Scroll down to learn what names are in, and why they’re so important. Replacing soldier names unlocks unique, and powerful, new characters that completely overwrite their predecessors. And it was better for that.Secret Heroes return in XCOM 2. My experience was anchored to the game itself, the time I spent creating my characters, and my perception of the X-Men, all at once. But because it was those particular two - some of the most famous X-Men of all time, lost due to my lack of aggressiveness and tactical competence - I had to decide what I was going to do: reload? Play better in the future? Start a new game?
Had it been two random, mid-level soldiers, I might have been mildly annoyed and moved right on. When it did, I lost two: Storm and Rogue got captured by the aliens. On one mission, I had to take my squaddies to the other side of the map before time ran out. (And this is without the “Anarchy’s Children” DLC that’s supposed to add even more customization.)īut did it work? Did taking however long I took in order to customize all these characters actually enhance my experience? The answer here is unreservedly yes. In other words, it may be difficult to adapt a strategy game about humans fighting aliens to mutant superheroes fighting each other and villains, but there are just enough tools in XCOM’s customization, and more than enough variety in the X-Men’s history, to make most characters work. The hexes are smaller, and the black doesn't dominate, but the concept works really well. XCOM 2 does the same, bringing to mind Childhood’s End, in addition to superhero stories. Sure, mutants are especially oppressed - but that oppression also shut down effective, creative human society, as well. One of the most famous X-Men stories, Days of Future Past, presents almost exactly this scenario. XCOM 2 takes place in a near-future dystopia, where oppressors have won, and only the last remnants of decades-old resistance are able to fight against that. There are lots of parallels between the X-Men and XCOM 2. Rachel Summers, Jubilee, and Dazzler were both some of my most-used squaddies, and some of the best creations I could make. The gender equality of XCOM 2 matches very nicely with that of the X-Men. It’s still very heavily weighted toward whites and Americans, but at least it’s not 75 percent male like when I tried to make an Avengers squad. The X-Men, meanwhile, offer a huge number of characters, with significantly more gender and racial diversity than most massive pop culture franchises, thanks largely to the deliberate efforts of Chris Claremont and later X-Men creators to be diverse. The reason is pretty simple: I wanted reasons to use the diversity of character creation options that XCOM 2 offers, and I wanted to create something of an emotional connection with my dozens of squaddies. I may be most proud of my Jubilee of all my 'XCOM'-Men. So, naturally, I set out to create the X-Men in XCOM 2 (following my work on Game of Thrones characters and the Avengers.) Even better, there’s now a spot to import and export characters - so I can use the same ones from game to game, and let other people download them. It’s a fantastic improvement for those of us who enjoy in-depth themes for our squaddies. Tattoos! Bandanas! British accents! Hairstyles that aren’t short or ponytails, particularly ’fros and dreadlocks! Perhaps most importantly, XCOM 2 offers the ability to give your characters different personalities, so some can be “Happy-Go-Lucky” and others “Intense,” and that affects both how they carry themselves and what they say in combat. This isn’t the case with XCOM 2, which, happily, gives your squaddies all kinds of customization options. Even the mere option of character customization was an afterthought - literally, with important things like “different-colored armor” being a pre-order bonus. But cosmetic improvements can be crucial, especially given that the 2012’s XCOM’s greatest weakness was a general lack of personality. One of the biggest sets of improvements is primarily cosmetic - character customization. XCOM 2 is great, improving on the original XCOM in almost every conceivable way - something it needed to do, with a bunch of competition on its heels.
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