time, it's not that great it's cool but nothing you can't wait for unitl they do put it on sale.

What's messed up is currently they are selling the first game, that you have to buy to get Enemy Unknown for 30 bucks and the latter for another 30 bucks.very 's actually the early game and the way it should have been all 's one of my favorite games I'm glad I got both of them on sale.
