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The thing is it was an awesome deal! If you pre ordered you got Spec Op: The Line, the whole XCOM series, and XCOM Enemy Unknown. Even if I ended up hating the Bureau I wouldn't be mad cause those are some great games. If it was just some bonus mission crap that is given on pre order then that I don't fall for. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified General Discussions Topic Details. Rubba100 Mar 20, 2015 @ 7:32am. The Bureau always crashing in the beginning!! Need support! The game always crashes right after the beginning when you enter the room where the airplane falls down through the roof. Tried 3 times and crashes directly before I go down the stairs. XCOM E3 2011 Trailer (XBOX 360, PS3, PC) Dailymotion. For You Explore. Do you want to remove all your recent searches? All recent searches will be deleted. Cancel Remove. Watch fullscreen. XCOM E3 2011 Trailer (XBOX 360, PS3, PC) Amparo Donovan. 4 years ago 17 views. XCOM E3 2011 Trailer (XBOX 360, PS3, PC).
TA Score for this game:Posted on 16 April 14 at 20:25, Edited on 17 April 14 at 06:27This review has 15 positive votes and 0 negative votes. Please log in to vote.The XCOM strategy game series about aliens invading Earth had a winner in 2012 with it first console adaptation, XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The series took a disappointing turn in 2013 with The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, but fortunately, XCOM: Enemy Within is here to give XCOM fans more of the game they know and love.XCOM: Enemy Within is not a new-from-scratch game; it is an expansion to XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
This means it's a bigger, better game with a lot of tweaks and new content, but a lot of it is exactly the same. You could think of Enemy Within as Enemy Unknown plus some DLC, and you wouldn't be too far off.
It is a standalone game, though, meaning you don't need to own or have played Enemy Unknown in order to play Enemy Within, and the achievements and save files are not interchangeable. If you haven't played either game, you can skip Enemy Unknown and go straight to Enemy Within. If you have played and love Enemy Unknown, I'm pretty sure you'll feel like Enemy Within has enough new and different content to make it worth your money.
If you played Enemy Unknown and didn't care for it, just skip Enemy Within, because they haven't made any fundamental changes in it that would make it appeal to you.Since Enemy Within is a standalone game, most of this review is written without assuming the reader is familiar with Enemy Unknown. The main differences between the base game and the expanded game are covered in the section, 'NEW CONTENT'I'm not going to give any story spoilers. My rule of thumb is, if it's on the outside of the box or covered in the in-game tutorial, it isn't a spoiler.GAMEPLAYYou play as the commander of XCOM, a military organization authorized by a Council of 16 nations to repel an alien invasion of the Earth. You have two main roles: manage XCOM Headquarters and command your soldiers on the battlefield.
You don't have an avatar that walks around and interacts with people; you play by giving orders and watching what happens.The HQ management part of the game is very important and very deep. You are given a pitifully small amount of resources and have to make tough choices about when and how to expand your base, what to research, how to equip, train, and develop your soldiers, and how to manage your air and space defenses. Do you want your science team to study the aliens and learn their weaknesses, or do you want them to improve your weapons or body armor?
Do you spend your money on training for your soldiers, or on better weapons for your fighter planes? And don't forget the Council. Each month, you'll get an allowance from the Council, but it's never enough, and you're under constant pressure to give them results. If you don't come through, Council nations will drop out, one by one.
If you lose eight nations, you lose the Earth and the game.When the aliens or Exalt - a human organization that is working with the aliens - do show up somewhere, you have to send a squad of your soldiers out to face them. You can send up to 6 soldiers per mission, and every soldier is different. There are eight ranks, from Rookie to Colonel, and five tactical classes: Assault, Heavy, Sniper, Support, and MEC Trooper.
Some soldiers have better aim, some can take more damage, and some are better at keeping a level head and following your orders when under fire. As you play, you will learn all of their names. (I can still remember the names of some of my soldiers from playthroughs of Enemy Unknown I made over a year ago.) Some of them are going to get wounded and will be temporarily unavailable for combat. In addition, you're going to put some through special training and/or surgeries to make them even better, and sometimes you'll have to send a soldier on a covert mission to spy on Exalt.
What this means is, at any given time, maybe six to eight of your soldiers could be unavailable, and you have to choose who's going to go out. (You can have as many as 99 soldiers in your barracks, but I've never played with more than 25 or so.) You also choose how to equip them with armor, small arms, grenades, medkits, etc.
Like HQ management, squad selection is extremely important. If you don't play smart, you'll lose the battle before it even begins.The combat is turn based. First, you position each member of your squad where you want them and, optionally, make any attacks you wish to make. Attacks with small arms - pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, and LMGs - have a hit percentage that's based on your distance to the enemy, the enemy's cover, and other factors. Grenade and rocket attacks have an area of effect. After you've moved, the enemy units take their turn.
Meanwhile, you have other objectives you have to look out for, such as recovering canisters of Meld - a substance required to perform genetic or cybernetic improvements on your soldiers - disarming a bomb, rescuing civilians, or escorting a VIP to your aircraft. There's little room for error in combat because, especially early in the game, one hit from alien fire can be deadly, and two hits usually are. If a soldier dies in combat, they stay dead, permanently. Even critical wounds can affect their stats permanently.
So be careful.If you've ever played any of the versions of Civilization, and a lot of the basic gameplay elements - research, building, turn-based combat, etc. sound familiar, they should. The XCOM and Civilization series were both originally developed by MicroProse.That's a lot of words about gameplay, but that's because gameplay is what XCOM is all about. The fun, the challenge, and the reward of the game are in mastering everything explained above. And the gameplay works brilliantly.
It's interesting, it's balanced, it's easy to follow what's going on, and it's never tedious. Winning battles is satisfying, as is launching a satellite over a nervous Council nation and seeing its panic level go down. The gameplay is so well-done that beating the game is usually followed by an urge to start a new game and do it all over again.STORYXCOM: Enemy Within is set in the near future (which may well be the recent past by the time you read this). On March 1, 2015, aliens suddenly arrive from space to start abducting and attacking humans. As you fight them, you learn more about them, their technology, and how to defeat them. You also have to deal with the human group, Exalt, who seems to be on the aliens' side.
You're assisted by your executive officer, Bradford; your head scientist, Dr. Vahlen; and your chief engineer, Dr. You're occasionally contacted by a spokesman for the Council, an unnamed man who keeps his face hidden.At first, you simply respond to the aliens and Exalt's attacks, but as the story progresses, you start to call more of the shots and complete campaign objectives on your own timetable. I guess it would be a spoiler to continue, so I'll stop there.Seeing as it is a strategy game, XCOM: Enemy Within does not have a deep story. The story in here is just substantial enough for you to make sense of all the management decisions you need to make and to give you a sense of progressing toward a goal. And for that, the main storyline does its job. At the end, most of your questions are answered, and you feel like the story is resolved.
The Exalt story, on the other hand, doesn't strike me that way. I've played through Enemy Within twice now, and I'm still not sure what Exalt was all about. Did I miss something? Similarly, one of the side stories, named Operation Progeny, left me wondering whether it was actually completed, or did I maybe finish the game before that story had a chance to get wrapped up.VISUALS/GRAPHICSIn discussing visuals and graphics, I again first qualify my assessment by saying that XCOM is a strategy game, and the visuals serve their purpose. They aren't great, but they aren't bad.
The characters, both human and alien, look fine. The scenery tends to be a little bland and repetitive. There are a few places where the visuals and the action are out-of-sync, such as when gunfire exits a barrel at a 90-degree angle and still hits the target. You can also find videos of an amusing glitch where soldiers go bald at the moment of their deaths. So, yes, they could have spent more time creating awesome scenery and stomping out all of the graphical glitches, but I don't mind playing the game just as it is, either.SOUND/VOICESUnfortunately, when it comes to sound, I cannot give my 'XCOM is a strategy game' disclaimer and still mean it.
There are some drawbacks when it comes to sound, and they do impair my enjoyment of the game. First is the music. It's not that any particular piece of music in the game is bad; I actually think some of it - like the tune that plays at the squad selection screen - is pretty cool. The problem is that it is so repetitive. There aren't any true songs anywhere in the game; there are just about four or five 16-bar loops of music that are used over and over.Some of the voices are also annoying. When there are English-speaking actors speaking in English, it's fine. The issues arise when foreign languages or characters are brought in; it usually sounds contrived and cartoonish.
The worst offender is the unique Chinese soldier, Zhang, who says everything in the most complicated and unnatural way possible, but with flawless English grammar and without any trace of an accent. It's like someone told the actor, 'We want you to sound like a foreigner speaking English, but without a foreign accent and without misusing any words.' The German Dr. Vahlen, played by a Brit actress trying to speak English with a German accent, is another bad voice job. Add to that the generic French female soldier with the Inspector Cleauseau-like accent who says 'Le boom!'
When firing rockets and the Spanish male soldier who has the over-the-top excitement of a Telemundo announcer, and I wish everyone would just stop talking. Oh, and I also don't understand why soldiers who undergo cybernetic augmentation start talking like robots. They aren't robots. It makes no sense!MULTIPLAYERIn multiplayer, you put together a squad of 1 to 6 units that you can customize. Units can be a mix of human soldiers (with or without genetic or cybernetic mods), aliens, and/or Exalt operatives. When you ready up, you're either put in a lobby where another player is waiting for someone to join, or you become that player who waits for someone.
When both players are ready, your match starts.Multiplayer is strictly 1 vs. I found it to be more difficult than single-player, because your turn is timed.
I also did quite a bit of waiting for another player to join the game. I suppose XCOM multiplayer is fun for certain people, but I'm not one of them. It uses only one part of the XCOM experience - turn-based combat - and leaves out all of the other things, like HQ management, soldier promotion, etc.
That I enjoy about the game.ACHIEVEMENTSXCOM: Enemy Within has 30 achievements worth 1000G. Most of them are earned organically by advancing through the campaign.
I unlocked 26 of them in my first two playthroughs without reading the Achievement list or any of the descriptions. You will definitely have to go out of your way for a few of them. Quite a few achievements require enemies or other situations that only appear in certain missions, and are therefore missable. There are no cumulative achievements, and there are no multiplayer-specific achievements.
(In fact, I don't believe any of the achievements can be earned in multiplayer.) You could earn all of the achievements in one playthrough if you planned well and reloaded saves a few times when you had to. I can't imagine anyone wanting to play this game only one time, though.DIFFICULTY/REPLAYABILITYThe replay value of XCOM: Enemy Within is through the roof, thanks largely to the various difficulty levels and advanced settings.
There are four base difficulty levels - Easy, Normal, Classic, and Impossible. As difficulty increases, not only do the enemies get more numerous and harder to kill, but your soldiers' stats conversely get lower. On Normal, at the beginning of the game, you can usually kill the enemies with one shot, the shots are easy to make, and your soldiers can usually survive one hit. On Impossible, your Rookies can't hit jack squat. If they do luck out and hit an enemy, it only weakens it, and if the Rookie gets hit once, they die.
Not only is combat harder at higher difficulty levels, but research takes longer, facilities cost more, UFOs are harder to shoot down, and Council nations' panic level grows faster.If you still want a challenge, you can enable some of the 'Second Wave' options that make the game even more difficult and less predictable. For example, you can make it so that each satellite you launch costs more, or the psionic gift - a form of telepathy that levels the playing field vs.
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The aliens toward the end of the game - is rarer. With more than a dozen different Second Wave options to choose from, you will never run out of ways to challenge and torture yourself.And just when you think you have mastered XCOM, there's another mode that changes everything. It's called 'Ironman.' In Ironman, the game autosaves after everything you do, in HQ or on the battlefield. If your whole squad gets wiped out during a mission, or even if just your favorite soldier suffers a critical wound, you can't reload from an earlier save. You're in Ironman mode; there's no going back.
You either suck it up and try to hold the aliens off with what you have left, or you ragequit and start a new game. Try Ironman for the first time and then tell me you've mastered XCOM.There's only one thing that mars replayability, which is that on any given map, the enemy spawn points are fixed. Succeeding at higher difficulties doesn't necessarily mean that you're making smarter choices, it just means that you know what's going to happen because you've played that map enough times to know. When I blind fire a rocket into a certain spot only because I know that's where three Thin Men always hide, I feel like I'm cheating, but players who don't take advantage of such knowledge on Classic or Impossible difficulty have little to no chance of success.ESRB RATINGThe game has an M rating for blood and gore, strong language, and violence. The violence is a given.
A lot of people and aliens get hurt and die. The blood and gore is not very realistic or intense, in my opinion, but there are moments that some players may find disturbing, like. When an alien force feeds one of its eggs or larvae into a human victim, then a creature subsequently bursts out of the victim's chest.As for strong language, Bradford says 'hell' and 'ass' occasionally. According to the ESRB, there are F-bombs and S-bombs in the dialogue, but I've never heard them.NEW CONTENTAs explained at the beginning, XCOM: Enemy Within is an expansion to XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
It has new missions, a new enemy faction, and new aliens. It also has a lot of tweaks to some existing features. I won't go over the whole list here, but I'll tell you about the ones that were the most important to me.The biggest change is the addition of Exalt.
You will face them in battle several times. They are essentially a shadow XCOM and have similar capabilities, i.e.
Heavy, Assault, Support, Sniper. You have to keep the pressure on Exalt by sending one of your soldiers to spy on them and collect intel from them, otherwise, they will sabotage XCOM. The missions where you extract your undercover operatives are fun; you get to control 7 soldiers - 6 regular ones, plus the operative, who is in street clothes and armed with just a pistol.Meld is a new substance that is found primarily in alien abduction and downed/landed UFO missions.
The more Meld you collect, the more you are able to enhance your soldiers either through gene therapy or cybernetic augmentation. This is one of the best enhancements to gameplay. First of all, if your standard approach to alien abduction and UFO missions is to creep up slowly on the aliens and bore them to death with overwatch, you'll have to adjust your tactics, because Meld canisters self-destruct if you don't get to them quickly enough. Second, the addition of gene therapy and cybernetic enhancement gives you even more options to customize your soldiers.
It also makes managing your barracks more interesting, because all of these surgeries and enhancements take your soldiers out of commission for a time. Between surgeries, the infirmary, PSI training, and covert operations, your soldiers can get spread pretty thin, so having depth in the barracks is more important than ever.The tweaks to Enemy Unknown show that the developers have put a lot of effort and care into improving their product without changing its essence.
You can do a lot more with your soldiers, like customizing their spoken language and armor color, and you can even award medals to them. A decorated soldier's stats improve slightly in certain situations. Unlike promotions, which are still based on a soldier's XP and are out of your control, you and only you decide who gets medals. I like that.A few of the soldier skills have been rebalanced, most notably Snap Shot vs. Squad Sight for snipers. In Enemy Unknown, Squad Sight was always a no-brainer for me, but in Enemy Within, Snap Shot is actually a viable, maybe even preferable, choice. Also, what used to be called the Deep Pockets ability for Majors in the Support class is now available as a Foundry project for every non-augmented soldier, regardless of rank.
The Support Major's Deep Pockets skill now gives them an extra dose of consumable items. These changes mean your Heavies can carry up to four grenades (or two grenades and another item, like a S.C.O.P.E.), while your Supports can administer four doses of medikit spray plus four zaps with the arc thrower.My two other miscellaneous favorite tweaks are that anything - enemy, friendly, object, or cover - that will be blasted by a rocket or grenade's area of effect is now highlighted in red, and that some of the new-player-oriented nagging from Bradford (e.g. When using the Gray Market) and Vahlen (when blowing things up) can be suppressed. Unfortunately, the game has added some new nagging from Vahlen, and it is not only not suppressible, but she never stops, no matter how many times you take the same action. (I hope someone got ripped a new one over that, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it fixed with a title update.)OVERALLXCOM: Enemy Within combines a classic story of alien invasion with outstanding gameplay and a variety of difficulty levels that can keep a player interested and challenged for dozens of replays. It is recommended for anyone who enjoys strategy games.
It has enough new content and tweaks to be a good value for players who enjoyed XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The story and visuals are basic, but are enough to carry the strategy element along and keep it enjoyable. The multiplayer is limited, but will nevertheless appeal to some. The only real weaknesses are in the area of sound and voice acting. Still, these weaknesses are not worth a full star, and I don't give half-star ratings. A game doesn't have to be perfect to deserve five stars, it just has to be excellent, and XCOM: Enemy Within is both excellent and deserving.
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