XCOM 2

 PlayStation 4
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  1. Scebol
    Aug 5, 2023
    9
    Non sono un amante della fantascienza ma amo i giochi a turni e xcom 2 è sicuramente uno dei migliori. Le uniche pecche sono alcuni bug e i tempi di caricamento biblici, che pero' si riducono drasticamente se lo si gioca su ps5
  2. Yojimbo2015
    May 20, 2023
    10
    The seminal turn-based strategy game returns with some upgraded visuals and a conscious attempt to inject a bit more variety into the missions and maps. As with a lot of strategy sequels, some of the tinkering seems to be there for its own sake and adds a layer of complexity without really adding to the enjoyment. For this reason it doesn't quite capture the imagination in the same way asThe seminal turn-based strategy game returns with some upgraded visuals and a conscious attempt to inject a bit more variety into the missions and maps. As with a lot of strategy sequels, some of the tinkering seems to be there for its own sake and adds a layer of complexity without really adding to the enjoyment. For this reason it doesn't quite capture the imagination in the same way as Enemy Within, but it's a top notch strategy title nonetheless.… Expand
  3. TianLong1
    Mar 31, 2023
    9
    Great turn-based tactical RPG with loads and loads of customization for your soldiers, even better than its previous release. There is a lot of different maps and types of enemies which make the game harder as you progress. I wish there were more types of objectives aside from attacking a base/payload or saving civilians, it can get a bit repetitive.
  4. hector_bcn98
    Mar 13, 2023
    7
    Segunda partida que inicio ya, tras acabar X-COM Enemy Within. Amo el género, amo las batallas, amo la gestión de recursos. Lo amo todo y deseaba volver a amar X-COM 2, pero no puedo, no me deja. El videojuego no me deja porque ha implantando un sistema llamado Avatar, y sin avisar de que hay un elemento, los datos, vitales para avanzar en la trama y desarticular poco a poco Avatar,Segunda partida que inicio ya, tras acabar X-COM Enemy Within. Amo el género, amo las batallas, amo la gestión de recursos. Lo amo todo y deseaba volver a amar X-COM 2, pero no puedo, no me deja. El videojuego no me deja porque ha implantando un sistema llamado Avatar, y sin avisar de que hay un elemento, los datos, vitales para avanzar en la trama y desarticular poco a poco Avatar, evitando entrar en un punto de no retorno donde los alienígenas acaban con el mundo.

    Bien, ya van dos partidas (la segunda con más de 15 horas) y por desconocer la importancia de los datos para sobrevivir, he vuelto a entrar en el punto de no retorno y todas esas horas son inservibles. El juego debería avisar de esto y dar una alternativa, porque no es justo, así como la dificultad muchas veces desmedida para sobrevivir con solo 4 soldados. Lo volveré a intentar, pero la frustración generada sigue ahí y resulta desesperante y agotador.

    Si no fuera por el contrarreloj que supone Avatar, esta secuela estaría directamente a la altura de Enemy Unknown/Within... si pasaramos también por alto el terrible framerate, los bugs, el lag de los personajes, los eternos tiempos de carga para casi todo, la estúpida dificultad en Normal o si al juego le da por congelarse. Terrible que Firaxis haya decidido dejar de parchear el juego en consolas. Está roto, haced algo!    … Expand
  5. Smiler78
    Dec 20, 2022
    8
    This is a pretty damn good game. Exactly what an turn based strategy game should be. The best strategy game on ps4 BY FAR. (We need more like this) A good variety of aliens to combat keeps the game interesting. The power ups and new items keep you wanting to come back. I just wish it lasted longer. Highly recommended. Good job. One of the only games I will not delete because I will comeThis is a pretty damn good game. Exactly what an turn based strategy game should be. The best strategy game on ps4 BY FAR. (We need more like this) A good variety of aliens to combat keeps the game interesting. The power ups and new items keep you wanting to come back. I just wish it lasted longer. Highly recommended. Good job. One of the only games I will not delete because I will come back and play it again.… Expand
  6. 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
  7. Shortbuss1211
    Nov 27, 2022
    10
    This game can be very frustrating at times.. you will either hate it or love it ..one of my top ten list but so is Final Fantasy so take it as it is .. opinion
  8. 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.
  9. Agt_Killionaire
    Oct 7, 2022
    5
    I like this game but it is way to dang hard. You have to constantly save and load to essentially beat the game on it's easiest difficulty and it takes an undesirable amount of time to load a save.
  10. 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.
  11. XiaoLiSoi
    Sep 7, 2022
    5
    Played the game for a good 10+ hours and found the gameplay a bit monotonous including the story too, seems like a decent game but I think the price and type of game It is just isn't for me,.
  12. Godudu
    Aug 16, 2022
    5
    The combat/strategic gameplay is fantastic. Being able to create your soldiers and do missions with them, then seeing their progress as they evolve and keep defeating more aliens is very very cool. Enemies are very well design as well and the game is fair, it respects your intelligence and challenges you. But why 5/10 then? Because of the stupid base management and time limit. Who thoughtThe combat/strategic gameplay is fantastic. Being able to create your soldiers and do missions with them, then seeing their progress as they evolve and keep defeating more aliens is very very cool. Enemies are very well design as well and the game is fair, it respects your intelligence and challenges you. But why 5/10 then? Because of the stupid base management and time limit. Who thought it was a good idea to put a fking time limit to how much you can play? You can do the things as you wish, you must do lots of **** missions when they ask you to do, otherwise is game over. And the annoying management of research and etc is unbearable.… Expand
  13. thenoobbob
    Jun 15, 2022
    7
    I really enjoy playing this game. Its the first game in this genre and it doesnt hold your hand at all, and i like that. But ist bugged. The bugs keep it from a 9 or even 10.
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. MusclyMcGee
    Apr 18, 2022
    5
    Not fun when all enemies are bullet sponges and your soldiers can't hit Sh**, and can all be killed in one turn if you are unlucky (which is what the core gameplay revolves around). Everything else is actually quite good, I enjoyed the stuff on the ship, such as customising your soldiers and upgrading your ships rooms. I also found the story/lore to be quite intriguing, which you get a lotNot fun when all enemies are bullet sponges and your soldiers can't hit Sh**, and can all be killed in one turn if you are unlucky (which is what the core gameplay revolves around). Everything else is actually quite good, I enjoyed the stuff on the ship, such as customising your soldiers and upgrading your ships rooms. I also found the story/lore to be quite intriguing, which you get a lot of. PS, this game is hard AF (or just simply unfair/rng based), even on the easy difficulty.… Expand
  18. TheSocialBandit
    Apr 10, 2022
    7
    The Game is fun
    But Game Breaking Bugs and glitches realky sucks and Loading times are so long
  19. michaeljhuman
    Feb 14, 2022
    10
    This is based on playing more recently than a lot of these reviews, and on a PC. I don't have the issues others have. Also, I have War of the Chosen installed, which might change how the base game plays even when not doing WOTC.

    Ok, I consider this one of my favorite games ever. Hard, sure. But rewarding. It took me time to learn how to deal with some of the challenges. But I have    This is based on playing more recently than a lot of these reviews, and on a PC. I don't have the issues others have. Also, I have War of the Chosen installed, which might change how the base game plays even when not doing WOTC.

    Ok, I consider this one of my favorite games ever. Hard, sure. But rewarding. It took me time to learn how to deal with some of the challenges. But I have beat it quite a few times, not sure what difficulty levels.

    War Of the Chosen adds interesting, though sometimes stressful challenges. I would say play the base game first, and beat it. Then take on WOTC.

    There's a fair amount of customization of difficulty. For example, in my game, I can double the turn timers.

    Reading the reviews, I can see this is not for everyone. I don't know if the game was buggy in earlier versions, and/or if WOTC has improved things a lot. But I loved the game BEFORE buying WOTC.

    Yeah, 10/10 seems high, but this game made me want to keep going back and restarting, and trying different ideas.    … Expand
  20. eduardocecconi
    Nov 28, 2021
    6
    I never understand this blind love of the critics about XCOM2. As the DLC War of the Chosen, XCOM2 fails to provide a rewarding experience to the player. Despite all compliments to the complexity and variety of possibilities, it's impossible to beat the machine - unless you play the beginner level. I hardly recommend to disabled "Alien Hunter's" and "Shen's Last Gif" DLCs, mainly AlienI never understand this blind love of the critics about XCOM2. As the DLC War of the Chosen, XCOM2 fails to provide a rewarding experience to the player. Despite all compliments to the complexity and variety of possibilities, it's impossible to beat the machine - unless you play the beginner level. I hardly recommend to disabled "Alien Hunter's" and "Shen's Last Gif" DLCs, mainly Alien Hunter's (the most insane and annoying gameplay ever).… Expand
  21. 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
  22. X-comfan18
    Apr 27, 2021
    10
    The best turn based UFO Defence game that I've played.

    XCOM was Great. XCOM has further built up on it's strengths and created an even better product with Updated Graphics and Campaign. Every single DLC had a profound impact on gameplay and refined it even further.

    Grab the complete XCOM2 bungle for best experience.
  23. bergcamp101
    Feb 21, 2021
    9
    I give it 9, because overall experience was impressive, which is great, but there are so many problems... FPS is so low, and it's a turn-based tactics! Loading times are infinite. I bet they did it on purpose, so you couldn't reload your move too often... And those hit percentages are just preposterous. You know that feeling, when you shoot 6 times in one alien, and miss 5 times, but whenI give it 9, because overall experience was impressive, which is great, but there are so many problems... FPS is so low, and it's a turn-based tactics! Loading times are infinite. I bet they did it on purpose, so you couldn't reload your move too often... And those hit percentages are just preposterous. You know that feeling, when you shoot 6 times in one alien, and miss 5 times, but when the enemy shoots from the same position, he does critical hit...… Expand
  24. 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
  25. gdrdydfjhgyi
    Feb 2, 2021
    0
    Ужасная игра. Вызывает только негативные эмоции. Графика убогая 1996 года. И при этом тормозит на максимальном разрешении экрана.
  26. Kai82
    Jan 16, 2021
    10
    A great sequel. The story is set approx 20 years after X-Com Enemy Within / Unknown. Earth has surrendered to the aliens (We would have no sequel otherwise;-). The X-Com project was abandoned and the aliens created a shining new benevolent future for humanity. This is however a facade as they have a more sinister agenda. You are again the commander of X-Com and freed from captivity to beA great sequel. The story is set approx 20 years after X-Com Enemy Within / Unknown. Earth has surrendered to the aliens (We would have no sequel otherwise;-). The X-Com project was abandoned and the aliens created a shining new benevolent future for humanity. This is however a facade as they have a more sinister agenda. You are again the commander of X-Com and freed from captivity to be the leader of the resistance. The aliens and the puppet government troops called Advent will try to stop you. The general gameplay is the same. It is half base management (Development & Research, building, training etc.) and half turn based strategic combat missions. You have a mobile headquarter in form of the Avenger a captured alien supply craft. Here you can build several facilities. There are requirements, building / maintenance costs and of cause you must have enough power supply. Facilities can be upgraded to gain additional benefits. You research new technologies and build weapons / items that help you. Be warned there is a huge mysterious Avatar Project run by the aliens. It is basically a game over timer and it should be a priority to stop them. There will be monthly supply drops and dark events. You get a choice to stop 1 of 3 events and face the disadvantages that go along with the others . These range from don't bother me with this to crippling your efforts. There is a new resource called intel. It is used to contact the resistance on other countries and is a valuable resource. Try to get a good balance with building facilities and researching. Then there are the turn based missions. You send out a squad of soldiers on different types of missions. You have normally a concealment in place as long as you don't attack or be spotted (Use this to full advantage). There are 4 classes of soldiers available with a fifth being unlockable. These are Ranger, Grenadier, Specialist and Sharpshooter. All classes are useful and the extra class requires a bit of research and building but is worth it. The final mission would be far more menacing without 2 members of it in my team. Many staples / features return. Your soldiers level up into a new ranks by defeating enemies. With each rank you can chose 1 of 2 abilities. There are a few interesting builds as there are overlaps and branching parts. Be warned your soldiers can permanently die or be wounded which means unavailability until full recovery. There is again a training facility where you can unlock some benefits if you have a soldier with the needed rank. It should be a no brainer that the squad size upgrades should be high on the list and that you should train a few rookies to have replacements in case of wounded or dead soldiers. There are a few new enemies you must prepared for. Be warned that some missions have a time limit or are more difficult (retaliations for example) if you want to get the best results. As X-Com staple you have a great variety on difficulty settings. The higher once are truly challenging. I recommend a play-trough on lower difficulties to learn the mechanics and then starting with the higher once. The game mechanics overall work well and they mastered the art in giving us more of the same and some additions that are refreshing but not to alienating. The story itself delivers as there are great twist and a strong final. Overall this is an excellent sequel and one of my favorite strategy games. An easy recommendation especially for fans of the genre.… Expand
  27. JackytheRipper
    Oct 4, 2020
    9
    Turn based tactics, character development, research and base building, ideally combined
  28. fioritos
    Nov 21, 2020
    7
    Good game, but there are a lot of glitches in ps4 version and the load screen is infinite. This is annoying when we are talking about a game that you Will have to reload many times, as its Hard af.
  29. Bioware-Critic
    Nov 17, 2020
    4
    XCOM 2 is a game of many, many flaws. Sadly. This could have very much gone in a better direction but the developers seem to not know the very meaning of the word - polish. Almost every aspect of the game feels unfinished and that it could have been two to three levels better if only a little more optimization and care would have gone into it.
    There is so much to criticise here ... I will    XCOM 2 is a game of many, many flaws. Sadly. This could have very much gone in a better direction but the developers seem to not know the very meaning of the word - polish. Almost every aspect of the game feels unfinished and that it could have been two to three levels better if only a little more optimization and care would have gone into it.
    There is so much to criticise here ... I will only touch on a few points and leave it at that. Otherwise I will go on a full-on nerd-rage!

    - The difficulty: There is none. I am not joking! The game is stupidly easy. What gets you though to tear out your own hair is how mind-numbingly unfair this game is pretty much in every situation and how little is explained. You are expected to make everything up as you go, probably even decide 90% of every decision to be made correctly and then fail regardless. You then will go forward a slow death you see not coming until it is too late and you have to start from 0. The very concept of the game seems to be ... "to **** all over the player and his/her dignity". It is quite intelligence-insulting. These unfair results you earn by doing mostly everything right are something you simply overcome and balance out on the tactical level and maybe not in the moment but as fast as you can. What you will not be able to balance out however, is that in the long term, on the strategic level, the game maneuvers you into a dead end if you play it for the first time AND YOU DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING until you simply are forced to give up!

    - The gameplay: The game gives you a lot of options but is otherwise very unimaginative. You are forced down every road you take and the freedom you have is pretty much impossible to enjoy since you are bombarded with a dozen things that ... have to be done "IMMEDIATELY or ELSE!" ... Seriously, I ask myself who is so lame and retarded to think of such idiotic ideas and think themselves to be creative? The balancing in this game seems to be done by breaking the "fourth-wall" and kicking the player in the crotch! You get punished for EVERYTHING. things you could never know will happen, things you did not know existed and things that will never be explained to you no matter what.

    - Performance: I have not have a single game on my PS4 which crashed so regularly. Especially not 3 years after release. Pretty embarrassing I would say. The engine performs horribly. Every turn the engine will produce bugs of various kinds, like actions not happening or animations and their respective sounds persisting forever and torture your ears! Or the camera angle will prevent you from seeing what you need to see and from reading what you need to read. It is quite the circus during the missions.

    If Firaxis really decides to make a third game they desperately need to get back to square one!!! ... at the drawing board. This title is a mess and quite literally all over the place. I don't care how many fans this series has. For a grown-up this product is a straight up INSULT!

    If you are a person who values his/her dignity, you should give this a wide birth. If you plan on buying it I would suggest you don't pay more than 5 bucks. I, myself would like nothing better than to get my money back. Since it is a bad habit of mine to build up a catalog of bought games which I play a good while AFTER I bought them this is not possible any longer.    … Expand
  30. Lifwerne
    Sep 16, 2020
    7
    Xcom 2 is a really addicting and fun game.

    However the story is incredibly weak and it ends very abruply in a way. The objectives are confusing as well. But the combat and all the ways you can upgrade you ship and weapons are really fun. It's def not a game with too easy difficulty level and I liked that. The graphics are great and the combat feels very responsive. For some reason    Xcom 2 is a really addicting and fun game.

    However the story is incredibly weak and it ends very abruply in a way. The objectives are confusing as well.
    But the combat and all the ways you can upgrade you ship and weapons are really fun. It's def not a game with too easy difficulty level and I liked that. The graphics are great and the combat feels very responsive.

    For some reason every single person you can choose in your squad is a dark person, makes me think they are trying to push some political agenda though, which is sad. Seems a bit infected by that whole SJW thinking.

    +
    Combat
    Responsive and optimized
    Graphics
    Enemies
    Upgrades
    Narrative
    Music & sound-design
    Good difficulty level

    -

    Story useless
    Shallow gameplay in the long rong
    Very repetitious
    Unclear objectives
    SJW agenda
    Forced missions that put you out of your flow    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#13 Best PS4 Game of 2016
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#32 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2016
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#34 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2016

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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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