XCOM 2

blurryw's XCOM 2 (PC) review

Xcom Enemy Unknown... and then some

It's got all the joy of the first game with significantly more customization and replay value.
Ever since I beat Xcom EU on normal I have stuck with playing any Xcom games on Ironman on hard.
It's brutal but it's damn fun. The thing that wears this down in Xcom EU is the recycled maps, the lack of customization and the repeating mission types.
Xcom 2 spices that up significantly and makes it a lot more 'roguelike' to start a new game up and take your shot at saving the world all over again.

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Technical Issues Hurt an Otherwise Fantastic Sequel 0
XCOM 2(PC) by cav829 on February 18, 2016
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Why adjust the difficulty slowly when you can just crank it up to 15 0
XCOM 2(PC) by oneupthextraman on November 03, 2020
It feels like they cranked the difficulty up to 15. I only completed the first few missions, and I always lost at least one member of my team. Sometimes two. And I am not running around like rambo trying to blow everything up. I feel like I am severely out gunned in the first few missions, and I just don't have the energy to deal with this many enemies that can cause that much damage from that far away. I might change my review later if I can get further, but I doubt it. I tried turning down the...
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