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Suddenly, like an oasis in the middle of the desert, XCOM: Enemy Within has arrived… and it is quite refreshing. It has been a year since Enemy Unknown released, with only two rather insignificant DLC releases, and a disappointing XCOM third-person shooter did nothing to quench the thirst of dehydrated XCOM fans. Perhaps the hardest choice of all is whether or not to turn the game off, or “do just one more mission”.

A bad call on the battlefield could result in a soldier you’ve spent countless hours leveling up dying permanently. Coming to the aid of one country could lose you the support of another. It wouldn’t be until 2012 that the series returned to true form with the re-imagined XCOM: Enemy Unknown.Įnemy Unknown is a game about making difficult choices. After a few less successful sequels, the series switched hands between publishers as Hasbro bought out MicroProse. XCOM: Enemy Within, which was announced during Gamescom 2013 in August, will feature new unit types, skills, upgrades, and map features, and will be released for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on November 12.įor more information on XCOM: Enemy Within, check out GameSpot's in-depth report into the new content.X-COM was a very unique mixture of turn-based combat fused with researching technology and managing resources. It was either deliver it this way or not deliver it at all." "These things are tied deeply into Enemy Unknown so we wanted to release as sort of the ultimate edition, with all the previous DLC on this one disc. We couldn't simply just patch it in."ĭeAngelis added that the XCOM Commander Edition was only way all the Enemy Within content would be able to make it to console. If we wanted to deliver the same content to the console players, we had to do it this way as a standalone expansion on a disc. "But when it came to the consoles, it was too big. "For the expansion on the PC, it was fairly straightforward," said Firaxis senior producer Garth DeAngelis in an interview with Joystiq at PAX.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown expansion XCOM: Enemy Within was "too large" to be released as a patch or DLC on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, developer Firaxis Games has said.įor 360 and PS3, Enemy Within will only be released as part of the disc-based Commander Edition of XCOM: Enemy Unknown in November.