10/18/2012

The XCOM Ironman Diaries, Part 1 IGN All

If there's one thing I don't take any crap from, it's virtual aliens. Come on then, XCOM: Enemy Unknown: let's do this properly. Impossible difficulty. Ironman mode. EARTH DEFENCE FORCE, ASSEMBLE!



Hmm... that didn't go so well. But as any fule kno, Classic difficulty is where it's at in a strategy game like this, and if you ask me the aliens are cheating on Impossible anyway. So let's roll from the top. Over three instalments of this diary, I'm going to take down the alien menace on Classic, in Ironman mode, no messing. I've placed the XCOM main base in Asia, reasoning that we want trooper upgrades as soon as possible – this continent's bonus reduces their cost - and as we'll be losing a lot of operatives, softening the blow is paramount. I'm a realist.


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