XCOM: Enemy Unknown Review

  POSTED October 24, 2012

Tension runs high in the excellent XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Click on Read More to check out The Good, The Bad and the critic scores.

• Tension-filled turn-based matches  
• Great sense of progression makes you feel increasingly powerful  
• Complex interconnected economy makes each decision important  
• Soldier perma-death gets you invested in the fate of your veterans.

• Map repetition  
• Camera foibles and other visual glitches.

8.5

Enemy Unknown packs dense amounts of dramatic tension into each turn. And so it's time to eliminate the alien threat, commander. Select a location, build your base…and save humanity.

82

The absolute best aspect of XCOM is the sense that there's never enough time or resources to do everything that needs to be done.