There's this magical moment that all XCOM 2 players experience. A member of your elite squad of sci-fi planetary defenders holds their machine gun right up at the face of some alien foe, probably a ...

Enemies are made to stand in the way of players, to give a means of pushing through and achieving the ultimate goal of beating the video game. How these enemies must be defeated are as varied as the ...

New soldiers on the soldier list. You will gain access to two (a Reaper and a Skirmisher) of the characters introduced with the War of the Chosen add-on at the start of the campaign. After few in-game ...

These are the stereotypical aliens people have come to think of and History Channel has become all about. They’re lean, mean, and they have a huge cranium. Sectoids are fairly easy to kill off, but ...

Psi Lab allows you to train a rookie to become a Psi Operative. To unlock the fifth soldier class (Psi Operative) in the game , you will have to do several things - but as you can imagine, it's well ...

Video game critics are rarely allowed more than a few days to power through the subjects of their reviews before punching out impressions in a rush to catch the initial wave of public interest as ...

I'm playing and diarising XCOM 2 [official site] on Commander difficulty in Iron Man mode, using characters based on the staff of RPS, replaced by readers as and when they die or go out of action.

XCOM 2 offers some of the best tactical/turn-based experiences you could find in the genre, improving immensely over the first game. Worrying about how to handle things out in the field is great and ...

Unlock your inner mental powers in XCOM 2 to earn the special Psi Operative class. This powerful unit can’t be found naturally through promotions like regular soldiers. Instead, you’ll need the right ...

It’s been said that war never changes, but in the bleak future of the XCOM 2 universe, it definitely has. We’ve already dug into the evolution of the guerilla resistance, but XCOM’s sword-wielding ...