It's a board game with a companion app, one that can be run inside a web browser or on a tablet. The review from Polygon carries this idea even further and states it a bit more strongly: “The forthcoming XCOM board game gets the balance right, letting four players co-operate in saving the world from an alien invasion while a companion app tosses an element of randomisation into the mix – and lets one player pretend they’re hooked into the global defence network for real.” It is that hybridization that interests The Guardian: What’s common to nearly all reviews, though, are the claims that XCOM: The Board Game offers a unique take on XCOM, cooperative board gaming, and the hybridization of board and digital gaming. However, many reviewers have also remarked upon the game’s novel and compelling interpretation of the XCOM experience. In fact, the game’s app and its integration into gameplay have been the most commonly discussed topics. Coverage has run across sites dedicated to board games, as well as those that traditionally focus more on computer games, and even such traditional news media outlets as The Guardian have remarked upon the game’s use of a digital companion app. Moreover, the app manages all of these tasks and heighten’s the game’s tension as it forces you to respond in real-time.īased on the critically acclaimed and much-beloved XCOM computer game series, XCOM: The Board Game has exploded into the media since we first announced the game ahead of Gen Con Indy 2014. Each invasion plan represents a general outline that the alien commanders will use to coordinate the arrival of new UFOs, plan strikes against your base, and respond to your successes or failures as it seeks to conquer Earth.
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You must launch Interceptors to shoot down alien UFOs, assign soldiers to key missions, research alien technology, and use that technology to defend your base, all while you try to keep the world from collapsing just long enough that you can coordinate one final mission to repel the invaders for good.Īll the while, the game’s innovative and free digital companion app coordinates the alien invaders, randomly selecting from one of five different invasion plans. To do so, you must make strategic use of the resources available to you. Where the world’s militaries have failed to stand against the alien invaders, you must succeed. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the alien invasion. In XCOM: The Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. Reports of UFO sightings have now been confirmed. Calibrate your laboratory instruments, prep your Interceptors, and get your soldiers into battle armor.
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