“XCOM never lost the war ... built on the frame of a captured and retrofitted alien cargo ship rechristened as the Avenger. (This is a reference to the Avenger interceptor/troop carrier in ...

although if the aliens can deactivate nukes, they should have no problems deactivating those Xcom commandos boarding their ship. Another might be fear that the aliens would retaliate with even ...

They don't seem like this giant inexorable force so much as a commander and a ship and a computer ... All that means that an XCOM game starring the aliens is still a long way off, if it ever ...

If it wasn’t obvious from XCOM’s ominous naming convention for ... scientists and engineers who have managed to repurpose a huge alien ship, the Avenger. This is your home.

We all know XCOM is the gold standard for ... There's also a neat system that sees your alien troops sometimes get into fights on your ship, and you can choose to reward the victor or reprimand ...

I m happy to see that element is toned down in XCOM 2. Players can still build — that takes place in a square-shaped cargo hold of the alien supply ship — but there are fewer plots to manage.

You’re just…XCOM. The game even makes a big point of saying that your base is now a flying fortress inside a captured alien ship, but it looks pretty much identical to your underground lair in ...

You control a squad of marines fighting to regain control of their ship from alien boarders ... The game won't have Xcom's procedurally generated campaign. Instead, Halfway is a linear storyline ...

As the commander, you have to build up your base ship, the Avenger ... you can’t execute a perfect mission every time. In XCOM 2, the aliens get tougher and you have to beat them with better ...

In XCOM: Enemy Unknown ... using your new wicked cool flying alien ship/base of operations. No longer are you limited to reaction, fending off alien attacks, abductions and the fact that India ...

Concealment is an interesting concept, in that it’s basically XCOM 2’s aliens telling us ... soldiers are sitting in the Skyranger drop ship on the way to the battle, and less so in ...