“XCOM: Enemy Unknown” isn’t so much a game as a time-travel device. Combining the two most engrossing genres in gaming, resource management and military tactics, it’s a DeLorean of addiction that makes hours seem like minutes.
The game is an “enhanced remake” of the 1994 PC game”X-COM: UFO Defense,” still renowned for the way it married big-picture strategy with micromanagement. Leave it to the folks at Firaxis, known for the standard-bearer “Civilization” series, to remake the game in a way that actually enhances it. This is more zoomed-in fare than they’re used to dealing with, as you’re tasked with running a military base, and not a, well, civilization, but they’ve been working on the game since 2008, and it shows.
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