While making landings and sending your warriors out to take the fight to enemies (generally vastly outnumbered) is a big part of it, managing the development of the ship, its facilities, and movements are just as critical, giving the game a simulation-like angle that plays out in real time. Once your jailbreak is over, you’ll be given command of a ship that serves as your mobile command center in order to start taking back the Earth.

You’ll need to collect resources, intel and the right people to make that happen, and the choices that you need to make to do so are not always the easiest… as you would hope for a game that is trying to convey an atmosphere of complete, global oppression.

Taking control of a silent protagonist known as the Commander, you’ll be discovering this post-conquered world and making decisions to try and boost a tiny (but you hope growing) resistance. Kicking things off with a jailbreak in order to show new players the ropes, you’re introduced to a world where humanity has already lost its war with the aliens (as depicted in the original, which is not available on Switch), and is now effectively subservient to them. This includes XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, which is not a sequel or an add-on but instead is a re-imagining of XCOM 2 with enough new additions to warrant it being its own title. Compiling all of that into one neat package, fans can now take it with them whenever they go on the Nintendo Switch. Having originally released in early 2016, XCOM 2 has seen several ports and additions over the years.

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