
You play as the Commander of the eponymous task force set up to defend Earth from a new extraterrestrial threat, responsible for both the organisation's overall management and directing the ground battles. Re-imagining? Remake? Whatever it is, XCOM brings back and revitalises a classic. XCOM absorbs you into a universe of Tonka toy soldiers and B-movie science-fiction, a rich and smartly streamlined strategy experience that's a hell of a credit to the design of the 1994 original.


I know it's Big Game season, but this is so good I've chalked up 43 hours in four days and want more in the near future.
