You are humanity’s last hope! XCOM: the board game is a co-operative game of global defense for one to four players that challenges you and your friends to turn back a full-scale alien invasion coordinated in real-time by an innovative and free digital companion app. As the department heads of the elite paramilitary organization known
You are humanity’s last hope! XCOM: the board game is a co-operative game of global defense for one to four players that challenges you and your friends to turn back a full-scale alien invasion coordinated in real-time by an innovative and free digital companion app. As the department heads of the elite paramilitary organization known as XCOM, you command the best equipment and soldiers that the earth can muster. Together, you must balance your efforts to destroy UFOs, research alien technology, defend your base, and uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.
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“That’s XCOM, baby!” XCOM is certainly innovative, and it’s certainly fun. It’s entirely possible to do everything right and still lose because the dice just refuse to go your way. While this might seem unfun or unfair, long time XCOM players (the PC video game series and recent remake for PC and consoles) know this feeling well. That utterly unfair act, however, is where XCOM really shines, and the board game captures this very well. XCOM asks you “Why should you stand a chance against a superior alien…
Let Me Tell You Why You Need To Buy XCOM The Board Game Having never played XCOM the video game, I didn’t know what to expect from XCOM The Board Game. Knowing that Fantasy Flight Games was behind it, however, made picking up this game a no brainer. In XCOM The Board Game one to four players take on specific roles in order to fight an alien invasion of Earth. One player plays the Commander, who must keep track of the budget, deploy interceptor aircraft to fight UFOs, and choose which Crisis card the team will have to deal with. The Chief…
Fantasy Flight does it again! After hearing XCOM was going to get a tabletop game, I was excited given how big a fan I was of the video game series. While very different from the video games, it still stays true to that feeling of constant tension and limited resources while fending off an alien invasion. The digital component (don’t get hung up on “app”, people, it’s not an iProduct) is available through the web or otherwise on pretty much everything that isn’t Linux (again, see web availability). Short version, it’s…