XCOM: Enemy Within Previews

We have rounded up a couple of additional XCOM: Enemy Within previews, starting from this interesting sort-of-let’s-play from PC Gamer’s Tom Senior. If nothing else, I’m sure he’s enjoyed the time he spent writing it:

PALMER: Responding to reports of alien abductions on Australian soil, we tracked down alien signatures to a small garage. We deployed from the Skyranger in a fan formation and commenced a sweep of the area.

OFFICER: And that’s when you saw them, Lieutenant?

PALMER: Yes, sir. They were scouting the parking lot and cloaked when they detected us. A pair of giant flying metal goddamn octopuses, sir.

OFFICER: My god. How did you proceed?

PALMER: We deployed Lt. Ben Hudson and consolidated inside his protective distortion field.

OFFICER: How is Hudson coping with having no arms or legs?

PALMER: He screams whenever he sees his reflection, sir, but he says that putting on a giant mech suit with an on-board flamethrower is excellent therapy.

OFFICER: And then what happened, Lieutenant?

PALMER: Three Mutons burst through a door and a pair of Floaters attacked from the rooftop. Our sniper on overwatch nailed one of the flyers and Hudson used his flamethrower to waste an area, pushing the Mutons back behind some nearby vehicles. He then used his ‘collateral damage’ attack to destroy their cover. The cover was explosive cars, which exploded. The Mutons did not survive.

OFFICER: And on a scale of one to badass, how badass was this?

PALMER: This was actually extremely badass, sir.

There’s also a video preview on IGN, with a fair amount of footage commented by Dan Stapleton and Vince Ingegnito.