Thursday, June 20, 2013 (01:04) | Bastiaan Vroegop
XCOM: Enemy Unknown for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch appeared. In the game you control a band of soldiers who compete in tactical depth battles against aliens. It is perhaps the most remarkable title this week in the App Store appears. XCOM has a whopping price tag of € 17.99, but on the other hand, the iOS game is almost identical to the same PC and console game that appeared in 2012.
dating from the 2012 game at the moment also sold for other platforms, for more than 20 euros. So iOS players pay no more than gamers that go with the game to work on other platforms. Yet there is an essential feature in the iPhone and iPad ga me is missing: you can not compete against other players, something on the PC and consoles is possible. Developer 2K says this in a later update or want to add.
Download: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (€ 17.99, universal, iOS 5.0 +)
Tactical war game
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is full of soldiers with big guns and grenades, but it is primarily a tactical game. Each character on the field is alternately turned on, giving you time to think carefully about your choices, but once a soldier is taken under fire by an enemy, it is also quickly end exercise. A few shots and a character is dead – never to return in later levels. It is therefore important to place your troops safely behind cover while you infiltrate enemy territory in a smart way.
Between missions you choose where your soldiers should specialize in and you build your base, freeing up new weapons and technologies to develop. Because you are constantly strengthening your team, it may be a hard blow when a soldier dies in the field. Especially if you have named your team like us to your friends and colleagues. Meanwhile, you also have to choose which countries you to the rescue when an alien invasion and who you leave to their fate, which parts of the world decay and your allies gathers or loses.
last year received XCOM on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 high praise from both gamers and the press. This led to multiple websites stake nominated for ‘Game of the Year, a title that they include at Giant Bomb managed to drag. Within On review aggregator Metacritic XCOM has an average score of 89.
The high price will probably clarify whether a reasonably new, profound and full game as can be for the price the game on other game platforms. XCOM sold on iOS At the moment because there are relatively few game publishers 18 euro dare to ask for their iOS games. The Japanese Square Enix has occasionally have games that have similar prices apply, but this quickly becomes as critical given that these are ports of older games again.
2K Games XCOM works according to the iPad 2 and newer, iPad mini, iPod touch fifth generation and iPhone 4S and newer.
Download: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (€ 17.99, universal, iOS 5.0 +)
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