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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified: The Kotaku Review
9In an early mission of The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, a deer clattered across the pavement of a wrecked college town’s main drag as I took my orders. It paused and looked at me, and I at it. Even before this invasion, that deer’s world was under constant threat from death-dealing technology beyond its comprehension. What…
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You Only Live Once In XCOM. No, Really. You Only Live Once.
Video game permadeath is not a concept unique to XCOM but it has, perhaps, its most visceral application in that series. Like its predecessors, if one of your men die in The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, that is it. He is gone for good. This can be a tragedy. Or, in the case of this video,…
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If You Know What The Hell Is Going On In This XCOM Video, Let Us Know
I can tell you what the hell’s going to happen after this video. Little Kevin is going to get vaporized by aliens. Seriously, I can’t figure out why the clown is in hot water with the G-Man. Or why it’d be prudent to close down a kid’s show this way.
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Brave New World Is A Great Expansion To A Good Game, Six Critics Say
Improving greatly upon the base game while bringing new, fun things to the table? Yep, that’s how expansions should work. In fact, that’s how Civilization V: Brave New World works.