![]() Its a perfect way to get some extra levels notched up on your soldiers though this mission is one of the hardest to come out with little to no injuries or deaths. What ensues is easily one of the best missions in the game that sees your soldiers verse wave after wave of aliens until you can knock out their signal beacon and depending on the size of your recruited squad, can see you controlling upwards of 13 plus soldiers within the mission. You Vs The UFO: As you go about your way around the map, sporadically, a red UFO begins to hunt you down until it finally takes down your ship. The game play also offers a mix of above map viewing and 3rd person animation as the camera pans right into your soldiers when making an action that showcases off their look, style and props. Of the two, I found much more freedom to lay out my team when the round clock wasn’t ticking down leading to many many fatal errors. Some missions have you trying to extract a VIP within 8 moves while others have no such limitations allowing you to spend more time setting up excellent ambushes and ensuring your team make it out alive. Play Style and Speed: Offering a mix of standard objective turned based matches and limited move matches, the speed in which you play is surprisingly lightning fast though you do have a say in just how stretched out a mission can go. While you have little control over their eventual skill set (rangers to sharpshooters to grenadiers) you genuinely get feels when your soldier is injured or killed in a mission. The characters you create via the character pool are then randomly fed to you from the onset and then, depending how you assign them, will pop up either on your recruitment list or as VIP’s that need rescuing.Ĭharacter Familiarity: As it goes, by creating your team from scratch, you get a feel for your soldiers and become attached and build an intimacy with them as you send them out on missions and level them up. Hair options are plentiful with everything from wavy bobs to buns, shaved sides and fro’s and there’s even more included with the extra DLC packs though those looking to don their character with hair longer than shoulder length (aside from the ‘dirty ponytail’) will come up empty handed. The only negatives I found within this section would be the mass of ‘less than attractive’ faces and the fact the armor you build later on into the game all but dispose any clothing you clad your soldier out with at the start of the game. The inclusions of everything from hair style and color, race, skin color, outfit and armor options, upper and lower face props, full name and nickname, tattoos and face paint, nationality, face type and accent (there’s even two male and two female Australian accents) make this one of the best in-game character creations seen to date (I’d love to see this type of customization within a first person shooter multiplayer type game!). It’s what actually drew me to the game in the first place. The Character Pool/Character Creation: Almost a 10 out of 10. ![]() Let’s take a look at the great, the good and the bad of XCOM 2. ![]() Such is not the case with XCOM 2: Enemy Within ![]() Strategy, turn based based games, to me, are cumbersome and frustrating and just…well….slow. Perhaps that’s why it took me until now to discover the game?Īs someone who had never delved into the world of strategy based games, I was heading into XCOM 2 with hesitation. No Call of Duty-esque midnight launches, no major pre-order exclusive deluxe collectors edition, it just suddenly appeared. ![]() XCOM 2 took just on seven months to hit consoles after its initial PC release and came onto the console gaming market with little to no fanfare. It’s up to you, your crew on the Avenger and your soldiers to take them out and restore mankind. Character customization gets an A+ in XCOM 2Īliens have invaded Earth and under the guise of peace and unity – and with the help of some alien loving humans – are planning to overtake the human race. ![]()
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