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October 9, 2012
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown

XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Based on 2025 Ratings
9
metacritic
Based on 57 Reviews
89
Release date
October 9, 2012
Publisher
Genre
Mode(s)
Single-player, Multiplayer
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Summary

Enemy Unknown couples tactical turn-based gameplay with action sequences and on-ground combat. Recruit, specialize and train unique soldiers and manage your personnel. Detect and interrupt the alien threat as you construct and expand your XCOM headquarters. Direct soldier squads in turn-based ground battles and deploy air units such as the Interceptor and Skyranger. The fight spreads around the world as the XCOM team engages in over 70 missions, communicating and negotiating with governments around the world.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown System Requirements

🤏 Minimum Requirements

OS:
Windows Vista
CPU:
2 GHz Dual Core
RAM:
2 GB RAM
GPU:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater

👍 Recommended Specs

OS:
Windows 7
CPU:
2 GHz Dual Core (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Athlon X2 2.7 GHz)
RAM:
4 GB RAM
GPU:
NVIDIA GeForce 9000 series / ATI Radeon HD 3000 series or greater

XCOM Series Games

X-COM: UFO Defense
+3
December 31, 1994
X-COM: UFO Defense
July 15, 1997
X-COM: Apocalypse
June 15, 1998
X-COM: Interceptor
April 17, 2001
X-COM Enforcer
August 20, 2013
67
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
+2
October 9, 2012
89
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
XCOM: Enemy Within
+1
November 6, 2013
87
XCOM: Enemy Within
XCOM 2
+2
February 5, 2016
86
XCOM 2
June 29, 2016
80
XCOM 2: Shen's Last Gift
August 29, 2017
82
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Trailer

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Screenshots

Critic Reviews

  • 88
    PC Master (Greece) February 6, 2013
    Is it better than the original? No. One can’t imagine X-Com 2012 being an all-time-classic and people still playing with it, months from now (let alone, years). Is it a ‘true’ X-Com game, however? Definitely. Remorseless geeks are in for shivers and swoons when they meet their beloved foes: mind-controlling sectoids, zombifying Chrysalids, Cyberdisks, Ethereals…
  • 95
    Armchair Empire December 18, 2012
    XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a worthy tribute to its progenitor and hopefully the start of something brand new for players who've been dying to get a good squad-based strategy game that lets them not only think, but feel as well.
  • 90
    Hyper Magazine November 14, 2012
    Amazing tactical complexity, satisfying strategic depth; slightly dodgy ending, but your own stories are more important anyway. A modern classic.
  • 90
    Absolute Games November 9, 2012
    For every flaw of XCOM, there is a dozen virtues.
  • 85
    GamingXP November 6, 2012
    The developers of Firaxis did a great job of transfering the old PC-game into the year 2012. The view and the optics are not high-end but they are prefect for this genre, while the speakers, the loading-times and the multiplayer-mode are weak points. The gameplay is deep and tactical and the good old XCOM-setting is omnipresent. XCOM: Enemy Unknown makes round-based strategy socially acceptable again.