The base management has gone through an overhaul as well, and Firaxis has done well to get rid of the UFO hunting minigame that felt out of place and awkward in the first title. Of course, the battle on the field is just one aspect of management that players will face. Players will find themselves having to readjust strategies on the fly mid-mission more often than not, and that's part of the beauty of XCOM. The faceless oppressors do tend to go on suicide runs more often than one would expect, but we found that the AI performed with pure brutality across all difficulties, and fans accustomed to the high standard of challenge that XCOM is known for won't be disappointed here.
The AI has evidently gone through a large improvement as well, and we found that the ADVENT opposition (that is, the controlling alien power) were often searching for flanking opportunities and ways to maximize their damage output. Likewise, when players start in concealment - a new stealth aspect that is brand new to the franchise - they'll find themselves tediously organizing ambushes to maximize their overwatch impact, and we found the new gameplay complimented XCOM 2 quite nicely. Players will find themselves thinking hard about which classes to bring into a particular firefight, and finding the right combination of soldier types will be a hard-fought trial-and-error process.
XCOM 2 introduces plenty of new gameplay elements that fit this new style, like player-placed extraction zones, the aforementioned ambushes, and a complete restructuring of character classes to reflect the focus on guerrilla combat. This means players will face many timed operations and will find themselves orchestrating ambushes, rather than coming in to combat zones guns blazing. Unlike the last game, players won't have to worry about repetitive maps either, thanks to the title's new procedural generation system. Despite what players may have done in the original game, the in-canon story is that XCOM lost the fight after losing council support in 2015, and has been relegated to a resistance force operating with guerrilla tactics ever since. XCOM 2 is based twenty years after the reboot, long after the world has seceded control to the alien menace. Within XCOM 2, players will find a challenging title that not only improves on the core gameplay experience from the original game, but adds plenty of new elements to keep die-hard fans on their toes. Three years after XCOM: Enemy Unknown took the strategy world by storm and proved that turn-based titles could still shake up the industry, Firaxis has followed up with a successor that is certainly capable of carrying on the name. Firaxis continues its excellent work on the XCOM franchise with XCOM 2, a game that improves upon all the elements of its predecessor and delivers a phenomenal strategic experience from start to finish.
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