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  • ‘XCOM: Enemy Within’ EXALT Faction Previewed

    Back in August, 2K Games and developer Firaxis announced XCOM: Enemy Within, a big update add-on for last year’s hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown. At the time of the announcement, the focus of the content seemed to be new soldier powers. Players will be able to train their soldiers in a variety of new biologically-engineered powers or suit them up with heavy “MECs.”

    Today 2K released another teaser for Enemy Within, this time showing a different side of the content. Players will, during their revamped campaigns, come up against EXALT, a rouge group of humans who are using alien technology for their own ends. Scanning for EXALT hideouts takes time, but finding one means sending in soldiers on a covert mission to destroy their operations.

    The new trailer shows plenty of the content already previewed for Enemy Within. It also shows, however, what appear to be new story scenes set inside the XCOM base. It seems that the XCOM organization itself may have been infiltrated by EXALT:

  • ‘XCOM: Enemy Within’ Gameplay Revealed in New Video

    Earlier this week, 2K Games and developer Firaxis further teased XCOM: Enemy Within, the first expansion for the popular turn-based strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The contend features new enemies, new weapons, and, above all, new upgrades for soldiers. The upgrades include genetically engineered bioweapon powers and full cybernetic mech suits.

    Today, Firaxis has provided a full gameplay video for the new content. Enemy Within’s lead designer, Ananda Gupta, narrates the gameplay video seen below. The video begins by showing off the mech trooper, which can wreck aliens with brute force and a mini gun. The genetic powers are then revealed, including superhero-like athletic feats and psychic firewalls. Of course, enemies have gotten upgrades as well, and the video ends with a pending mech-on-mech battle.

    XCOM: Enemy Within is scheduled for a November 12 release in North America, for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 consoles.

  • XCOM Mechs Teased in New ‘Enemy Within’ Trailer

    With the launch of The Bureau: XCOM Declassified now a quickly-fading memory, 2K has turned its attention back to the main XCOM strategy game franchise. The publisher and developer Firaxis recently revealed the first full expansion for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, titled XCOM: Enemy Within.

    Enemy Within will feature all-new weapons, enemies, and soldier upgrades. Those soldier upgrades are where the real gameplay twists will come in. Players can now upgrade soldiers using two different upgrade paths: genetic engineering or cybernetic augmentation. The genetic path upgrades soldiers with bioweapon capabilities, giving them powers through enhanced limbs, eyes, skin, and brains. The cybernetic path upgrades soldiers using a new “Mechanized Exoskeletal Cybersuit” (MEC). That’s right. Enemy Within will have mechs.

    A new trailer for the content was released this week. It shows off both of the new upgrade paths, as well as the new extraterrestrial enemies that make these upgrades necessary:

  • ‘XCOM: Enemy Within’ Officially Announced

    ‘XCOM: Enemy Within’ Officially Announced

    2K Games released The Bureau: XCOM Declassified this week, to mediocre reviews. Now that the publisher has finished promoting that strange amalgamation of strategy and third-person shooting, it has now turned its attention to the game that revitalized the XCOM brand last year.

    XCOM: Enemy Within was officially announced this week at Gamescom. The title is an expansion to last year’s hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown. It will feature new weapons, soldier upgrades, and enemies. 2K and XCOM developer Firaxis claim that seeing all the new content will require “three to four” playthroughs. Enemy Within launches on November 12 (November 15 in Europe) for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

    “The incredible critical and consumer response to XCOM: Enemy Unknown inspired us to offer new content that would deepen the strong bond that has been created for our XCOM brand,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “Firaxis Games is renowned for delivering massive, highly immersive PC expansions in the Civilization series, and XCOM: Enemy Within builds on that lineage and expands the experience for console gamers as well.”

    A new resource, called “Meld,” is collected from aliens on the battlefield to unlock the new content in-game. New upgrades include mech suits and genetically-engineered powers for soldiers.