Extend XCOM: Enemy Unknown Experience with Second Wave DLC

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Extend XCOM: Enemy Unknown Experience with Second Wave Content


2K Games and Firaxis Games have announced that Second Wave content is now available for XCOM: Enemy Unknown for Windows PC, the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. The Second Wave content allows fans to choose a variety of new gameplay modifiers to enhance the XCOM: Enemy Unknown experience after completing the main campaign. The Second Wave content is available free of charge and is issued via a downloadable title update to XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

The XCOM: Enemy Unknown Second Wave content offers a series of advanced gameplay options that unlock a new level of depth, challenge and replayability. The Second Wave content includes:

° Damage Roulette: Weapons have a wider range of damage.
° New Economy: Randomized council member funding.
° Not Created Equally: Rookies will have random starting stats.
° Hidden Potential: As a soldier is promoted, stats increase randomly.
° Red Fog: Combat wounds will degrade the soldier’s mission stats.
° Absolutely Critical: A flanking shot guarantees a critical hit.
° The Greater Good: Psionics can only be learned from interrogating a psionic alien.
° Marathon: The game takes considerably longer to complete.
° Results Driven: A country offers less funding as its panic level increases.
° High Stakes: Random rewards for stopping alien abductions.
° Diminishing Returns: Increased cost of satellite construction.
° More Than Human: The psionic gift is extremely rare.

The Second Wave content is the second of two add-ons for XCOM: Enemy Unknown. With the Slingshot Content Pack, the first add-on content for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, players meet an enigmatic Triad operative, divert an alien ship’s course, and do battle with the aliens in the skies over China in a new set of linked Council missions. The Slingshot Content Pack includes three new maps tied to the Council missions, a new playable squad character with a unique story and voice, and new character customization options. The Slingshot Content Pack is available for $6.99 (PlayStationNetwork) / 560 Microsoft Points (Xbox LIVE online entertainment network) / $6.99 (Windows PC).

Developed by the strategy experts at Firaxis Games, XCOM: Enemy Unknown has won more than 50 end-of-year awards worldwide to date. Released in October 2012 to wide critical acclaim, XCOM: Enemy Unknown received review scores of 5 out of 5 from GameSpy, 9.1 out of 10 from GameTrailers.com, and 9.5 out of 10 from Game Informer - earning “Game of the Month” honors in their November 2012 issue. In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, players oversee combat strategies and individual unit tactics, as well as base management and resource allocation while playing as the commander of a secret global military organization, XCOM. With equal emphasis on deep strategy and intense tactical combat, XCOM: Enemy Unknown allows gamers to control the fate of the human race by defending against a terrifying global alien invasion.

A free playable demo of XCOM: Enemy Unknown is available for Windows PC via Steam, Xbox 360 and PS3. Gamers who download the demo will be guided through two levels of the single-player tutorial campaign, experiencing the combat controls and effective tactics for defending humanity against the alien threat. The two tutorial missions will also introduce players to the XCOM base, where soldier training and researching alien technology takes place, and offers a chance to experience the tactical and strategic layers of XCOM: Enemy Unknown.