XCOM: Enemy Within

XCOM Enemy Within on PS3 is a collection of the expansion Enemy Within and the original game XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Enemy Unknown was the reboot of the popular 90's games with modern graphics and fitting revisions. The game puts you in the commander's seat of the XCOM initiative, a collaborative effort between a dozen nations to try to repel invasion by a hostile and poorly understood alien force, and you lead your troops into turn based combat in a rather classic isometric 3/4ths view. This is an old fashioned way of tackling a strategy game, and in a lot of ways this game feels appropriately old fashioned, but is still modern and very engaging.Normally if I were to do a review, I would start to break things down into graphics, sound, controls, and overall fun. I don't know that this would be fair to XCOM. This is a great game, and I don't want to give you any impression otherwise but the game's strength in this case does not lie in amazing graphics or innovation. This game is based on an old foundation that dates back to before real time strategy and before all games needed to be a first or third person shooter. The graphics are passable and the controls are functional. The sound for the game is actually good in all areas (voice acting, music, and sound effects) but by no means exceptional.Where this game really excels is the experience. This game definitely has a "tetris" mechanic. In the big picture, you have to manage your international relations and balance how you are helping each continent to maximize your resources. You cannot hold out indefinitely. You will eventually lose unless you advance the story and win.In the smaller game, when you are playing the actual battles, you are played onto a number of random maps with random mission types. This definitely mixes it up and keeps the game from becoming stale. Enemy Within actually adds a number of these maps, and a number of new mission types (as you fight the Exalt, alien sympathizers). As commander in this game, you have a squad (or a platoon, really) of men and women from around the world who fight for you and who advance from being a generic soldier into being a lowly, specialized soldier, and eventually to perhaps genetically altered, cybernetic, psychic warriors with substantial abilities. The game offers you a good number of ways to customize how this is done even, and for replay-ability is quite fun. Turning on all sorts of options can really change the way the game is played, and will create unique soldiers. These soldiers can die too. They can die rather quickly and unluckily. Its hard to tell you how enjoyable the challenge is. It creates some great tension, and at times it can be really frustrating. Getting through it, though, advancing your characters, finding success, it is rewarding.I'll give you the only things I can say about it that could be seen as flaws. The largest is that the ending of the game is just 'fine.' For a game that is really so fun and has this laborious build up, the end can seem a little less epic than maybe it deserves to be. In terms of the system, if there are any errors, it is just that sometimes your chance to hit your enemy is sometimes confusing as the game has sort of sketchy line-of-sight calculations. They are consistent and predictable, for the most part, it just sometimes feels like you should be able to hit things more.Where this game exceeds Enemy Unknown is the number of new random elements that are added to the game. As mentioned before, XCOM: Enemy Within has the additional elements of dealing with the Exalt. You can hunt them out or you can try to lay back and let them find you, or you can do some combination of the two. The core of the game is essentially the same as with Enemy Unknown. The ending is the same. To that extent, if you're playing this on a console and you already bought Enemy Unknown, you might feel a little like you're overpaying for this game. In a way, you probably are, and maybe you should try to get it second hand, but if you liked Enemy Unknown, you will really love the additions to Enemy Within. I don't feel so bad about it, and I'm not holding that against this game because my opinion of the game is simply my opinion of the game, not the business decision. I also received the previous iteration on PS+, so I felt like it was pretty ok to send them $30 to support, hopefully, the creation of more XCOM games. The game also has a number of additional random requests from the council, which is nice. Actually, one of the missions is my favorite of all the things I've ever done in XCOM, but I don't want to ruin it.The long and short of it is, if you like turn-based strategy, you should probably buy this game.

Xcom Enemy Within is an updated version of Enemy Unknown. Enemy Within greatly improves on the somewhat simpler version of Xcom that was Enemy Unknown.The series, for those unfamiliar with it, is based on leading a secret covert operations group, known as Xcom, as it attempts to secretly defend earth from an alien invasion. The game does allude to all of this being top secret, which seems a bit ridiculous as you play through the game, but that doesn't really matter to the gameplay. You act as supreme commander of the Xcom project, managing and building up a base of operations, sending out satellites to detect alien presence, managing the happiness of funding countries, researching and leading squads of up to six soldiers into battle that can then be leveled up as they gain experience.The game, like any other game, has evolved with its modern iteration. It is a sharp, fun and responsive squad based strategy game that has streamlined a lot of the annoying micromanagement features of past games, but has also simplified things and put a cap on squad member leveling up. It is a more accessible, but simpler game than past generations.The game, in the most basic sense, plays like this. You have a base that you expand with various modules that you can build into your secret mountain hideaway. As you research new technologies new modules open up for upgrades or more efficient research. You launch satellites to gain funding from the various nation groups across the globe and to spot alien incursions. When incursions happen you deploy a squad of soldiers into a tactical, squad based "seek cover and advance" type gameplay that dictates a methodical approach to combat. As missions are failed or ignored panic will rise. Victories reduce panic. There are a handful of main story missions for advancing the game that are unlocked by certain milestones in the game, but the vast majority of missions are procedurally generated battles with aliens. There are basic research items, but as you kill aliens and do autopsies, capture and interrogate aliens, or shoot down and capture alien ships more research items are unlocked to gain better weapon and armor and new gadgets.There are four basic classes. Assault, heavy (machine gunners), snipers and support (medics) which each have their own skill trees that you can utilize as they level up. All four classes are needed across the game to face different situations. Medics to stabilize downed squad members, snipers to provide cover, heavies to deal huge damage in short bursts and assault troops to act as front line combat soldiers.. Later in the game psionic abilities are added which add some more variety to your soldiers, but psionic abilities are rare and only have three tiers. In Enemy Within a new addition is Meld which can be used to upgrade soldiers genetically or cybernetically. This adds a lot more variety to the class structures, allowing you to turn your favorite soldiers into cybernetic MEC's or upgrade them genetically to improve their abilities and durability. Personally, I found MEC's not terribly useful and fairly resource intensive in terms of Meld, which is a very limited resource, but the genetic alterations had great affects and were well worth the cost.The Enemy Within expansion also adds a good variety of missions if you count the smaller addons with it. There are new covert operations to locate and eliminate a secret organization known as Exalt that is out to hamper your efforts. There is also another series of missions focused on a Chinese criminal orgainization. Overall, they are nice addition of scripted, story missions.The aliens you face are variations on a few base models, but the variations offer enough change that the game continually changes and evolves as you proceed. New challenges are thrown at you every few missions that force you to think more carefully about how you combat the alien menace.The game looks good. It won't blow anyone away. It has its own style, but nothing that really sticks out as uniquely distinct. The technical side of the graphics are good enough and slightly better than your run of the mill top down game. Sound effects are well done and add to the experience and the voice acting is well done with squad members reacting to the battle.The controls on the PC are very easy to work with. Consoles are also surprisingly good, though moving the cursor around with the joysticks can be slow. The iPad controls are cumbersome and you can end up moving soldiers to areas you don't mean to because you have to press an area twice to move there.Enemy Within is a much improved version of Enemy Unknown. It adds additional complexity, options, missions types and squad improvements to the game. Ultimately, the game is still on the simple side, but the added content really pushes the game into the replayable multiple times enjoyment level. I would recommend for strategy fans who may have been turned off by Enemy Unknown's simplicity.

El juego es muy bueno si te gusta la estrategia, tiene buena dificultad incluso en el modo normal y adicionalmente ya contiene el DLC.

Excelente juego, sigo enviciado, tengo que superar modo veterano

muy buen juegollego rapidísimosin ningún problemaempaque y caja bien selladosel pago paso sin problemaslo recomiendo mucho