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Replayed: XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Added: 09.08.2014 21:13 | 14 views | 0 comments

Mick Fraser: "Ive never been much for tactics. My brain doesnt work in straight lines, doesnt allow me to analyse a situation as it is and deal with it. Im governed by imagination, by whimsy and fancy and what-ifs. Had I been a soldier, Id have likely been useless for anything but making up numbers and soaking up bullets. As a result, I tend to avoid strategy games like a plague of locusts, preferring something less cerebral like your average bombastic shooter or kill-loot-level grindathon, maybe a low-brow brawler like Mortal Kombat now and then. Which is why I didnt pay much attention to XCOM: Enemy Unknown when it was first announced. A game developed by Firaxis, they of Civilisation fame, it seemed far too clever for my liking, far too involved and so I more or less ignored it. It turns out that it was exactly all of those things, and yet also much, much more. A thinking mans action game, Gears of War with a brain, Halo with a better tactical spin than Halo Wars ...