Well, that is gone now as the Enemy Within adds over 40 new maps, giving you a constantly fresh setting throughout the campaign. After a while you had a inchworm strategy, allowing you to set up sight lines for snipers to rip down enemy interlopers with ease. One of the issues we had with the previous product was the short list of maps. In fact, when playing it on the PC you’ll select a separate executable to run the game with the enhancements baked in. Rather than tacking onto the end of Enemy Unknown, Enemy Within folds directly into the original product. You’ll always have soldiers who aren’t up to scratch, and you will find yourself face to face with the enemy mothership before long, ending the game.

There might be enough time to research every piece of technology, but there just isn’t enough money or time to save everyone. I’m a completionist, and it wasn’t the type of game where you could do everything. Could there be enough to warrant another trip through the war-torn turn-based tactical world? Let’s find out, Commander. It tears open the original, fixes minor issues, adds a wealth of new features, and sews it back up to face an all new threat for the XCOM team. XCOM: Enemy Within is more like a Game of the Year edition. Enemy Within, the expansion to last year’s surprise hit, concerned me – it seemed I’d have to race through the full game to kick off the new expansion, but I was wrong. Unfortunately, as is often the case, I never got around to beating it on the PC. I loved it so much that I picked it up on the PC as well, happy to double dip on such a solid product. David Roberts did our original review of XCOM: Enemy Unknown on the PC, and I played it on the Xbox 360.

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