This kind of stress-heavy gaming isn’t for everyone.

If you aim your gun at an alien, and the game warns that you have a 64 percent chance of hitting him… well, you can’t really complain when you roll the dice and end up missing, can you? And because your enemies are playing by the same rules, there are times when you’ll get lucky, and an alien will miss a kill shot with an 85 percent chance of success, and your squad will live to fight another day by the skin of your teeth. The game is transparent about everything. And when your troops are getting shredded-and their corpses are immediately revived by the aliens and converted into even more zombie-like enemies you’ll need to dispatch-you’ll definitely feel the despair you might feel if aliens actually conquered the Earth.īut while XCOM 2 is plenty difficult even on the lowest 'Rookie' difficulty, it never really feels unfair. Every decision you make feels consequential, which means you’ll often feel like you screwed up as soon as you’ve committed to a course of action, and scramble to improvise a solution when your original scheme falls apart due to bad planning or bad luck. The game’s official description describes the 'impossible odds' you’ll be facing, and it’s not really an exaggeration. And on the other hand, if you go in thoughtlessly, with guns blazing, you won’t last long.

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