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Riftaxe

(2,693 posts)
Thu Nov 28, 2013, 04:07 AM Nov 2013

X-COM enemy within

for those of us who have been with the X-COM franchise since it was first released

I managed to finagle through a sale, an additional discount and a coupon the price down to something actually reasonable for DLC, and have played through the DLC part twice now.

PROS:
Cybernetics for soldiers
Genetic alteration for soldiers
New Council Missions
New Weapons*
2 new mobs

CONS:
Cybernetics and Genetic labs show up too late in the game to be really worthwhile, no matter how hard you push them.
*New weapons are almost to the one, only re-skins of tier 0 and 1 (guns and lasers)

It definitely adds something to the game, however it is hardly worth even the sale asking price at $22. I would suggest waiting until the price falls under $10 to see any value in it, no matter how much you wish to cut the arms and legs off a soldier, slap them in a mech and watch them kick Exalt and alien tushies.

Also the final mission for Exalt (introduced in this DLC) is a joke....takes about 4 minutes, and rewards nothing in tech or cash, just the usual mass aoe of a few gene soldiers <you will be used to it by then>.







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