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With Enemy Within, XCOM and X-COM almost entirely part company. He is, in short, about as far away as soldiers get from the mopey-looking, meandering dudes in overalls who characterised X-COM. He can seep healing gas from whatever's replaced his pores. My current squad, for instance, is led by a Mexican in a bright pink mech suit, wearing a matching tribly. With major expansion Enemy Within, it proudly rips open its shirt, throws its spectacles to the wind and brazenly displays the lurid spandex beneath. All this time it's been carrying on like it's a militaristic strategy game (albeit with aliens and robots and psychics), but really, really it's been a superhero game all along. On consoles there is Commander Edition available, which consists of, in addition to the basic version of the game and Enemy Within, two DLCs - Elite Soldier Pack and the Slingshot Content Pack.I've been playing unfinished code for major XCOM expansion Enemy Within.Here are some early impressions for you.

PC version of the game, requires to have XCOM: Enemy Unknown installed.

introduces two new types of aliens: the seeker and the mechtoid, as well as a human organization called EXALT, which aims to use alien technology to take control over the world. The new installment of XCOM also introduces medals that can be awarded to deserving commandos, thereby increasing their combat capabilities. They all have different special abilities. The result is a cybersoldier, available in one of three versions: Warden, Sentinel, and Paladin. Through a series of medical treatments, amputations, and replacing human body parts with cold steel, you adapt your soldier for using Mechanized Exoskeleton Cybersuit, or MEC. You can send there one of your subordinates who then loses his current skills, but gains new ones. In order to unlock it, you must first build a special building.

There are both offensive and defensive bio-modifications available.Ĭonnected to “meld” is also another soldier class introduced in XCOM: Enemy Within - Mec Trooper.

This way soldiers can be genetically engineered. This means that it is now possible to genetically “improve” human body or seamlessly connect it with mechanical components. It is a kind of suspension made up of billions of cybernetic nanomachines – robotic organisms capable of modifying human genotype. One of the most important innovations is a new resource called “meld”.