Компания Firaxis продолжает славную традицию по выпуску объемных дополнений. DLC, в достаточно большом количестве вышедшие для XCOM 2 за полтора года после ее релиза, вполне ожидаемо не добавили в игру ничего, что сподвигло бы меня проходить ее снова. [...]
XCOM games are about staring down the impossible and choosing to fight on anyway. The premise of the franchise is that Earth is under siege by immeasurably more advanced alien swarms. XCOM 2 posits that we, as players, can’t be victorious. Where its [...]
War of the Chosen’s first mission plays out exactly the same as in the original XCOM 2, which caught me a little by surprise. After being treated to a brand new intro cinematic that partly rewrites how the Commander is rescued in the opening moments [...]
If anybody knows how to make a proper video game expansion, its Firaxis. Civilization V and XCOM: Enemy Unknown were both solid games at launch, but it was only with the addition of packs like Gods & Kings, Brave New World, andEnemy Within did [...]
Firaxis’ alien-blasting strategy game is so finely balanced that if the developer pushed too hard on any of its systems the whole game could completely break. This existing complexity makes XCOM 2’s War of the Chosen expansion feel like a magic trick, [...]
