In this regard, it feels like it is a true sequel to Enemy Unknown, assuming you already know how to play the game. Aside from a tutorial at the beginning of the game, you really do not have any additional bits of training put in place. In fact, that feeling of minimal direction pervades into the entire experience. It often feels like you have far too many choices on your plate, and often you are given minimal direction to what you should do. It ends up making your choices feel far more meaningful but also makes what was already a stressful game into a frantic, chaotic game. There is a much more hectic feel to the meta game of deciding what to do and what not to do. This is probably the biggest fundamental change to XCOM 2. Meanwhile, you need to decide which areas of the world you want to travel to in order to inflict the most amount of damage to Advent, the occupying alien force. As they build up the Avatar, you have to make strategic strikes against different outposts, as failing to do so will increase Avatar development. As you progress, you discover that the alien force is building a project called Avatar, which seems to be tied into whatever strange experiments they were performing on the Commander. Essentially, you play as a terrorist faction striking against a corrupt government. The plot is incredibly captivating in that you have to build up a resistance force to the government. Their first mission sees them rescuing the Commander and beginning the process of rebuilding XCOM. Some twenty years after Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2 sees the forces of the alien resistance fighting back against the now occupying alien force. Rather than save the world, XCOM fell to the invading alien forces and locked the Commander away. The plot, for those who did not experience the game on the PC, follows the events of Enemy Unknown but with a twist. Now, the console iteration has finally released, albeit with a few major caveats that may turn some players off.īy in large, the game remains the same. While the PC iteration did have Steam controller support, many who experienced the reboot played the game on the console and were forced to wait.

The sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown was built initially for mouse and keyboard. Earlier this year, when XCOM 2 launched on the PC, it was hoped that a console port would come along soon after.

Xcom 2 ps4 controller on steam