The player, resuming their role as the commander is now leading a resistance movement fighting a guerrilla war against the occupying aliens and their sympathisers. With their leader back, Earth’s resistance may just stand a chance. He has been imprisoned in suspended animation since XCOM fell two decades before. The game starts with a squad infiltrating an alien installation to rescue the commander, XCOM’s leader. It’s only fitting that Sid Meir’s Firaxis Games, the brains behind the king of turn-based strategy- Civilisation, should be the developers taking the classic franchise forward. In strategy circles, the XCOM series is royalty. XCOM 2 is the follow up to 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown, itself a reboot of 1994’s UFO: Enemy Unknown– a game that went on to spawn countless sequels with the XCOM (or X-COM) moniker. Whilst the battle may have been lost, the fight isn’t over. The will of the brave men and women of the Council of Nations Extra-terrestrial Combat Unit (also known as XCOM) where unable to defend against the alien invaders. For twenty years Earth has been ruled by its alien masters, known as The Elders.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |