You are Earth's first and last line of defense against an alien threat. The fate of the world is in your hands, Commander.

Sure, it may have problems. There may be a lack of graphics options, the camera may be fiddly and customising your starting squad may involve lots of tedious menu back and forth...but these are small problems.

My childhood is filled with memories of my father playing video games. While these memories seem to end around the same time I became old enough to play video games, I do remember sitting on his lap as he played X-COM: UFO Defense .

Firaxis's XCOM: Enemy Unknown is both ridiculously fun, and unbelievably frustrating. I generally lean more towards the fun end of that equation, but as a successor to the original UFO: Enemy Unknown (aka X-COM: UFO Defense ), which itself was known for its brutal difficulty, things can quickly turn...

The turn based strategy RPG is a defiant genre; while classic turn based JRPGs such as the single digit Final Fantasy games and the Dragon Quests have all but been bred out of existence, evolving into more action oriented experiences to appeal more to today's immediate satisfaction kind of gamer the...

Genuinely brilliant turn based strategy; Infinitely personal experiences; Contender for Game of the Year; The memorial of shame; RK Ben Fox's K/D ratio

Quick Take: XCOM is reimagined for a new generation and Jon mostly digs its return.

Real Time Strategy games have become somewhat of a rarity these days, seemingly put aside in favour of more action focused experiences. Take XCOM itself for instance, which was set to get a run and gun FPS re-imagining until an outpouring of complaints from fans resulted in the developer attempting...

This game is incredibly addicting and very well executed by Firaxis. If you're a fan of strategy games of any kind, I highly recommend picking up a copy of this. Great for gamers into science fiction books or movies like Aliens or Men in Black.

was my all-time favourite strategy game. When it was announced that the game was coming back, and heading to PS3, in late 2012 I was overjoyed, and that only increased when Firaxis (current developers of

XCOM Enemy Unknown is a turn-based strategy game made by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. Assuming control of the commander of XCOM, an elite force sanctioned by the world's governments to fight off an alien menace, the player participates in two different game modes; the battles against...