XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

 PlayStation 4
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7.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 149 Ratings

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  1. fulleto
    Nov 27, 2018
    0
    The PS4 version crashes constantly (although the game and the PS4 are fully updated. As a result, my autosaved games from the Iron-Man were deleted TWICE with no option to be recovered. A huge waste of time.
  2. lastevil8462
    Sep 24, 2017
    0
    that was very awful game I don't understand why xcom2 has been produce very bad action and very bad when I played this game I laugh that was very awful
  3. Winterpsy
    Sep 19, 2017
    2
    Absolutely love the game. Stunning new maps, exciting new mission types.

    But: for a reason performance on PS4 became worse. Stuttering, delay between video and audio, loading times are approx the same. This is why the mediocre score. EDIT: Been playing it for a longer time, and the performance issues became more obvious: -textures not loading correctly: i.e. 4 out of 10 times    Absolutely love the game. Stunning new maps, exciting new mission types.

    But: for a reason performance on PS4 became worse. Stuttering, delay between video and audio, loading times are approx the same. This is why the mediocre score.

    EDIT: Been playing it for a longer time, and the performance issues became more obvious:
    -textures not loading correctly: i.e. 4 out of 10 times character is missing the torso, limbs, or the environment missing patches of textures.
    -low res textures: sometimes game cannot load textures at all and falls back to low res versions
    -frame-rate drops: especially on the new type maps, its very bad.
    -end turn: time after you press the end turn is visibly slower
    -audio/video sync: console cannot handle the game, audio comes faster than it's video counterpart at the cutscenes
    -action cam: terrible frame rate drops when horde swarm appears.
    -loading times: this is the worst. you can get a shower between missions, loading times are so
    terribly long.
    -crashes: yep, they are there. 1 crash at every 5 missions.

    I decreased my original score from 6 to 2

    TL;DR: Gameplay, atmosphere is absolutely fantastic (dislike the fantasy-like chosen, with vibrant colors, would have preferred something more realistic without that cliche raspy-evil voice)
    Sadly performance cast a dark shadow over this. Feels like I am playing on a low end computer which still cannot handle the game. But it's a PS4, not a low end computer. Should be at least as good as the original game. But it became worse :(    … Expand
  4. keyholestyle
    Apr 25, 2018
    4
    I've tried finish this game twice. Once on PC another time on PS4. I just can't I don't understand how people could finish this game. I've finished XCOM enemy uknown twice and enemy within once but XCOM 2? how people finish that game?! that AVATAR project is happening too fast. you can try hard af but still it's going to end your story and those plenty of enemies on your 3 or 4 guys... OneI've tried finish this game twice. Once on PC another time on PS4. I just can't I don't understand how people could finish this game. I've finished XCOM enemy uknown twice and enemy within once but XCOM 2? how people finish that game?! that AVATAR project is happening too fast. you can try hard af but still it's going to end your story and those plenty of enemies on your 3 or 4 guys... One bad move of a square and 50 aliens going to kill you. This game have too many enemies on small area and long loading so you have to load every 5 minutes a game cuz of that legions of aliens killing your dudes all the time by not really your fault… Expand
  5. Brutal1ty512
    Sep 26, 2017
    1
    War of the Chosen is amazing add-on to already nearly perfect turn-based game. And god I’m trying hard to enjoy it. Game performance is beyond terrible. Very long loading times, framerate drops all the time, graphics glitches, bugs, etc, etc. Studio, responsible for the port, should be disbanded for total lack of competence, along with the genius, who suggested using their services afterWar of the Chosen is amazing add-on to already nearly perfect turn-based game. And god I’m trying hard to enjoy it. Game performance is beyond terrible. Very long loading times, framerate drops all the time, graphics glitches, bugs, etc, etc. Studio, responsible for the port, should be disbanded for total lack of competence, along with the genius, who suggested using their services after fail with original XCOM 2. I just hope patches are coming soon.… Expand
  6. Metempsychosis
    Sep 14, 2017
    3
    Amazing new mechanics, enemies and allies. I would give it a 9 or 10, but it's abysmal performance and glitches ruin the experience.

    Textures not loading everywhere, corrupt textures on maps, messed up particle effects, framerate drops all the time, choppy animations and camera movement. It's frustrating because I love everything about War of the Chosen, and I don't know if the problem    Amazing new mechanics, enemies and allies. I would give it a 9 or 10, but it's abysmal performance and glitches ruin the experience.

    Textures not loading everywhere, corrupt textures on maps, messed up particle effects, framerate drops all the time, choppy animations and camera movement. It's frustrating because I love everything about War of the Chosen, and I don't know if the problem is the PS4's capability, but I feel that as soon as these issues are patched the game is going to be near perfect.    … Expand
  7. metaldog
    Jan 6, 2018
    3
    Let's get positives out of the way first. Nice graphics, good atmosphere, believable characters and plot, some game mechanics and above all else, customization.

    Apart from that, it's a cheesy, borderline cheating piece of **** that will exploit each and every single turn to beat you down to the ground and keep you there. First mission on veteran (after the tutorial one that explains the    Let's get positives out of the way first. Nice graphics, good atmosphere, believable characters and plot, some game mechanics and above all else, customization.

    Apart from that, it's a cheesy, borderline cheating piece of **** that will exploit each and every single turn to beat you down to the ground and keep you there. First mission on veteran (after the tutorial one that explains the story): I hit the landing zone with a team of four rookies. I start sending them forward. One of them voluntarily runs through the flames, setting herself ablaze (a character I spent 15 minutes customizing, wonderful), then dying in flames 2 rounds later. Game then tells you to use a knife on one of the enemies so I proceed to using aforementioned skill on the highlighted enemy, kill him and my guy suddenly finds himself on an open field. The game spawns 3 additional enemies, right in front of him. The poor guy, without any cover, dies in one hit from one of the aliens. Third member of the team panics from seeing it, runs towards the enemy and gets shot down. I'm down to the last man, who takes cover at the beginning of the mission, too far away to do any meaningful damage to anyone and with 3 turns to defuse a bomb and kill 6 bad guys along with 2 reanimated enemies.

    All this in first mission.

    You really don't want to know how easily I failed the second mission for about 3 times in a row.    … Expand
  8. Lasthonestman
    Jan 10, 2018
    4
    I played the first xcom on PlayStation now over the last week and loved it so much I went out and bought xcom 2. I don't know what happened to the game from then to this, but it's too difficult to be fun. I love chess and grew up on Warcraft 1-3. I'm no stranger to strategy and am pretty good at these types of games. But this game is just dumb luck, and the loading times break the game.I played the first xcom on PlayStation now over the last week and loved it so much I went out and bought xcom 2. I don't know what happened to the game from then to this, but it's too difficult to be fun. I love chess and grew up on Warcraft 1-3. I'm no stranger to strategy and am pretty good at these types of games. But this game is just dumb luck, and the loading times break the game. People say the first is harder, but some of these enemies in this one are ridiculous. The lizard guy who grabs you through walls.... why? If you liked xcom but thought it was insanely easy and you should've had a timer going to make sure your strategies are rushed then this is the game for you.

    Pros: graphics decent
    Good atmosphere
    Creative design

    Cons: load times
    Difficulty on rookie is insane
    They give you a bunch of cool stuff to upgrade and then spend your whole time **** on any hopes you had of playing the game the way you want. It's kind of like real life. So there's no escapism to be found    … Expand
  9. Jaddel
    Jul 27, 2021
    1
    What a **** game... XCOM 1 was beautiful, but this game is a big shame... buggy as hell and unbelievable unfair..
  10. jdawg135
    Sep 27, 2017
    2
    This has the potential to be the greatest iteration of XCOM that was ever made. Then proceeds to drop the ball, only it's a bowling ball, right in your lap.

    Atrocious graphic artifacts everywhere, horribly choppy and glitched out animations. The longer you play, the more lagged out, glitchy and crashy the game becomes. If it patches, go for it, otherwise I wouldn't recommend touching    This has the potential to be the greatest iteration of XCOM that was ever made. Then proceeds to drop the ball, only it's a bowling ball, right in your lap.

    Atrocious graphic artifacts everywhere, horribly choppy and glitched out animations. The longer you play, the more lagged out, glitchy and crashy the game becomes. If it patches, go for it, otherwise I wouldn't recommend touching this with a 9 foot pole.    … Expand
  11. Bioware-Critic
    Nov 17, 2020
    4
    The War Of The Chosen DLC of XCOM 2 should enhance the game and make it better.
    It does enhance the game but not by much. And I have to say:
    The bugs were never worse and more prevalent and the game now crashes at least three times as often - on PS4 of all platforms! How does a developer manage to optimize a game on unified hardware so badly that it performs this BAAAAAAD?! XCOM 2 on    The War Of The Chosen DLC of XCOM 2 should enhance the game and make it better.
    It does enhance the game but not by much. And I have to say:
    The bugs were never worse and more prevalent and the game now crashes at least three times as often - on PS4 of all platforms! How does a developer manage to optimize a game on unified hardware so badly that it performs this BAAAAAAD?!

    XCOM 2 on its own feels like a second rate indie-title which tries very hard to look like a double-A title. Since Firaxis should earn enough with this franchise to be at least able to polish it ten times as much as they seem to care for and they should be able to hire people who at least know what is fun for people to use, not just to play ;) - the engine delivers a very messy performance and the UI is a total catastrophe on every level - I am astounded that these guys are still in business. I have to say!
    Since NONE of XCOM 2's more pressing issues were adressed with this title and no bigger changes made AND Firaxis manages to worsen the performance of the engine overall ... THIS DLC REALLY SHOULD NOT EXIST! PERIOD!

    Well, if Firaxis is planning on making a third entry to this franchise ... they should start from scratch! This is quite honestly intelligence-insulting. Nothing more. If you make a game for people who like to think and plan ahead, you should at least try and make something that people who pay attention to detail can enjoy. Instead of rubbing EVERYONE the wrong way, dear ... "Firaxis" ;)    … Expand
  12. brewistmonk
    Oct 5, 2017
    0
    Game was somewhat stable for half a campaign then crashed about every other turn. Don't bother getting this. it is not playable to the end as far as I can tell. Will wait to see when it is fixed. Complete garbage for now.
  13. Alexrouz
    Apr 20, 2022
    1
    I have played this game for over 50 hours. At first I loved this game for the setting, level design and soldiers, I considered this game to be good and that it would become one of my favorites even then. But with every 5 hours of playing, I learned how terrible the gameplay of the game is and that this is one of the worst games I have ever played. Spoilers are minimal. 1) Even afterI have played this game for over 50 hours. At first I loved this game for the setting, level design and soldiers, I considered this game to be good and that it would become one of my favorites even then. But with every 5 hours of playing, I learned how terrible the gameplay of the game is and that this is one of the worst games I have ever played. Spoilers are minimal. 1) Even after releasing a large-scale addition to the game, the developers did not remove the huge randomness in shooting, when the machine gunner at point-blank range in 1-2-3 cells has a low chance of hitting and how miserable it looks in the game when he misses a huge alien that is standing right in front of him. 2) Bugs. They are everywhere. Bugs with shooting animations, bugs when the game is paused when there is a lot of shooting from spectator modes, bugs with grenade explosions, bugs with the abilities of the chosen ones, bugs when using engineers in the power relay. What the developers were doing preparing the addition to the game is unclear. 3) Stealth. It doesn't work normally. When successfully using stealth and bypassing enemy points, patrols at some point begin to go towards the player for no reason, and this happens all the time during missions with penetration to specific points. No logic, no development. Complete failure of the mechanics. 4) The worst is the sequence of moves, which is not reset if you are given an additional move of the last soldier for killing (for example), but the game does not allow you to do this and at that moment a plot event occurs (for example, the resurrection of the chosen one) and the game takes your turn, making a full one progress in the opponent's event, and you get back your half-one move left only for moving. As a result, the enemy makes literally 2 moves, until you absolutely could not do anything and this one does not depend on you in any way. Worst turn based game design I've ever seen in the history of gaming. 5) There is absolutely no tactics. It all comes down to random whether the enemy will hit through the cover / pass the stun / miss. The computer opponent does both completely stupid actions and brilliant ones at the same time, absolutely killing all the seriousness of what is happening, which you look at with laughter. Perhaps this is normal if you play on a low difficulty and score on logic and realism, but this is not interesting for experienced players. 6) Terrible development of the fog of war, when, for example, the Wanderers are close to Advent (which they also attack as a player), but until you open the fog of war, they just stand still and do nothing. And as soon as you opened it, they begin to act and then ignore the fact that they are point-blank to the enemy. They begin to stupidly run around and it looks like a clownery. And such missions also start in stealth, which absolutely destroys your tactics, since they can accidentally run out at the moment the fog of war opens and run out to you (although they break down exactly on the opponent of Advent according to the mechanics of the game when you are still in stealth). Summing up, I will say that this is only part of the problems and not all that terrible that is in the game design of the game. The game has a lot more problems and is more offensive just because the game initially seems good due to the setting and the design of the squad with the levels of locations. To bury such potential with such terrible gameplay I have never seen. I don't recommend anyone to play this… Expand

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93

Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. GameCritics
    Feb 5, 2019
    90
    While the game doesn’t run optimally (some framerate chugging and stutters are quite prevalent, especially in areas with a lot of special effects) the upgraded, enhanced formula that XCOM 2: War of the Chosen offers is absolutely superb. I was fully engaged in this rebellion against humanity’s extraterrestrial overlords, and I’d have no hesitation recommending it to anyone in search of a top-tier tactics experience. And for those, like me, who bounced off of the original XCOM 2? It’s absolutely worth coming back.
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  2. PlaySense
    Oct 4, 2017
    85
    Developers worldwide, pay attention: this is how you do DLC. As innovative as it is addictive, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen not only manages to meet expectations... It thoroughly exceeds them.
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  3. PlayStation Universe
    Sep 22, 2017
    90
    War of the Chosen overhauls the already fabulous XCOM 2 and turns it into absolutely essential fare. The introduction of the Chosen, the soldier bonding system, and the photobooth mode, are perfect additions in that they amplify the base game’s best qualities. It’s just a shame the shine is dulled ever so slightly by a bunch of needless technical issues.
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