XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Steam is demanding that I review this fourteen year old game. Alright, here's my review. XCOM Enemy Unknown and it's DLC Enemy Within AREN'T even close to the original X-COM. However, if you do buy it and want to get close to the original, install the Long War mod. Also, don't bother with the multi-player aspect, it was a waste of time even when the game was new and it's no-longer working at this point anyway. Now, to break it down. If you want it, buy it on sale if it's sub $5.00 or even $2.50. Install the Long War mod. It'll be about as close as you can get to the original X-COM. As to the DLC's, you can usually get the complete pack on sale.

My 3rd-year University project drew heavy inspiration from the XCOM series, but, up until recently, I'd only ever touched the game to check how the grid system worked. Now that I'm finished with University, with a 2:1 (yippee!), I thought it'd be nice to actually give the game a shot. Despite working on a TBS/RTS for over a year straight, I'm historically not their biggest fan. My only true exposure to them is Halo Wars. This meant I had a huge learning curve ahead of me, but again, I was willing to give it a shot. And I'm glad I stuck with it! As expected, the learning curve was steep. Managing even a small number of units proved a challenge. Dealing with the horrible RNG system was an even bigger one. But after a few missions, a few deaths, I started to get the hang of it. That's when I finally began to understand why people spend 100s, even 1000s, of hours in this genre. It's addictive. I didn't do everything there was to do, but I did reach the end, and considering how tough a time I was having at the start, I'm proud of that.

The game starts off as a standard but fun, turn-based, tactical game with randomly generated soldiers who you can customize and some simple base building/management. It quickly makes you feel that the alien threat is real and that, XCOM, your experimental anti-alien defense force has a big impact in the fight against them. The management aspect of XCOM becomes rewarding as you research, upgrade your base and develop weapons for your soldiers from alien corpses and items you pick up in the field. The randomly generated soldiers that you can customize become dear to you, as you assign them names, you watch them rank up, you award them medals etc. So when you are out on a mission with them and one of them is killed you will feel it in the depths of your soul. I am pleasantly surprised about how much I began to love this game. 10/10.

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I absolutely love this game albeit not as much as its sequel but omg the terrorist missions are actually awful, I just wanna shoot aliens not regular gunmen

Playing in 2026 and loving it. Definitely holds up. The sound of aliens getting blasted never gets old.

Game is great, HOWEVER, turn V-Sync off and turn framerate smoothing off, the game GIGA crashes if you don't leave it on. Final mission is also ass However, the rest of the game is very good so I still recommend :)