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'XCOM' franchise featured as Amazon PC digital deal of the week

XMNR: PC gamers who love fending off alien invasions one turn at a time should check out Amazon. The online retailer kicked off a new round of digital download PC deals Thursday featuring the entire XCOM franchise from 2K Games.

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knight6265089d ago

Only game iam waiting for is for mafia 2 nothing else intrest me well only Metal gear solid peace walkers but ill get that soon

Conloles5089d ago

Mafia 2 lol all 2K get money from is GTA style games and Nba 2K.

MightyMark4275089d ago

The only game I'm waiting for is Mafia II

killyourfm5089d ago

O_O - Not interested in XCOM?

Syaz15089d ago

nice. waiting to see what mafia 2 and spec ops the line has too offer. not into rts games, so civ 5 not for me, and not too familiar with x-com series.

AliTheBrit195089d ago

I think 2K are probably the best Publisher.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown - A Welcome Rebirth

XCOM: Enemy Unknown rebooted the series back in 2012, and has since inspired numerous new strategy game series to be born.

shinoff2183200d ago (Edited 200d ago )

If someone gets into this I'd recommend getting the enemy within version. It's got all the dlc included so it's the better version. Wish the author would've atleast mentioned it. I didn't see it.

Fantastic game though. Xcom 2 is top notch also. I've spent countless hours in these games.

ModsDoBetter199d ago

Excellent game.
Played to death on PS3 years ago.

S2Killinit199d ago

What other games were inspired by this game?

JL2930199d ago

Gears Of War Tactics, Phoenix Point. Many others.

shinoff2183199d ago

Phoenix point if I remember was created by the original xcom developer or something to that affect. I did try gears tactics some months ago and I just couldn't get into it. It's probably just me

JL2930198d ago (Edited 198d ago )

It was, but it was really closer to the newer XCOM than the older ones. Gears Tactics was okay but was hard to get into knowing there probably wont be a sequel.

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Every XCOM Game Ranked From Worst to Best

BLG writes: "COM games have been around for nearly three decades at this point in some form or another. While XCOM never managed to reach the same heights of success as other long-running franchises, the series definitely has its fair share of fans. With XCOM 3 likely still a couple of years away, we figured we’d reminisce a bit about previous games in the series and try to rank them all from worst to best."

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ravinash737d ago

I would have put the original game at number one if it didn't crash all the time.
Have the suspense was know if it was going to load the next round of not.

Xenial737d ago

I know these are ranking the "XCOM" games. However, Phoenix Point, which is made by the same team, is much better than all of the XCOM games. Just my opinion though. lol

Minimoth736d ago

That's not quite accurate. Phoenix Point was made by Julian Gollop, the guy who designed the original X-COM games. The new XCOM games from 2012 onward were made by Firaxis and/or other subsidiaries of 2K Games.

Dark_Overlord737d ago

Xcom 1&2 above the original o_O ..... hell no

The more recent games were a massive downgrade (1 was an unfinished mess of a game XD)