I Choose You!
HIGH The tweaks revitalize the campaign. Finishing several missions with a 100% hit rate.
LOW Getting all of the DLC properly activated is counter-intuitive. Performance issues.
WTF Seriously, don’t play Iron Man mode.
Tag: Firaxis
XCOM 2 Review
XCOM-municated
HIGH Dashing across the map to chop up alien scumbags with the Ranger's Reaper ability.
LOW The current PC build is a technical horror show.
WTF My entire squad missing every shot during a perfectly-planned ambush.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth Review
Not Enough Beyond
HIGH Squeezing out a transcendence victory just as my main competitor starting shoveling units into the Emancipation Gate.
LOW Finishing the Exodus Gate on a map that had far too little free space to actually achieve the victory.
WTF Getting condemned as a warmonger because none of my enemies would negotiate for peace.
Xcom: Enemy Within Review
Mechs come
HIGH My Mec unit punching an Exalt scumbag through a wall and halfway down the street.
LOW It all feels a little too familiar despite the changes.
WTF Those engineering lads at Xcom suggested cutting our agents apart just a little bit too quickly for comfort.
Extra Credits: Funding XCOM, Part 1 and 2
Why have we become to concerned with a zombie apocalypse? What about the much more likely—or at least more interesting—prospect of an alien invasion? But before we even talk about a defense system to fight back that alien attack, Extra Credits asks if there are even any aliens to worry about.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Review
Long Absent, a Little Different, but not Unknown
HIGH The resurrection of a long-absent, fan favorite franchise.
LOW Restarting after ten hours due to crushing poverty.
WTF Walls don't function properly in this universe.
Observations from PAX East 2012: What’s old is new again
Amidst the sea of near indistinguishable first- and third-person shooters, MMOs and MMO shooters at PAX East, I found it somewhat ironic that two particular titles that stood out to me where both remakes of classic games: XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Double Dragon Neon.
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