XCOM®: Enemy Within Reviews

Will not allow me to manufacture anything!

Jeddar81

There is apparently a glitch that doesn’t allow me to manufacture anything I’ve researched!! Fix this and I’ll gladly upgrade my rating.

Waste of money.

Hughes8524

0 stars rating from me. Trash tbh. Crazy dumb bugs and crashes in single player and multiplayer. Don’t expect to get any kinda support on any of your issues either. HOW CAN I GET A REFUND FOR THIS TRASH

Crashes on title screen after 1st save

Baconisaveggie

Gameplay is truly fun. First dip into the xcom universe, and really enjoying it. Sure, it’s a nightmare trying to climb stairs in the game, and camera mechanics get a bit wonky sometimes. That said, on an iPhone 8 after the initial play through and a save, the game crashes out about .5 seconds into the title screen, after the opening bits play. Deleting and reinstalling the app returns stability, but only for one play, without the immediate ability to retrieve your cloud save. (And I’ve done this a few times because I’ve enjoyed the game then I can play it so much.) It’s a real shame.

Keeps crashing on iPhone 11 Pro Max

Ocehcap2005

As stated above, I can’t even play it on my iPhone. Very disappointed as the game itself is awesome.

Too buggy

disappointed_____

It’s just not playable. I’m halfway through the third mission and the game keeps crashing. Save your money.

Great on PC, middling on iPad

WafflesMan

The iPad port of XCOM has the unfortunate tendency to aggravate all of the minor problems from PC. Aiming explosives is a nightmare and can ruin your whole game with one misclick. I wish I could disable the double click which has caused many movement errors as well. And the cut scenes are a time consuming annoyance on the iPad.

Completely unplayable

Ffgghhyyttrreewsa

Basic functionality issue. I bought this game 2 years ago and the elevate up/down commands stopped working. I redownloaded it yesterday to see if this issue had been fixed on iPad. It has not. Soldiers get stuck on top of buildings, rendering the game completely unplayable. Pretty pathetic.

Not a fair fight

Matteo Liam

I absolutely loved this game for the PS3 back in the day. While it is still the essence of that great game, the difficulty of this version is completely unfair and out of whack. I was accustomed to playing this game on normal difficulty and up for PS3 so I was clearly familiar with strategies and tactics for success. In this version the percentage plays are totally stacked against you. Thinking this might have just been a subjective bias, I proceeded to reload one specific engagement 25 times on the Easy difficulty setting. My soldier was 56% to hit the target, the final result was a 2/25 success rate. Obviously a limited sample size but it confirmed what I had been suspecting. Not to mention over watch is rarely successful and the enemy’s hit rate is through the roof. It’s such a shame because this is one of my favorite games and it runs very smoothly on an iPad, yet I constantly find myself frustrated at an enemy that is nearly unbeatable even on the easy difficulty setting.

Love XCOM EW but

MarkHooves1131

This game is amazing but I only wish that there was modeling that could be done with it for the single player campaign for fun.

Awesome game - but can’t complete

MTN8tv

5 star game, 4 star issue with iPad Pro. I have really enjoyed this game - it is a faithful port and has worked quite well on my IPad Pro.... until the final boss battle with the Uber Ethereal. The game will not display anything beyond the last door into the last chamber... as such, I can’t enter, engage in battle, and save (or fail to save) Earth. Bummer ... the other 40 hours of play have been amazing, however. Well worth the fun if you are playing on another device. Thanks, 2K, for creating and (re)releasing a phenomenal game.

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