Is XCOM2 a storyline sequel to XCOM Enemy Unknown / Enemy Within?
XCOM2 just came out. This time aparantly the game is set 20 years in the future, and rather than playing an organization defending Earth, we'll play as an organization trying to reconquer Earth.
XCOM EU/EW Spoilers ahead:
In the end of the previous XCOM, the organization has to chose a psionic character and have him in the party that beats the final assault of the mothership. The thing is, it was all a ruse, merely for Ethereals to test humans to assess 'our' strenght. In the end, the mothership flies up, commanded by the psionic soldier and the end of the game comes with a cliffhanger where the ship explodes and several pieces of the aircraft fall on Earth.
Without spoiling the story of this new game, is XCOM2 a sequel to XCOM EU/EW? If not, is it a sequel to any other XCOM game?
Best Answer
My impression is that it is indeed a direct sequel to XCOM EU/EW only that the canon ending (from an XCOM 2 perspective) in XCOM EU/EW is you NOT winning the game!
Rather, the canon ending is you losing to the aliens, something which most players experienced at one point or another.
As quoted in PC Gamer, what creative director Jake Solomon said on the matter is this:
We realised that most players lost their initial playthrough of Enemy Unknown, and we realised there was an interesting and unique opportunity to have XCOM 2 begin with XCOM losing the invasion.
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Is XCOM: Enemy Within a sequel?
XCOM: Enemy Within is an expansion pack for the turn-based tactical video game XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The expansion pack primarily adds new gameplay elements to the base game, as well as introducing new themes of transhumanism via aggressive gene therapy.Are XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM: Enemy Within the same game?
Enemy Within is, at its core, the same game as Enemy Unknown. You still build an alien containment facility, capture and interrogate an invader, assault the alien base, etc.Should you play XCOM: Enemy Unknown before Enemy Within?
You should play Enemy Within. The expansion simply adds new upgrades, options, mission types, etc. to the base game; the basic story progression does not change. Thus, there's no compelling reason to play Enemy Unknown if you own Enemy Within, unless you really don't like something it adds to the game.Are XCOM 1 and 2 connected?
The story of XCOM2 is a divergent future from the start of XCOM: Enemy Unknown -- that is to say, the events of players beating the first game are not canon. In the XCOM 2 Universe, the Earth's governments had abandoned XCOM and surrendered to the aliens by July, just 5 months into the invasion.XCOM Lost – What Happened?
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Answer 2
There is a prequel novel to XCOM 2 called XCOM 2: Resurrection which "bridges the gap between XCOM:EU and XCOM 2".
It's the official prequel novel, so it's canon. Unfortunately I haven't found anyone who's actually read it, so I can't tell you what happens :)
Answer 3
The novel basically follows a group of resistance soldiers who run into the remnants of XCOM. XCOM is running their HQ out of an old submarine at sea (a pretty cool idea - similar to the Avenger, but human tech). They actually get the Avenger up and running by the end of the novel and XCOM 2 along with it. A few characters from both games pop up (Dr. Shen, etc...). It's not bad if you're a fan of the game's storyline.
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