{"id":2912,"date":"2013-03-17T13:15:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2013-03-17T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T17:15:15","slug":"xcom-turn-based-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/xcom-turn-based-strategy","title":{"rendered":"XCOM &#8211; turn-based strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d have to say that X-COM is my favourite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?s=x-com\"title=\"Frozen Synapse is another neat one.\" >turn-based strategy game<\/a>. Played the crap out of this game, even despite how difficult and time-consuming it was.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, when I realized that the remake was released&#8230; AND in the classic turn-based tactical style, instead of the silly FPS version that was planned. Picked it up almost instantly (after approval from my partner, of course).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll spare my long review of it, so just go play it.\u00a0 Go out and try XCOM: Enemy Unknown&#8230;\u00a0 right now.<\/p>\n<p>Browsing the web, I found a few links to some solid strategy tips for those that are attempting to play the game on &#8220;Classic&#8221; difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/forums.2kgames.com\/showthread.php?206361-Classic-vs-Impossible-a-partial-stratagy-guide-%28In-progress-%29<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/iam.yellingontheinternet.com\/2012\/11\/12\/miscellaneous-xcom-tips\/<\/p>\n<p>Besides the links, there&#8217;s also this PCGamer video that does a great job. Chis talks about playing the game in Ironman mode where the game controls your single saved game.\u00a0 No retries. Consequences are permanent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e5RHqASSvEU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d have to say that X-COM is my favourite turn-based strategy game. Played the crap out of this game, even despite how difficult and time-consuming it was. A few months ago, when I realized that the remake was released&#8230; AND in the classic turn-based tactical style, instead of the silly FPS version that was planned. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,145,627],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}