With the limited amount of strategy games available for the PS3 it was finally nice to have one. A great game slightly different to other strategy games. But if you like games such as civilisation you'll love this. A must buy for any strategy game lovers.

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

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

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

Buy XCOM, it's a belter. I know it's Big Game season, but this is so good I've chalked up 43 hours in four days and want more in the near future. XCOM absorbs you into a universe of Tonka toy soldiers and B-movie science-fiction, a rich and smartly streamlined strategy experience that's a hell of a...

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

Considering the importance of the mission, there aren't very many people working at XCOM. I know because not only did I hire them, but I spent a few minutes to customize each and every one. I tell them what I want to be researched and they make the weapons that keep the Earth safe.

Updating a classic strategy game without rankling fans of the original can be a tricky business, but Firaxis, the studio behind the Civilization series, takes a calculated risk with its remake of X-COM.

Col. Bertrand "Gunner" Dubois Col. Kavita "Hardcore" Das Maj. Carlos "Hazard" Vega These are just a few of the names that grace the memorial wall of my XCOM base. They represent the losses faced during my campaign, and in turn speak to the XCOM: Enemy Unknown experience as a whole.

Tension-filled campaign; Perfect mix of base operations and actual battles; Meaningful player progression

Lack of map variety

The original X-COM: UFO Defense is one of my favorite games of all time. For a game released back in 1994, it had more depth than any title I experienced before. It had the resource management and productivity of Civilization combined with the turn based tactical combat of Jagged Alliance.