XCOM: Enemy Unknown

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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.

I loved the hell out of this game when it first released in 2012, and the Enemy Within expansion added a lot of cool stuff, although the human enemy faction in that was very half-baked. For someone new to the genre I'm sure it'd still work as a great entrypoint with its simplified mechanics and fairly slick presentation. But it has some flaws holding it back compared to other games in the series, such as the lack of procedural levels. The ones that are in the game look great, but even in a single playthrough you might run into the same levels multiple times and that's not so great. The simplified mechanics that make it a good entrypoint into the genre are however a bit too simplified to someone more familiar with it. The biggest sin being the hit chance only calculating on the targetted enemy/tile and not actually having missed bullets able to hit things that are behind the target and such. If you want something simple to get into, give it a try, for someone that wants a little more substance I'd recommend the original 1993 game or XCOM 2, the sequel to this one, which improved on this ones formula in almost every way.

I keep trying to get into this and can't, even though I have liked others of the same genre

XCOM — единственная игра, где 95% означает "иди HaXyЙ", а 20% — "тебе TTи3дa, ты труп, убью УБЬЮ!!!!". Спасибо разработчикам за очередной удар по моей самооценке и регулярные сеансы психологического насилия! Хотя это ещё не бочка с напалмом как во второй части... 12/10, поиграл с огоньком!

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 :)

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

The best turn based game ever made.