XCOM 2

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7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 518 Ratings

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  1. megapro
    Oct 3, 2016
    3
    The game is awesome. Great graphics, music, sound, characters... Fun to upgrade and fix with your base. Good enough story. But, it really tests your patience when it comes to waiting. It's fast in the beginning but a few hours in it takes forever to load a mission. This really lowers the score. Also, the controls are not the best, but they work.
  2. OortCloud
    Jan 2, 2017
    3
    I played and loved all the original XCOMS plus the first reboot and loved them. I've played this for 20 hours now and am going to sell it because...

    1) Load times are huge. 2) The campaign map is a confusing mess of poorly described events etc. 3) Its way too difficult, requiring constant reloads (remember 1 people). 4) Most missions have very brief time limits meaning you must    I played and loved all the original XCOMS plus the first reboot and loved them. I've played this for 20 hours now and am going to sell it because...

    1) Load times are huge.
    2) The campaign map is a confusing mess of poorly described events etc.
    3) Its way too difficult, requiring constant reloads (remember 1 people).
    4) Most missions have very brief time limits meaning you must charge about. This makes the slow tactical overwatch-style assaults often impossible.
    5) Avatar project and dark events nonsense seems unavoidable,so you never feel like you are doing very well or have any kind of control - even though you save and reload 15 times until you get lucky on every mission and get out alive. (again remember 1).
    Really disappointed, another great franchise milked dry.    … Expand
  3. V1L3
    Jun 9, 2018
    3
    Do not play this game unless you are prepared to either be rewarded for being lucky, or severely punished for being unlucky. Although a piece of this game requires skill, the massive amounts of luck are unavoidable, making the game unplayable at times. If you manage to get lucky and don’t miss 90% shots, you may enjoy yourself while playing this game, can’t stand being punished for beingDo not play this game unless you are prepared to either be rewarded for being lucky, or severely punished for being unlucky. Although a piece of this game requires skill, the massive amounts of luck are unavoidable, making the game unplayable at times. If you manage to get lucky and don’t miss 90% shots, you may enjoy yourself while playing this game, can’t stand being punished for being unlucky? Avoid this game… Expand
  4. MARXENZOLOPES
    May 27, 2020
    3
    I can't understand the fun of this game, in addition to a very deceptive deceptive advertisement from 2K games
  5. BigMatchu
    Oct 10, 2016
    2
    It's not fun. This game is a steaming pile of **** and a waste of money. Gonna sell it...Game mechanics are sinply messed up and its not fun when you see youe team destroyed in just one turn
  6. Hyde_333
    Jun 28, 2018
    2
    I really wanted this game to live up to the first, but I am afraid it severely disappoints on many different levels.

    First off the melee combat is broken, and enemies can stab your soldiers through solid walls. Secondly, the overwatch penalties are too severe (yet these penalties dont seem to apply to the aliens, who can hit you with an overwatch shot almost every time from 900 yards)    I really wanted this game to live up to the first, but I am afraid it severely disappoints on many different levels.

    First off the melee combat is broken, and enemies can stab your soldiers through solid walls.
    Secondly, the overwatch penalties are too severe (yet these penalties dont seem to apply to the aliens, who can hit you with an overwatch shot almost every time from 900 yards) making it a very ineffective skill.
    In fact, the luck element of this game is its most prominent feature, and with enemies that can move from invisible to within attacking range (and attack (kill) you) whilst you are still in your turn, there is a high chance your soldiers will get repeatedly ganked with no other option but to reload the turn now that you know where the enemies will be.

    Great game if you like watching 5 minute loading screens, not so much for balanced yet challenging turn-based combat like the first.

    Oh, and hitting the touchpad auto ends your turn, no warning or anything. It is ridiculously easy to do and normally means you have to reload the game, which is highly infuriating.

    Glad I got this game on PSplus and didn't actually pay any money for it, appalling sequel.    … Expand
  7. Wigglesbury
    Oct 21, 2016
    2
    I really wanted to love this game. From UFO Defense to the new Enemy Unknown I've played them all over and over, and although the games have gotten worse over time, this one is the bottom so far. The idea is solid, and the research and engineering is good. Combat is cool, aliens are well designed. Even the learning curve for combat is excellent. The game itself is a buggy mess. It freezes,I really wanted to love this game. From UFO Defense to the new Enemy Unknown I've played them all over and over, and although the games have gotten worse over time, this one is the bottom so far. The idea is solid, and the research and engineering is good. Combat is cool, aliens are well designed. Even the learning curve for combat is excellent. The game itself is a buggy mess. It freezes, crashes, Ironman is almost unplayable. Near the end of the game I'm seeing a consistent 2-3 minute load screen after a level, followed by another screen with a mission summary with loading again. I might be a bit biased because I think the first few games killed the idea of overwhelming alien superiority and sent you into combat with 14 soldiers against 4 aliens and it was a tough go. Now alien superiority is 4 of you rolling 11 aliens right off the hop and it keeps getting easier. Anyway, all said and done, gameplay is solid, graphics are alright-ish with terrible collision and clipping problems, and wait times are disgusting.… Expand
  8. Lonit
    Sep 16, 2019
    2
    the timer in single player is really a deal breaker, it's so peopl don't take the time to get overpowered but it just adds too much stress, can't get the things done.
  9. egoBorder
    Jul 8, 2020
    2
    It breaks my heart to say it, but you should not play XCOM 2 on PS4. This version is so broken that unless you are supremely familiar with the game already and possess divine patience, you likely will not be able to complete the game. That's without even taking crashes into account, which can strike at any time regardless of your time with the game. Sad, because this is a great game butIt breaks my heart to say it, but you should not play XCOM 2 on PS4. This version is so broken that unless you are supremely familiar with the game already and possess divine patience, you likely will not be able to complete the game. That's without even taking crashes into account, which can strike at any time regardless of your time with the game. Sad, because this is a great game but unless the XBox version has a better reputation I suggest you stick to PC. I'm only rating the game a couple of points because if you really don't care about completing the game you could get this on sale just to have it on PS4, but I can't give them any more credit if the game is almost unplayable.… Expand
  10. warriorjoyaus
    Sep 12, 2019
    2
    Look it's a great game, but don't by it on the PS4.
    It crashes all the time, and the developer does not want to fix the problems.
    Buy it for the PC
  11. neetsky
    Feb 13, 2021
    2
    The game designers were too complacent leading to the failure of the game.
    That mission of New India is so disgusting. The difficulty suddenly became high. Enemies are laid out so fking much. Enemy turns can not fast forward or skip, very time-consuming.
    Your game designer's complacency is so fking disgusting. Hope it's your last game lol
  12. ameron
    Sep 17, 2022
    2
    The game is excellent as described. How ever be aware that on the PS4, as of 2022, the game crashes regularly on some levels. Making it almost unplayable on PS4.
  13. phoeniix23
    Jun 24, 2018
    1
    I remembered having a blast playing Xcom1 on PC. Finished the whole game and it was such a wonderful sense of accomplishment.

    So I was super happy to get Xcom2 on PS+ in June 2018. It started out great, just like how I remembered Xcom1 was. I was even impressed that it worked well on console as I thought the gameplay would be clunky without a mouse. However, after spending about 4-5    I remembered having a blast playing Xcom1 on PC. Finished the whole game and it was such a wonderful sense of accomplishment.

    So I was super happy to get Xcom2 on PS+ in June 2018. It started out great, just like how I remembered Xcom1 was. I was even impressed that it worked well on console as I thought the gameplay would be clunky without a mouse.

    However, after spending about 4-5 play sessions amounting to around 10hrs of gameplay, I was ready to throw my controller at the screen and one of my veins was about to burst. Xcom2 is crazy infuriating. I'm not a noob, and I'm not new to strategy games. The level of frustration in Xcom2 though was something I didn't expect. Bloodborne is fair. You know th mistakes were yours. Even Xcom1, I knew I made mistakes when I overcommit or misplaced my troops.

    In Xcom2 though, random **** just happens and I suddenly find myself in horrible situations, nothing to do with my troop placement. How do I know this? Cos I RELOAD the game each time **** hits the fan and each time I either try a new tactic or stick to the same path, weird random **** happens. I flanked an enemy soldier with 80% chance to hit, close distance with no cover and I frigging MISSED! WTF. Oh and the ALIENS. They're mind controlling everyone all the time and at random. My troops panicking at the worst times, which makes it super infuriating after carefully positioning them.

    Xcom1's difficulty progressed smoothly. I could feel the game's difficulty spike as I progressed through the game. But at the same time, I was also improving as a player and my squad was leveling up as well so the challenge felt manageable. The crazy high difficulty in the early game in Xcom2 coupled with just random **** happening just made this game unplayable for me.

    And the super long loading times didn't help. And base management felt convoluted this time. I remember enjoying managing my base and resources in Xcom1, and it felt more intuitive. Xcom2 however was more confusing and felt all over the place. Maybe they wanted to make it more story driven and cinematic as can be seen with the numerous cutscenes. I didn't really care for it cos the main gameplay was just so frustrating.

    And coming from Xcom1 when I believe Earth won, how the hell did the Aliens take over the world?! Doesn't make sense.

    TLDR: FAILED OPPORTUNITY. FRUSTRATING GAME    … Expand
  14. MaxPayneIsGod
    Sep 19, 2022
    1
    Egregiously difficult to the point of being unplayable.
    There's something fun hidden under hundreds of poor design choices.
    Don't waste your time.
  15. KAKAOSKOS
    Sep 3, 2017
    1
    Had fun at first, but then small bugs began to appear before my ironman run save file got deleted. This was right before Fireaxis openly stated that they will not be patching Xcom2 anymore... Fine, so I began a normal run, just to get some value back at least, but now suddenly the playstation 4 console freeze entirely whenever I startup the game.. This is a huge disappointment and wouldn'tHad fun at first, but then small bugs began to appear before my ironman run save file got deleted. This was right before Fireaxis openly stated that they will not be patching Xcom2 anymore... Fine, so I began a normal run, just to get some value back at least, but now suddenly the playstation 4 console freeze entirely whenever I startup the game.. This is a huge disappointment and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.… Expand
  16. Volsyden
    Apr 29, 2019
    1
    I have played a lot of stupid games in my life... this is one of them... this game is stupid hard and the balance is extremely broken. it got it for free and i want my money back.
  17. SidW
    Jul 3, 2020
    1
    1. Heavy loading
    2. Extremely bad balance, extremely hard, making players to load a lot
    3. Suspicious rate of action. When rate of hacking is 53%, after trying over ten times, none was successful. You know, this situation will happen only at 0.47^10, I.e. 0.05%. Can’t trust the rate or this dishonest game maker anymore. 4. Stupid bugs. One of my teammate was blocked from entering the new    1. Heavy loading
    2. Extremely bad balance, extremely hard, making players to load a lot
    3. Suspicious rate of action. When rate of hacking is 53%, after trying over ten times, none was successful. You know, this situation will happen only at 0.47^10, I.e. 0.05%. Can’t trust the rate or this dishonest game maker anymore. 4. Stupid bugs. One of my teammate was blocked from entering the new area. So in every new turn, I need to order him to stay without doing anything. Auto-save should happen in my turn but after loading some auto-save, enemies came. Etc.
    5.Worldview and art are good. 1 score for that.    … Expand
  18. Bishop61
    May 15, 2022
    1
    I think this is probably the best game I've ever played. It has so much replay value and is so fun. Excellent graphics. Normally, I would give this game a 5 star rating. However...that being said, I give it 1 star. Why?? Because the devs created a game with more bugs than the Brazilian jungle and then did NOTHING...I REPEAT... NOTHING...to fix those bugs. The game is almost unplayable.I think this is probably the best game I've ever played. It has so much replay value and is so fun. Excellent graphics. Normally, I would give this game a 5 star rating. However...that being said, I give it 1 star. Why?? Because the devs created a game with more bugs than the Brazilian jungle and then did NOTHING...I REPEAT... NOTHING...to fix those bugs. The game is almost unplayable. It's such a shame that the devs didn't care about the user at all. All they did was produce a faulty product and take in the money. They should be ashamed and not allowed to work in this career choice ever again.… Expand
  19. Bulbotrax
    Jun 16, 2018
    0
    probablly one of the most irritating game ever made... everything is bad in this crappy piece of garbage... All of the worst ideas are in this thing... The timer on every phases, congratulations... it is the dumbest idead ever...
  20. Incubation
    Jan 22, 2017
    0
    Buggy as hell, takes an age to load, frustrating gameplay that requires save/loading frequently, stupidly difficult. Play the original much more fun and better gameplay.
  21. thedaarkbatty
    Oct 5, 2016
    0
    Why is it getting such good reviews? It's nothing original AT ALL. It's basically Call of duty but with aliens this time. Shot an alien, rinse and repeat. NOTHING FUN.
  22. Eretik
    Nov 2, 2016
    0
    This game is not playable on PS4 due to terrible loading time 1:30 - 1:40 required to load your save! Unbelievable, just unbelievable. XCom 2 is strategy games and save/load is the only method to understand complicated game mechanics. Unfortunately for us, in XCom2 your gameplay almost exclusively consists from loading screen.

    Also random crashes are quite annoying.
  23. Moonfear
    Jun 5, 2018
    0
    This game is extremely dumbed down compared to original X-COM games, thanks got that it is part of PS+ and no money spent. And time limited mission? Good night tactics, time is running out.
  24. Lonitx
    Dec 2, 2019
    0
    the game wipe timer is a joke, makes the game no fun to play, maybe add a hard mode where it's active.
  25. ReviewThangs
    May 15, 2022
    0
    Unplayable. Bought it on the switch originally and it made cyberpunk 2077 look stable. So finally bought it on psn and ran is on a ps5, and it plays just as badly as the switch version. Couple that for a complete disregard for easing you in with your squads wiping even after going through YouTube videos on how to git good. Much better tactical rpgs out there like divinity or fire emblem.Unplayable. Bought it on the switch originally and it made cyberpunk 2077 look stable. So finally bought it on psn and ran is on a ps5, and it plays just as badly as the switch version. Couple that for a complete disregard for easing you in with your squads wiping even after going through YouTube videos on how to git good. Much better tactical rpgs out there like divinity or fire emblem. This game is a monument of poor performance and shocking it still runs this badly in 2022.… Expand
  26. gdrdydfjhgyi
    Feb 2, 2021
    0
    Ужасная игра. Вызывает только негативные эмоции. Графика убогая 1996 года. И при этом тормозит на максимальном разрешении экрана.
  27. Oldschoolgamers
    Nov 22, 2021
    0
    I was a newcomer to your game. I was at a loss as far as what difficulty to start out with as I don't like things too easy but yet I like a challenge. From my research online I figured it would be best to stay away from commander mode. If only i knew at the time how great of a decision that was. When I started playing the 1st couple of missions I was surprised at how easy it was forI was a newcomer to your game. I was at a loss as far as what difficulty to start out with as I don't like things too easy but yet I like a challenge. From my research online I figured it would be best to stay away from commander mode. If only i knew at the time how great of a decision that was. When I started playing the 1st couple of missions I was surprised at how easy it was for enemies to detect me and it seemed like when I had a 70% chance to hit an enemy I would miss more than I should on normal, still I continued to play. And I kept having to reload saved missions constantly because the enemy's line of sight confused me greatly as sometimes even when I would have complete line of sight on enemies, there would be still some squares that I would step on which did not indicate the enemies could see me but yet when I stepped on them they could see me and forced me to have to redo the whole turn. And they would almost always have to turn around to notice me. I guess the aliens in this game have eyes in the back of their head and can see all around them all the time. Also it seems like whenever yellow items were dropped that I could confiscate from the mission, it was always be in places where enemies were alerted to me immediately no matter what square I hit. I started looking up recommended research and skill recommendations and still was just barely getting through the missions but I hoped that after a few more it'd get easier. The last mission I played I had this one dead to rights with an 80% chance for 2 people on my squad, both missed, the only way I was able to kill the enemy is by throwing a grenade which was a for sure hit but luckily he just had 3 health. At the end of this mission on the map it loaded the avatar which in 12 squares would be completed, 3 squares filled immediately. I was a bit surprised but figured I would just have to huff it to try to find it before it was completed. Then I proceeded to the next mission. At the screen I noticed that 2 of my squad was missing. I had 2 of them severely wounded during the last mission but managed to get them healed back to full health before the mission cleared. Turns out that's not how this game works at least on normal mode. One of them was Jane Kelly and the other was my grenader. I had a backup ranger that I was using that was just 1 level behind her so I figured I could just substitute him for her but then I noticed that he was gone from my recruit screen for the mission so I went back and looked through my roster on the ship and he was nowhere to be found. I even checked the memorial area even though I knew he was not dead and the only 2 listed were the 2 that died at the beginning of the game. I figured it might have been a bug so I shut the game off and reloaded and unfortunately he was still missing. This was the final straw as he was a strong character and to start over with someone new was just too much so I shut the game off and probably will not play it again. Firaxis is coming out with a game called 'Midnight 'Suns' and I'm very intrigued about this as it has 2 my favorite marvel characters 'Blade' and 'Ghost Rider' but I hope that they will not do the same thing with that game as this 1. I know that it is difficult to find the balance difficulty wise between people that like to be pushed to the brink and people that liked to be held by the hand and you also have to find that balance in the middle for people like me but yet I feel like you did not do a good enough job with this game and I hope that you do not repeat it with 'Midnight Suns'.… Expand
  28. MickeyFinn
    Jun 13, 2022
    0
    How can this game get good reviews.. it's just broken on ps. Nb most issues are fixed in war of the chosen dlc, so firaxis knew but just dgaf. Loading times, crashes, exotic bugs (like saves saving the turn after, or shooting at an airborne archon turns the screen black and u hear a train station message playing.. wtf). Difficulty isn't the challenging type, it's the 'u miss with theHow can this game get good reviews.. it's just broken on ps. Nb most issues are fixed in war of the chosen dlc, so firaxis knew but just dgaf. Loading times, crashes, exotic bugs (like saves saving the turn after, or shooting at an airborne archon turns the screen black and u hear a train station message playing.. wtf). Difficulty isn't the challenging type, it's the 'u miss with the cannon in the alien's mouth' type… Expand
  29. kdi
    Dec 10, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 개 쓰레기 같은 게임을 6천원이나 주고 구매 했습니다.
    게임자체는 모바일 게임수준이고 인터페티스나 ui또는 단축키 미니맵 뭐하나 마음에 드는게 하나도 없네요 그리고 제일 좆같았던게 병사 편집시스템 입니다.
    나가기 버튼 없는게 실화 입니까?
    버그인지 모르겠으나 1시간동안 뒤로가기 버튼만 누르다가 승질나서 삭제했습니다.
    한국인 정서에 맞지 않는 게임이니 성질급한사람은 하지 마시길 권장합니다.    … Expand
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87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. RPGamer
    Jan 3, 2018
    80
    XCOM 2 doesn't reinvent the wheel, which is a good thing. It takes the lion's share of the gameplay from the last game and embeds it into the new game's foundation, shifting around some pieces to support the new gameplay fixtures without really altering the heart of the experience. With new soldier classes, enemy types, mission objectives, an all-new base, and a story built on losing the invasion the last time around, the new game provides the same intense combat experience and resource management series veterans expect. It ups the ante in terms of difficulty, and the result is a nail-biting game of close calls and narrow victories. While this may turn off some, it provides an amazing feeling of victory when one finds the sweet spot between keeping troops alive and advancing the long-term narrative-driving projects.
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  2. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Nov 27, 2016
    90
    While it’s a shade short of perfect, there is no comparison: you will find no finer strategy game on PS4. [Christmas 2016, p64]
  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Nov 21, 2016
    90
    No mere sequel, XCOM 2 reshapes everything with lots of success. It won't coddle you, and the invisible dice hate you, but overcoming these odds is as sweet as ever. [Dec 2016, p.72]
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