XCOM Enemy Within

About this game

XCOM Enemy Within is a Xbox 360 simulation game centered on collection and development goals, resource or business management, and repeated adjustment and feedback. Schedules, changing values, or staged goals encourage repeated adjustment, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Interface clarity and state feedback matter more than spectacle, while HD video, DVD streaming, surround audio, HDD installs, and television-distance interfaces need to keep action, state, and text readable. The genre-specific limitation is that explanations, dense menus, real-time systems, or accessory dependencies can add friction. Platform conditions also include disc and HDD installation, storage devices, controller batteries, video connections, resolution and frame rate, Kinect space and calibration, and retired online services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.

Collected in series

XCOM

View all games in this series →

XCOM is a science-fiction strategy series best known for combining squad tactics with decisions made back at headquarters. You choose where soldiers move and when they fire, then invest scarce resources in the research and equipment that may keep them alive next time. Its battles turn a broad struggle over Earth into the fate of a few people under your command.

XCOM Enemy Unknown

Windows PC8.2 / 10

2012

XCOM 2

Windows PC8.8 / 10

2016