GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Lead designer Mark Nauta talks about why Firaxis made some dramatic ...

One of the best things about XCOM is how it makes you feel a kinship with your soldiers. Randomly-generated grunts join your squad, you rename them, you tint their armour, and you send them out on the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, your soldiers needed to recover alien technology to advance their own scientific knowledge and construct better equipment.

Enriches great base game with fantastic variety Chosen and resistance factions add personality More ways to personalize soldiers Fun, powerful new classes 'Star Trek: TNG' voice cast “Why you can ...

"XCOM: Chimera Squad gives off a sort of Far Cry: Blood Dragon feel upon first glance, but the longer a player stays invested the more the game begins to feel like classic XCOM, despite all of the ...

The fundamentals remain - two actions per turn, full and half cover, destructible environments, etc - and it all works as well as we know it does. But as you will have guessed from its sudden ...

It’s difficult to please both new and old fans alike when rebooting a beloved franchise, but in 2012, Firaxis pulled off a game-development miracle when it successfully revived the legendary but ...

To say that the return of XCOM earlier this century was a mess is a bit of an understatement. In the end, we got the fantastic XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Before that, we had to endure 2K announcing a third ...

Turn-based tactical games are all about tough choices, and XCOM: Enemy Within does an outstanding job of piling more of those into the first half of the campaign against the alien invasion that began ...

The original X-COM: UFO Defense, which came out in 1994, has a pretty straightforward narrative: Aliens drop in from orbit and begin terrorizing the planet. It’s up to you and your little team of ...