XCOM® 2 Reviews

561 hours played so far and I just started a new campaign last week in a game that is 9 years old! What else can i say about this masterpiece of a game!? It is a game that with all the amazing mods that are around can be played for 10 more years from now on. YOU make your own story in this game. Each new campaign is different each time you play, and as i said with the mods around, you basically play multiple games at once using only the core engine of Xcom 2. A must play in life. Period.

Improved version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within. Didn't care much for the DLCs as they were either slow (SPARK level), clashed with the main content (cosmetics), or didn't add the right things to further enhance the game or were annoying (Alien Rulers). It feels like they were trying to be more wacky with a lot of the additional content, which is odd because the tone of the base game is great. Game crashes often though so that's frustrating, but otherwise worthwhile for the base game if on sale.

a fun strategy game. mods make it infinitely repayable. With Long War of The Chosen mod/overhaul still getting frequent updates keeps the game fresh.

It's a really good turn-based sci-fi strategy game. It has lots of unique mechanics and still holds up after several years.

I enjoyed this Game but the incessant misses should be reduced to a point of acceptability, especially at point blank distance...

Absolutely Addicting, even have a 99% chance of not breaking my keyboard. 10/10

Very fun, even without mods

Love the game... but there are enough bugs to mean that when something unexpected and new happens I'm never convinced it's supposed to.

After my 3rd attempt, I was able to beat this game, and I didn't really like it. The game is cruel, unreasonably hard and very disrespectful to player. At first, the game bombards you with a ton of non-skippable events, missions, messages. While you trying to figure out what's going on, they put on a timer on you with this "Project Avatar" thing, and you immediately feel a lot of pressure. Some missions are just crazy difficult, like those for Serpent King and Mad AI factory, and you don't expect this difficulty this early in the game. Mid-game you finally have a chance to catch some breath and start working on some research, building and engineering, but here's the catch: the moment you get better in the game, the moment you upgrade your weapons and armour, the enemies suddenly become more powerful and armoured. You just don't have a chance to enjoy powerful things that you've made, because they quickly become just what is expected by default. The end game comes unexpectedly, with a lot of pressure on you. It consists of two consecutive missions with no pause in between. If you got some units damaged in the first mission, you either will have to replace your best units or send them in wounded. The final mission is crazy, the amount of extremely powerful enemies is over the top, and it carries a lot of stress. Given that the game is flawed with bugs in controls, has dumb battle mechanics that lead to absurd situations and very challenging overall even on lower difficulties, I would not recommend this game.

2015 I graduated University. 2016 the game came out. For many years, I didn't have the time to play the game, or would like to spend 90 dollars on the game title at the time. 9 years later, it's 5 bucks on discounts, and it plays just as well as when i was continuing from 2015 from XCOM 1. Highly recommend this game to be played by people. That and my potato Intel i3 cheap laptop from 2021 runs the game just as nice, even at the lowest display graphics (with a little longer loading time).