Published: 2016-02-26, Author: Bruno , review by: Techreport.com
Few games have left me as conflicted as XCOM 2 when it's come time to issue a verdict, so I'll drop two instead. On the one hand, XCOM 2 is a fun, addictive, fast-paced game that remains mostly within the bounds of the previous installments in the series...
Abstract: After Firaxis revived the long-dormant XCOM franchise by way of the stunning return to form that was XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the big question in the minds of fans eventually became “So, what's next?” While the original X-COM: UFO Defense was a ground-breakin...
XCOM 2 is a bigger, deeper and more replayable follow-up to the successful 2012 reboot that, despite some technical issues, should provide hours of fun to fans of the series...
Published: 2016-02-16, Author: Matt , review by: wargamer.com
Abstract: Strategy games are, at their roots, just logic puzzles. It doesn't matter how much story or graphics or complexity you throw on top. All that does is disguise the puzzle and make it harder and more interesting to crack. So, like all puzzles, they have sol...
Published: 2016-02-10, Author: Chris , review by: gaming-age.com
Abstract: Twenty years have passed since the conclusion of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and we lost. The alien menace has convinced the XCOM council to join them, now calling themselves Advent. Advent has completely taken over the world promising advanced tech, medicine an...
Published: 2016-02-09, Author: Steve , review by: gamezone.com
Abstract: XCOM 2 is a sequel to the 2012 Game of the Year XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Enemy Unknown brought life back to the Tactical RPG genre and XCOM 2 did nothing short of raising the bar even higher. XCOM was, before 2012, a series nobody had heard from in years. Fir...
Published: 2016-02-07, Author: Mark , review by: overclock3d.net
When you crank XCOM 2 up to the max the game is super demanding, giving even today's flagship GPUs a hard time at a resolution of 1080p. Thankfully the game scales very well to lower end hardware, easily achieving average framerates of 90+ on our R9 380...
Abstract: I used to be the slowest XCOM player on Earth. Then XCOM 2 happened.Originally run 2/5/2016You know the type. Hell, you probably are the type. I played previous XCOM games in inches, not miles. I'd move my characters forward a few spaces, hunker down behi...
