So you choose where you want to visit, when you want to move it, but there’s always a cost to it. You have to expand your resistance and grow it and you also have a mobile base. Now when you go to the GSV in XCOM 2 there are a multitude of decisions to make. On Enemy Unknown you’d choose your research, build an item or two maybe build a facility then you’d scan time and wait for your next mission. On the strategy side we’ve created an open ended world which allows for more choices on the GSV. There are layouts that can have an infinite amount of arrangements, they’re no longer static maps, they have beautiful dynamic lighting which isn’t placed in any more and also procedural objectives so the gameplay is different. On the tactical side we made procedural maps which we did not have in Enemy Unknown. What we wanted to do was make the game a little more open-ended and a little more proactive, so we did two things on a very high level involving the strategy side and the tactical side.

The aliens took over the world and Earth is an alien occupied planet now, so it’s your job to rebuild the resistance. AnswerFiraxis: XCOM 2 takes place about 20 years after the events of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, so we’re saying XCOM failed.

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