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See How XCOM Has Changed For Yourself
2Strategy games have a tendency to straddle an area between slow, decisive moves and the chaos of action happening seemingly out of your hands and all around you. Some strategy games are slower-paced than others. As tense as things can get in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, it’s more or less leaned towards the ease of turn-based…
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See XCOM’s New Super Soldiers In Action
It figures that right after I write my hands-on preview of XCOM: Enemy Within, Firaxis would then release the video of its PAX closed-doors demonstration. (Video during my playthrough was forbidden.) Well, it’s worth the double-dip, because you can see some things I forgot to mention.
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XCOM’s ‘Flying Spider Shark’ Wasn’t Left On The Cutting Room Floor
At the beginning of the latest video for XCOM: Enemy Within you can see some hideous tentacled thing that turns invisible and sneaks up on a lone soldier to strangle him, facehugger-style. That’s a Seeker, and its original concept looked even more dreadful.
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This Is Surely The Worst Possible Starting Position In Civilization V
This is surely the worst possible starting position in Civilization V — so bad it hurts. Beginning with the troops scattered in the middle of nowhere is no way to build a successful empire. But, look on the bright side: The location is incredibly defensible against a land attack! And there are lots of crabs…