The UI is cleaner, although still complicated and without a tutorial, and you can still rename your squad of soldiers, which we love, but also means it hurts more when they die. And it’s totally worth the $25, although it’s one of the most expensive games out there.Xenonauts is far closer to the original 1994 X-COM: UFO Defense than the modern XCOM games - in fact, it’s essentially a faithful indie remake, steep difficulty curve and all, with a few much-needed quality of life tweaks. ![]() Combine that with all the missions, the maintenance, and the story you need to cover, plus four DLC packs included in the game, you’re looking at one of the most complete games on the App Store. The strategy in the game is one of the best in any mobile game. The bottom line is not if you should play XCOM 2 or not, because you totally should. Although you need to keep in mind, there are a lot of cutscenes, especially in the beginning. If you don’t care about how the cutscenes look, you won’t have any issues when playing this game. The good news is, the gameplay itself didn’t suffer from any low-quality graphics, and it ran as smooth as I’d expected. We've spoken with Feral Interative, and they've stated that everything runs at full speed from that point upward, for clarification. Fortunately, if you have any doubts, there’s an email in the game description, if you want to ask them about your device before buying it. I’m sure they made their own tests, but I wouldn’t recommend you spend $25 for this game under those circumstances. If you go to the XCOM 2 Collection App Store page, you’ll see the team says this game can run on at least an iPhone 7 Plus. To clarify, I used an 11-inch 2020 iPad Pro, arguably one of the iPads with the best performance on the market right now. I decided to add some screenshots of the cutscenes here so you could see how hard it was for my iPad to run these graphics, and it did it with some compromises in quality. Plus, the graphics on this game might be too much for some iPhones and iPads to handle. Plus, Feral Interactive recommends you to have 17GB of free space to avoid any installing issues. If you want to play XCOM 2, you’ll need to have at least 8 GB of storage. It’s a handful, and it’s awesome.ĭespite all the things that make XCOM 2 unique, the first word that comes to mind when talking about the game is “demanding”. ![]() You’ll need to learn about positioning, abilities, how your guns work, and what your soldiers’ abilities are. Once you’re on the field, you’ll understand how complicated it might be, especially at first. ![]() Depending on where your troops are located, you can shoot, hack some devices, and even throw grenades. You’ll move your soldiers across the battlefield and place them in the right position to attack the aliens. You’ll be dropped on the battlefield, and you’ll have to plan your strategy to complete the mission. You’ll go to missions with a few other soldiers. There’s also a more tactical side of the game. Crafting new items, and raking your soldiers is extremely helpful when you're on the battlefield. Taking care of your base, and assigning jobs to all your crew isn’t the most exciting part of the game, but it does help in the long run. Think of it as a more complicated version of Fallout Shelter. You’ll have to take care of the XCOM base, make sure every department is doing their job to improve the base, your weapons, and giving ranks to the soldiers who need it. XCOM 2 focuses on two main types of gameplay. You’ll start doing that literally 1 minute after you’re rescued, and they pull an alien chip out of your skull. It’ll be your job to complete missions, recruit more fighters, and run the base all by yourself. You’ll play as the commander, a recently rescued, well, commander, who’s a key part of the XCOM organization. The XCOM force is still alive and it’ll do everything it can to stop the alien invasion. In a future where the world’s being controlled by beings from outer space, many humans decide to live under their control while the ones who try to fight are quickly eliminated. ![]() If you’re familiar with the XCOM franchise, then you need to know introductions for this. That includes XCOM 2 Collection, a game brought by Feral Interactive that’s trying to replicate that and push mobile gaming even further. Back in the day, Infinity Blade showed us what mobile gaming could become and that opened the doors for many other graphically-intensive games. Every now and then, we’ll see a game on the App Store that pushes the hardware of iPhones or iPad to another level.
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