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The greatest tactics game ever. Still the best they've ever done. Nothing will ever be as addicting.

Utterly fantastic series. XCOM is the real game that real gamers play. Awesome and cool!

An absolute masterpiece and easily the best game in its genre, XCOM 2 does pretty much everything it sets out to do perfectly. There are some minor gripes, but with how good everything i,s it would be insane to actually mention them A must play

It doesn't change the whole genre but really good game in gerneral, much much better than the 1st one.

A great strategy game stuck inside a terrible engine. Forget Advent, the real enemy is the constant technical problems.

Probably the best tactical turn-based strategy game of all time. The replay value is enormous, and the gameplay is incredibly motivating to complete yet another mission, research project or other intermediate objective. WOTC makes XCOM 2 far more versatile and deeper. + Incredibly motivating gameplay + Optimal mix of tactical missions and strategy part (base building, research etc.) + Thanks to WOTC, lots of variety in enemy types and missions + Remains challenging, even with experience (good difficulty levels) - A few too many crashes - The reward for taking out the “Chosen” feels disappointing... more creative rewards would have made a difference. WOTC is from 2017 and I keep coming back. It motivates me even after years to save the earth from the aliens once again... My favorite game in the entire genre.

1. ESTADO DE JUEGO (PARTIDA GUARDADA) Se puede guardar la partida casi en cualquier momento 9 2. LA INFORMACIÓN No tiene informacion compartida 8 3. RECURSOS En el juego hay recursos como el dinero, aleaciones y elerio que usan para conseguir mejores equipos para los soldados, el dinero se utiliza para construir mas instalaciones,tambien estan los datos que se usan para contactar con mas regiones o comprar cosas en el mercado negro 10 4. OBJETIVOS El objetivo en el juego son detener a los alienigenas pero antes hay que primero hacer que las personas en el mundo se den cuenta de sus verdaderos motivos 8 5. TEMA Se trata acerca de una invasion alienigena 8 6. JUGADORES El juego es de jugador vs maquina 7 7. SECUENCIACIÓN El juego es por turnos y hay ciertos momentos que se puede congelar 8 8. AVATAR Se pueden personalizar los soldados que se usan como la cara, ropa, voz, sexo, nacionalidad, nombre 10 9. REGLAS El juego explica las mecanicas basicas como la cobertura, el movimiento, los disparos y la ocultacion y tambien al realizar progresos en la campaña dice los objetivos siguientes 8 10. INTERACCIÓN Contra la IA: es el principal tipo de interacción (enemigos, eventos, sistema Avatar).También hay interacción entre tus propias unidades (lazos entre soldados, fatiga, traumas psicológicos). 9

Best tactical game ever, I got +1640hours ^^ This addon add more challenge,I never got bored

Not many games make impending life-and-death situations meaningful, like XCOM 2, a turn-based tactical strategy game with squad management and base-building mechanics. Each choice you make is crucial, and even a single mistake can have a significant effect on your outcome. This dynamic combat puzzle features ruthless enemies with intelligent AI who show no mercy to the player. Developing a bond with all your badass soldiers and fitting them out as the mission entails is fun in itself, but when everything comes together, it provides a dopamine rush and cathartic relief that few games ever manage. War of the Chosen is a robust expansion that brings about an essential overhaul for XCOM 2. Numerous quality-of-life improvements have been made. Player choice, customization, and mission variety have been greatly expanded. The lore is enhanced by the addition of new hero classes and enemies. An already excellent campaign is built upon with an extra layer of depth and replay value. Not to mention, it improves the performance of the base game by removing the annoying lag spikes and stuttering. This DLC is a must-have for fans who want an even more refined adrenaline rush experience.

God does not play dice

It's a well-crafted turn-based strategy game with a solid combat system. While I didn't get deeply immersed in the world, it was still enjoyable.

Jogo excelente. Muito divertido, e a expansão trouxe quase que um jogo novo. Vale testar novas jogabilidade vom os mods tbm! Recomendo demais!

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This is an expansion done right. Originally priced at $40, this DLC literally doubled the content of the original game and added and entirely new campaign that is equally as long as the first. Beyond that, it added tons of cool new features including new classes, new cosmetics, new mission types, new enemy types, and other cool features like creating propaganda photos. This was something closer to XCOM 2.5 more so than a DLC. It completely revised the campaign structure into a whole new overarching gameplay element and plot. I still highly recommend playing the original first because it’s fantastic, and because you really should experience the vanilla game to get an understanding of the fundamentals as this game is far more challenging and punishing. I gave the vanilla game a 10/10, I am giving this expansion a 9/10 because it breathes so much life on the already incredible vanilla game. With that being said, I love it because it’s more XCOM 2. I found the campaign to be a little worse, instead of the arms race against the aliens, now there are a lot of characters and story arcs thrown in. Some people may prefer that, but I liked feeling like humanity’s last hope was in your hands instead of a Hollywood story. I personally think this style of a campaign just makes it feel like any other game.

With mods game is super 9, otherwise score 8 is more appropriate. I have finished game 5x. Twice without mods, 4x with "tired" mechanic and once without "tired" mechanics include quality of life mods, 3x speed upgame and this deserved 9. Its turn based strategy game, which has its rules and few wtf moments, which you have to get through to learn mechanics. Learning curve is therefore rather steep and mistakes are unforgiving. Start of the game is very hard. Later, when your soldiers gain levels and when you get better armor, game starts to be much less stressful and much more "arcade fun" and that makes smile on your face, when your sharpshooter one hit kill robot across whole map, or when ranger smashes all attackers with blade when he is in front line. Specialist heals and gives defense bonuses and made my soldiers "invincible" many times. There are few more types: psio has most abilities, reapers make game nice tactic battle etc.. Strongest side of game is imo fact, you are commander and your soldiers are counting on your commander skills, so you want them to not only finish mission, but you also want them return home uninjured and alive. That wants you to be better in the game. Its fun and you see on yourself progress in that matter. Actually in last game I have lost only two soldiers, otherwise be prepared to loose much more of them. Game has some for me strange mechanics when enemy can pull you through wall, but you can not shoot them, sometimes robots can go through wall or appear from nowhere. It happens like 3x per game, so ironman, is not for me, nevertheless I was able to finish game without loading game though. Graphics is pretty and thanks to customization menu, you can make soldiers be indentified in game by colors - blue is ranger, red is sniper etc. I was using all mods for speed up game and quality of life. Without those game is frustrating and makes you wander what you can sell, which soldiers can be bond, who is intelligent most etc. Without mods its a mess and very frustrating. I have also removed "tired" mechanics in 5th playthrough in .ini file and game is much more fun and better. With "tired" I have enjoyed game only once, its only prolonging game and make game rather tedious and slower in its pace. Super fun game with mods 9/10 especially 3x speed game, otherwise its good for experience 8/10. I would even consider give 9, but "Lost" in the game is just killing it. Good luck Commander! OLED + 110" screen, surround.

Extremely difficult, but fun, and there are a lot of mods out there for it. Has unlimited replay ability.

My second most played game on steam with a unholy amount of hours played. Truly top class.

I find that this DLC is too much, campaign feels overcrowded. Still, a lot of what they added is good.

There's nothing quite like needing that one critical shot, and you tune up the alien and the green blood is spraying everywhere. It's a wonderful feeling. I love this game.

It's one of the funniest games ever. This is the most immersive expansion pack that complements the deficiencies of the existing XCOM 2. Numerous supported mods make it even more fun. Numerous supported mods make it even more fun.

Fav Games - Skyrim, Witcher 3, Mass Effect Trilogy, Stellaris, Sins of a Solar Empire, Company of Heroes 2, Divinity Original Sin 1+2 *Immersion and/or Strategy for me* Xcom 2 was already a good game, worthy of 88-90 on metacritic. With all the DLC and WotC it is now o

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Play it. I don't care how old it is, nor what games you usually play. Shut up and play it, you'll love it. PS: I'm an old fart so my opinion may be skewed, but I feel like anything I would give a 10/10 would end up being a 6/10 for the mass market. So its at least okay.

This is one of the very few games I come back to again and again. For me it has more replayability than any other game I've ever played (except maybe the Dark Souls games, but it's not even close). This comes down to a few main reasons. Firstly, the tactical squad gameplay hits some kind of sweet spot for me. I love turn-based games because they give me time to think about my decisions, which allows depth without getting hectic. At the same time it's not too complex for me. In comparison to the original X-COMs, I prefer the two-phased action system to the original action point system, and also the streamlined inventory. Secondly, each campaign offers enough unpredictability for me to draw me back in. With the optional ironman mode, which prevents save-scumming, I can find a difficulty setting that gets me into that precious flow where I feel competent, but things can still go awry or even end in catastrophic failure. The procedurally generated maps are varied enough that you won't feel deja-vu, without making the locations a jumbled mess of random tiles. While the overarching campaign progression is the same every time, you get randomized events and research opportunities, and a plethora of new mechanics and soldier classes introduced by the various DLCs. All in all, it mixes everything up nicely and nudges you to do things differently than last time. That said.. without exaggeration, you can get a whole new game when you install the Long War 2 mod (****/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=844674609), which changes almost everything. Not for the faint of heart, but highly recommended! Thirdly, every XCOM operative you lead into battle can be customized by classes which have different stats, and with combat experience upgrade within at least two skill branches. Also, every soldier is a named individual with their own looks and backstory. They can be randomly generated, or you can create your pool of soldiers yourself, or import whole sets of popular characters from movies, games, and cartoon franchises. If I want to be critical, I would have liked a bit more freedom in the strategic geoscape layer. But if I have to choose between the complete freedom of the original X-Com and the slightly rail-roaded system of XCOM 2, I take the latter. While I don't like having to arbitrarily choose between three missions, I hated floundering about in the old games deciding if and when and where to build another base that I then could not staff and equip sufficiently. But that's just me not liking too much complexity, I guess. So, if you have even a passing interest in tactical turn-based games, I think you will like XCOM 2 very much.

Juego perfecto en su genero, muy personalizable, con muchisimos mod, historia profunda, varios modos de juego, muy divertido.

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Had not much luck with my recent shopping and i'm really tired of giving 0 scores. Tried some new games some old ones and finally i got lucky. I found the story surprisingly good, but i may be easy to please at the moment after seeing the TLOU 2 mess. After the first missions i was thinking about quitting and going back to XCOM 2 with Longwar thinking it has more to offer. Then i had the first story mission and it was quite a positive surprise. It was different compared to the usual mission types and i had no idea what would happen. That's what i like in a game, good entertainment. And afterwards the game got more complex and the urge to go back to longwar is gone. Don't think i should compare those two anyway. I feel it's kind of a different experience and both are good in their own way. Would be a 10 for me without the trouble i had installing mods. Steam Workshop worked without problem, but installing other mods was a pain. Seems you have to put them in both mod folders xcom and wotc to get them working with the default launcher and it was several hours of searching the internet and a lot try and error until i had everything running.

I decided to write a separate reviews on the game in general and an DLC about the chosen ones. So, about the chosen ones: An excellent additional test of your skills for the main game, which is organically inscribed in the main game, without distortions of balance and adding, in a way, three mini-bosses. The plot justification of these chosen ones, their characters, their strongholds with "last battles", everything is just wonderful. This DLC gets from me a "good" rating, as I am still disappointed that the percentage randomness still does not take into account logic and context in 2020 year(the shotgun comes close to the enemy with 80% of the hit, and you still miss).

if you like xcom games or fan of strategy and tactics games this is THE PERFECT game for you!

This expansion didn't fix the problems of the base game for me, I preferred the build up and design of the first game.

I enjoyed XCom 2 when it came out, but felt that the game finished a bit too quickly. I had to move swiftly to the endgame before I'd finished a lot of research, to stop Advent completing the Avatar project. I waited until WOTC was on sale at Steam before giving it a try, and (as others have said), it really re-invents the game. Now more challenging, more varied and more enjoyable. There are still a few **** that stopped me giving it a straight 10: missions are a bit repetitive; dialogue even worse; and there are some odd annoyances -- such as Dark Events that threaten you with increased Chosen activity even after you've eliminated them all. But, overall, it's a lot of fun. If you're too slow (and too old in my case) for real-time strategy and games that rely entirely on quick reactions, this is for you. it's a game that makes you think and has enough depth to make it more than just blasting aliens. Highly recommended.

Hi I am Xcom veteran player. I finished Xcom 2 long ago just have chanced to play WOTC. I would say I really liked it at first but then, many things started to annoy me. First of all, Lost (zombies) are boring. It requires very few same strategies to handle, like stay away, keep your gun full and unload them all in one turn. Those zombies are only fun for first few missions, then it become tiresome to deal with. Second, Bondmate (why ?), this system , again, seems interesting at first. Then later, you will notice that you have spent too much time for this matchmaking. Because of its good benefits, everytime bringing solider, you will likely to check who his bondmate is, or has good compatibility with him, if his bondmate is still tired, then should we wait or ..... bla bla bla thinking. In the end, does this system make the game more fun ? NO, it is quite opposite. Moreover, compatibility is RNG, something you cannot control. When you start the game and have team that has bad compatibilty with each others, you gonna feel like WTF, should I restart my campaign or what ?. Third, the new three classes, though everyone feel creative and fun to play. You are limited to have only one of each. (and later, another one) so total is only 4. Seriously, why ?? . why can't we just recruit them like normal soliders. In WOTC, there is tiring system so you need like 3 teams (6x3 = 18 guys) to play this game efficiently. 4 (and only 1 per class) is not enough at all. Fourth, AP system. Why did they add this ? if you want to reward player for good flanking skill, just give XP bonus is enough. AP system is powerful tool, but again this based on RNG ! every solider can have different skill and YET also different in talent (RNG again). Why did you make too much RNG happen ? moreover this AP system can crossover skill of other classes, with mod in, you can make your soliders substitute some class entirely, like Ranger that can use shreder + chain shots skill of Grenadier, which become quite OP. I think the good part of class system is that everyone has his role, but now you destroyed it with this AP system, also destroyed the balance. Lastly, Resistance ring are powerful new facility, but it is about based management and it does not really add fun to gameplay. I am ok, but I feel like we don't need it. Vanila Xcom2 's base management is already complicated as it is. There is no need to add further. *** By the way, what I like about this DLC is the New chosens. Those three guys are very fun to fight against and they were geniusly intergrated into gameplay. New enemies and new maps are also welcome. *** In sum, War of the chosen added a lot of stuff in the game, which worth calling expansion and those things were intregated well in gameplay too. However, most of them does not make the game better, rather it makes the game more RNG and more base management. I am sad to see XCOM2 in this state. They should just add chosens and three new class availiable for normal recruit and new enemies new maps that should be enough.

They could have added 20% more content than this and called it XCOM 3 and I would have heaped praise on it. The fact that an expansion does so much to augment the experience, and does it all so right, I have no words. If you enjoyed XCOM at all you're in for a treat. If you've never played it, this is the right place to hop on, because WOTC really takes XCOM into a place where it can be talked about with the all time greats in gaming like Age of Empires and The Witcher 3.

War of the Chosen brings a whole new concept to the game but unfortunately the rest of the game is quite similar and repetitive once you've gone through the initial changes. If you've played xcom2 vanilla, you might find too many thing's that are pretty much the same.

(Ironman: 1 Move 1 Save, *prevents save scumming* (LOS: Line of Sight) Time spent with the game: -Logged in 1000+ hours over the span of 2 years Finally summary of XCOM 2 WOTC: -At its core wonderful masterpiece, the best turn based strategy game I have ever played. -Glitched to the nines with 0 fixes. -Losing is a part of the game, which I am fine with on Legendary difficulty, but there is nothing more frustrating then playing and investing over 20+hours into a Ironman run and losing the game because ****. Glitches as follows: -Enemy LOS broken, enemy randomly sees through walls, engage you while in concealment even tho you have not broken line of sight the computer will glitch and say you have been revealed when you have not touched the LOS squares. -Lancers LOS broken, enemy can attack players without having LOS, 1 shot kills -Played until the end, almost beat it, over 50+ hours invested, game crashed, Ironman save at crash point, no way to recover, game breaking bug, Developers KNOW and are AWARE of this issue have done nothing -Mandatory missions, that last over on some maps 2+ hours, game feels like a hard grind that never gives you a break -Graphics are excellent, Story Line is amazing, lead stars from Star Trek Generations as voice overs, over all the game is superior in every way shape and form, but due to game breaking bugs that make the game unplayable, this game gets a 4. -Simple patches, to fix the game breaking bugs, is all that would be required. *good enough* mentality no longer is acceptable. We pay BIG money for AAA games, we expect the iron upon the shirt, we expect the full service. Send a message to the gaming companies, hold them to account, let us stop paying $$$ for garbage errors.

Xcom 2 was great. War of the chosen is perfected. It's almost as if the devs had to rush out Xcom 2 in order to make a publishing date. Then after Xcom 2 release, they sat down and decided that they can now give Xcom 2 the polish they believe the game deserves. Once they completed this polish it was released as DLC named War of the Chosen. i honestly believe that War of the Chosen is the game the Devs wanted to release when first embarking on the Xcom 2 development journey. War of the Chosen is amazing. The best tactical, turn based game i've played.

When you install both XCOM 2 and War of the Chosen, WotC is deactivated by default. I'd really like to know who's genious idea that was. I noticed it like 10 hours into the game. **** you for wasting players' time like that.

This elevates the base game with a host of new features and enemies that further enhance an already amazing game!

Its always amazing how generous these so called critics are in their praise of these mainstream games. I can but assume they spent a quick half hour on the titles in many instances. XCom War of the Chosen can best be described as a "hot mess". Basically it takes the chaotic, disorganised game play of Xcom 2 and for the most part adds in more adversaries in general and "boss" characters you have to defeat. The absolute lack of balance makes for annoying game play not helped by the incessant cut scenes and prattling interruptions from your second in command and goading skype style calls from the Chosen. Its aggravating stuff that at times leaves you wondering why you are playing at all. 4/10 from me.

Age 34 Fav Games - Skyrim, Witcher 3, Mass Effect Trilogy, Stellaris, Sins of a Solar Empire, Company of Heroes 2, Divinity Original Sin 1+2 *Immersion and/or Strategy for me* Xcom 2 was already a good game, worthy of 88-90 on metacritic. With all the DLC and WotC it is now one of the very best strategy games ever made (I've played just a few of them..) It is seriously fantastic and has so much content, so many good ideas. I'm a bit disappointed in the 7.7 user review here.. This game is now atleast as good as D:OS2 but marked harshly... But I believe it's all due to one thing. THE GODDAMN DIFFICULTY LEVEL!!! It's BIGGEST, WORST, UNACCEPTABLE MISTAKE FIRAXIS. Most people are not strategy game veterans like myself and my mates that love this game. They get hammered by Xcom's four difficulty settings. Please change the first three firaxis, people are disliking your game because your difficulty settings don't match their expectations and they are getting frustrated, this would have earned you several more points on metacritic. No one wants to select rookie difficulty, do an analysis, it's a psychological thing. Rookie - This is really normal difficulty in any other game - you don't have an easy mode! Veteran - This is the second mode, this is really hard mode Commander - This is insane difficulty, for someone who has over 100 hours in the game Legend - Only for lock-ins playing the game with a rock band controller, full back xcom tattoo and a whip setting on the bench, for when they kill their soldiers

Basically XCOM 3, which is a great thing. I've really been enjoying the new mechanics, maps, and chosen. Just like Civilization xpacs, this really updates the entire game and genuinely is almost XCOM 3. It still has some minor performance issues (even on my 1080ti), and the hit percentages thing is even worse now because of the random pop-ins of super-powerful aliens that are nearly impossible to beat.

I've only just recently gotten into the XCOM series after my friend gifted me the first game, after putting 41 hours into that I knew I needed the second game so I grabbed the deluxe edition plus War of the Chosen as I wanted to experience everything the game had to offer. I finished the game today after putting 80 hours into it, so it was definitely money well spent. Overall I much preferred the sequel, it was improved in almost every way, with big additions, features and more subtle changes that made for a very enjoyable experience. It really felt like the devs learned a lot from the first game, and implemented a lot of fixes and changes the community wanted. One big area of improvement are the cut-scenes, they're very high quality this time around, and they run smoothly as they're videos, and not rendered in engine like in XCOM 1 (30fps videos look fine, 30fps in engine does not), they really helped to tell the story which was interesting, the voice work was also fantastic. There is one area where XCOM 2 sadly falls short and that's performance, the game is not optimised well at all, you will find countless people complaining about this issue so please don't think it's just me. Any form of explosions will cause big drops in frame rate, as will anything that causes debris to spawn. Also certain mission/mob types also tank the frame rate, it's just not good enough. The game also "freezes" quite often while it calculates, something that never happened in the first game, the issue gets worse the further you get into the game as abilities and enemies get more complex. It really did hurt the game for me, so much so it went from a weak 9 into a strong 8. That being said I still obviously enjoyed it a lot and highly recommend it, just be aware it does have technical problems if you're bothered by that sort of thing.

When I played XCom 2 I was worried at how modders could change enough the game to make it worth playing again (and having surprises and not knowing what would come ahead). Was expecting something like Long Run was for XCom 1. But then the makers came with this addon that seems almost like another game (some are calling it XCom 2.5) with the introduction of a few very well thought elements. The Choosen are great! The missions are way improved, it is a new game. I only was a bit disappointed with the last mission, its too much like the first one. But hey, they have to save some ideas for XCom 3!

The only strategy here is to play with the phone while the numerous enemies make their long turns through numerous, and repetitive, cutscenes. Really: it's boring. The other "small" problem is that - after waiting - you have little to reason because almost every mission has limited turns.

Beautiful, technical and brainstorming game, especially on hard mode. To me it was fairly addictive so you may want to check the clock in time to time. The only downside is that I would've preferred it to be longer.

Jagged Alliance 2 is still better. It is surprising, that this game still have some technical issues like: freezes, weapons' electro dance after enemies death (due to bad collision system). It should also have better system to speed up or skip shooting animations etc. as it gets dull and time consuming after hours of gameplay. Overall, still lots of improvements to make, devs has to focus more on the story, story missions and unique maps design. Players like procedural generation, but it is still not enough (the container with a car that crashed on one of its wall in every abandoned city map...).

Five Word Review: A great thing made greater. Favorite Thing: The Chosen and a nice component and challenge to otherwise standard missions. Least Favorite Thing: Very little changes to the base game, story, etc. Date Completed: 2017-09-30 Playtime: 60h (100% research) Enjoyment: 8/10 Recommendation: If you haven't played XCOM 2 before or it has been a while, yes.

Wanted to like this, loved Xcom 2, and looking at the features it looked great. However, on loading it up and jumping in, I just got annoyed really quickly, the map is just too busy, too much crap shouting for attention, too much clutter, rather than feeling fun it felt like the game was constantly hassling me, and not in a "its a dangerous race to save the earth" kind of **** a "lets just keep bugging the player endlessly" kind of way. It was so annoying, just quit. And everytime I go to log in....I just cant bring myself to. Its killed Xcom for me.

Very addictive game. This expansion utilizes the same base story from X-Com 2, but adds 3 new soldier classes (it's more like 3 heroes, as you can't train more of then), 3 bosses (The Chosen) that attacks you on missions that are on their turf on the map, a lot of new missions and mechanics. Like the TheWaffle said, the new content, along with the old, is presented too fast and you get overwhelmed by the information, which may be hard for new players. All in all is one of my favorite games of all time, you can easily spend a great amount of time playing it.

This expansion makes XCOM2 harder and more unforgiving, giving also so much content with the new factions and the choosen messing around. the new training system, the soldiers which buddy together and get special bound abilities make the strategic dimension of this game even larger than before. New Enemies make the game harder, your soldiers will die. a lot. to be mentioned the new options, when you start a new campaign, to double the avatar project meter and the mission timers, since the game gets harder, i really suggest to do so. nice compatibility with the precedent must-have expansion Shen's Last Gift and the one of the Vahlen superaliens. you can choose to have a simpler experience by adding the extra content (sparks, weapons and the three alien kings) without having the dedicated missions. that's good, after all, since the experience would be extra hard if not made so. All and all, a phenomenal must buy game and expansion.