Happy Friday
Everyone!
Hope everyone is
feeling good, gearing up for a weekend!
For this Friday, I
am going to talk about the game I have been playing the heck out of.... X-Com
2.
30 hours in, and
going strong. Heck, I haven't even beat it yet. I am just enjoying it, playing
though and enjoying myself.
Before anything,
let's talk about what X-com actually is. X-Com is a series of games revolving
around alien invasion. It involves fighting off waves of baddy aliens who are
gross, and bad, and clearly want to enslave the world. You are responsible for
stopping them, and pushing them off earth.
I got my start in
X-Com: Enemy Unknown... and it was a whole new thing to me. Enemy Unknown was
the reboot of the original series, and was a turn based tactical squad game.
There were also some base management mechanics, but the game itself was all
about the tactical turn based gameplay. I put hours and hours into this game,
struggling to get the right combination to ease my path to victory. It can be a
very unforgiving game, but when you get that victory it is so sweet.
Now, X-Com 2 is an
awesome continuation to this series. Many of the mechanics are similar, but
there are a ton of tweaks that completely change the way the game is played.
Keeping your squad in cover and in concealment is extremely important. Also,
the enemies in X-Com 2 are particularly unforgiving... made worse by the armor
mechanic, which reduced the amount of damage you are doing.
To make things even
worse, there is a count-down timer till the end game... so if you do not
interact with the main story enough, you can lose the game straight out. The
trick is, of course, to let it get close, before doing something to reduce the
time.
I would highly
recommend this game to anyone who is interested in turn based games, squad
tactical games, shooting aliens in the face games, or even just games where you
get to sneak around and break things.
This is the type of
game I will be playing for years to come.
And with that....
have a great weekend everyone!
Thank you!
-Rob-
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