XCOM: Enemy Unknown

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based strategy game with rich content gameplay, compelling missions combined with aliens and organizational building tactics.

The battle to protect the Earth in turn-based strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based strategy game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. Reworked as well as a new addition to the classic tactical game version of 1994 called UFO: Enemy Unknown (also known as X-COM: UFO Defense ), the game is also a reboot (reboot is the job eliminating all the things created in the series to refresh all the characters, the plot, the content .) completely new from the X-COM game series in the 90s.

Set in the near future when the Earth is invaded by aliens, the game takes players into an elite soldier organization from many countries called XCOM and performs the task of protecting the Earth. You will control an army on the battlefield, taking part in missions in the form of turn-based tactics. Among these missions, players also research and develop new technologies from captured alien technology, expand XCOM facilities, manage financial operations and supervise as well as giving a timely response to the actions of aliens.

Video introduces strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown

XCOM: Enemy Unknown received positive reviews for its addictive level, replayability, and difficulty. Many review sites do not hesitate to call XCOM: Enemy Unknown the game of the year. Although released at the time RTS game was crowned with names such as WarCraft, Age of Empires, but XCOM was not faint but confirmed its position with rich gameplay and many other interesting things.

Introduce the game alien XCOM: Enemy Unknown

The plot of the game is relatively simple and familiar as you still see in many fighting games with aliens. Before the invasion of aliens, a group of countries gathered together and established XCOM (short for Extraterrestrial Combat Unit - an elite military and scientific organization, Works for human history with the mission to fight against the attack of aliens. Players will be the commander of XCOM, participate in the battle with extraterrestrial creatures and possess high technology.

Gameplay of XCOM: Enemy Unknown

The main gameplay of XCOM revolves around two activities: performing missions to fight aliens and build bases for the organization . The turn-based battle is filmed in a top-down 3D perspective. Players control a group of 1 to 6 people (or robots) and hunt for aliens on the map. The map is available, not randomly generated, but the appearances of the aliens will be random. Mist will cause the player can not see the enemy until entering the visible area.

Determine the location of aliens

Warriors in XCOM: Enemy Unknown can carry many items, perform special abilities through the toolbar on the head-up display (HUD). The ability can be mentioned as automatically firing the enemy when they appear or launching explosives, healing wounds for teammates . In addition, they can also hide behind walls or large objects in the game environment to shield.Cutscene scenes and camera movements emphasize interesting moments such as killing a group of aliens or using special abilities. The longer you live on the battlefield, the more abilities you can gain for warriors.

Parameters on the ability of each warrior in XCOM

Video introduces new content package Sling Shot by XCOM

The tactical element in the game lies in the operation of building bases, organizational development . The XCOM headquarters is an underground base. Here players will manage the construction, production, research projects, guide scientists and engineers to use resources to support the battle team. The panoramic view of the Earth called Geoscape will allow you to track everything happening, deploy troops to attack UFOs or send soldiers to positions on the ground.

Together with a team of engineers and scientists developing combat technology

Building and expanding the base of XCOM in the game

As a multi-national organization, your actions may affect other countries. For example, solving a good situation can make them less nervous or ignore the risk that can make them panic and potentially withdraw from XCOM. If you want to challenge, you can choose the difficulty level like Classic or Impossible, each option allows the use of Ironman (limit the number of times the game is saved to only 1 time). At difficult levels, the characteristics of the battle as well as the requirements of resources become more difficult.

XCOM is an organization funded by many countries

XCOM: Enemy Unknown also has a multiplayer mode for one to one battles. Players are given a certain amount of budget to build their army (including people, aliens or both). If you are a human, you can customize many types of weapons, armor, equipment. If you are an alien then you can not customize anything but the capabilities of aliens will be like them in single player mode.

Complete missions to kill aliens

In general, XCOM: Enemy Unknown can please anyone who loves strategy games , especially the TBS strategy game . Rich gameplay, depth, many missions and requires a combination of combat capabilities as well as building attractive army. The ratings for XCOM: Enemy Unknown are mostly on October 9. The game is also an inspiration to revive the turn-based strategy game genre with following names such as Sid Meier's Civilization or Invisible, Inc. You can play games on Windows, Mac and even Linux computers via the Steam system, just meet the technical requirements below and install the Steam Client on the respective platforms.

The war with aliens takes place in turn

The main feature of the strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown

• Action tactics - The game brings turn-based battles with many consecutive actions along with the battle at the battle.
• Building bases - Recruitment, army development and human resource management.Detect and destroy aliens threats along with the process of building and expanding XCOM headquarters.
• Strategic battles - Control the land army while using aerial combat units such as Interceptor or Skyranger.
• Global threat - The war expanded globally when XCOM participated in more than 70 missions, interacting with and working with governments around the world.

A cutscene scene using special abilities in the game

System requirements with Windows

• Windows Vista operating system (Windows 7 recommended),
• Dual Core 2 GHz processor (recommended Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or Athlon X2 2.7GHz).
• 2GB RAM memory (4GB recommended).
• DirectX version 9.0.
• NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT or ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or more graphics cards (NVIDIA GeForce 9000 or ATI Radeon HD 3000 recommended or better).
• 20GB free hard disk space.
• Sound card compatible with DirectX.
• Internet connection.
• First setup requires Internet to verify Steam along with the Steam Client version on Windows, Visual C ++ 2008 Redistributable, DirectX and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.

Warrior in XCOM: Enemy Unknown is equipped with many weapons

System requirements with Mac

• Mac OS X 10.8.5 (recommended 10.9.1).
• 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
• 4GB RAM memory (8GB recommended).
• 20GB free hard disk space.
• 256MB VRAM memory (1GB recommended).
• AMD HD4000 or NVIDIA 9000 video card
• Internet connection.
• Note that the following video cards are not supported: ATI X1xxx, ATI HD2xxx, Intel GMA, NVIDIA 7xxx, NVIDIA 8xxx.
• If you use the following video cards, you need 8GB of RAM: NVIDIA 320M, NVIDIA 9400 and Intel HD3000.

The ability of the character can be expanded gradually during gameplay

System requirements with Linux

• Linux operating system Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit version.
• 2GB processor (3GB recommended).
• 4GB RAM memory (8GB recommended).
• 512MB graphics card (1GB recommended).
• 16GB hard drive space.
• NVIDIA 600, AMD 6000 or Intel Iris Pro graphics card (NVIDIA 700 recommended).

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