In a series where it was common for soldiers to die often, players of EU/EW would find that they could easily stick with their “A team” throughout the whole game with maybe one or two soldier deaths.
However, despite being a great reboot, Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within didn’t quite feel like the classics from the 90’s.
XCOM: Enemy Within was a DLC overhaul that added plenty more content, items and mission types to the game. The 2012 title XCOM: Enemy Unknown has rebooted this series, bringing back the joys of getting personally attached to your soldiers and watching them die. Fans who played these sequels got to experience the war under water, in futuristic societies split up by factions, in space and even in third person before the series died in the early 2000’s.
There were many sequels to this game in the 90’s where the player commanded the familiar multi-nationally funded alien fighting organization. XCOM Enemy Within (Long War Modded Edition): RNG, Tactics & Death ^10thįrom the 1994 Classic X-COM: UFO Defense (UFO Enemy Unknown), players entered an unforgiving world where they would have to stave off an alien threat from over taking the planet Earth.
