So, at the same time you react in the battle field with your special elite force, you must research whatever you recover from the alien encounters in order to progress through the game. The other half of the game, the strategic part, is where you try to understand what’s going on and need to figure out how to deal with the invading aliens, and find out what their purposes and secrets are in the hope to understand them better and take better action against them. Your mission in XCOM:EU is the same as in the original games: you must lead a secret organization called X-COM (or XCOM) and deal with an alien invasion of unknown origin and purpose, over a series of hostile encounters. Veterans can skip the next section and jump into “The Start”. So, first an introduction and some game description, especially for newcomers. XCOM:EU is a re-imagining version of previous X-COM games but it’s still quite a different game in itself, and deserves to be reviewed also by its own. However, I’ll do my best to keep the review completely meaningful even if you strip out all those references. So, expect a review filled with references to the original games. I’m a long time veteran and fan of the series. Now, as there are at least two types of gamers reading this review: people who played the original game (OG from this point forward) and people who didn’t, I thought it would be interesting to include some notes on the review on what’s new, different or removed from the OG as I go through.
The game mechanics stayed basically the same, but there are a few significant differences as well, as not unexpected. XCOM: Enemy Unknown from Firaxis Games and 2K Games is the new X-COM installment, and it’s a re-imagining version, or reboot, with a particular focus on the series’ first chapter.
These are science fiction real-time strategy games combined with turn-based tactics on an alien invasion setting. X-COM is probably one of the best sci-fi gaming series ever made for the PC, and no doubt one of Microprose’ most successful also. The series has many titles but sci-fi and strategy enthusiasts tend to elect the first three chapters as the best, namely UFO: Enemy Unknown (aka X-COM: UFO Defense), X-COM: Terror from the Deep and X-COM: Apocalypse. "Nothing like starting your day in the X-COM Geoscope room"
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