XCOM Guía y cronología

XCOM makes long-term preparation personal by sending trained soldiers into fights they may not survive. Starting a particular game's war gives you the rules and pressures it expects, without requiring a successful campaign in every older version of Earth's defence.

The classic line, Firaxis reboot and The Bureau's earlier setting are different routes through the premise. XCOM 2 begins from an occupied Earth, which should not be mistaken for a guarantee that every player's preceding victory or loss is a canon imported into it. Chimera Squad then looks at another stage of that reboot world.

Select Reboot Continuity for Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2 and Chimera Squad. Choose an expanded XCOM 2 presentation if that is the campaign you want to learn, recognizing its additions instead of treating it as a second mandatory pass. Use Classic for the earlier design history and The Bureau for its standalone interpretation.

The groups separate major interpretations. The classic collection also varies in genre; a space-combat or action spin-off is not the same kind of campaign as the tactical squad games.

• Classic Continuity (5 entries)

  The classic X-COM family, including tactical, space-combat and action designs whose shared era does not make their campaigns identical in form.

• Reboot Continuity (5 entries)

  Firaxis's Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2 and Chimera Squad route, with expanded campaign versions understood in their base game's context.

• The Bureau (1 entry)

  The Bureau's standalone 1960s interpretation, not a universal opening chapter for all classic and reboot wars.

Begin with Enemy Unknown for Firaxis's introduction, then approach the occupied world of XCOM 2 and Chimera Squad's later situation.

1. 1
   1994UFO: Enemy UnknownGame · 1994
2. 2
   1995X-COM: Terror from the DeepGame · 1995
3. 3
   1997X-COM: ApocalypseGame · 1997
4. 4
   1998X-COM: InterceptorGame · 1998
5. 5
   2001X-COM: EnforcerGame · 2001
6. 6
   2012XCOM: Enemy UnknownGame · 2012
7. 7
   XCOM: Enemy WithinGame · 2013
8. 8
   2013The Bureau: XCOM DeclassifiedGame · 2013
9. 9
   2016XCOM 2Game · 2016
10. 10
    XCOM 2: War of the ChosenGame · 2017
11. 11
    2020XCOM: Chimera SquadGame · 2020

Publication compares the classic and reboot approaches and their side games. It is a design-history route, not one uninterrupted campaign outcome across every title.

1. 1
   UFO: Enemy UnknownGame · 1994
2. 2
   X-COM: Terror from the DeepGame · 1995
3. 3
   X-COM: ApocalypseGame · 1997
4. 4
   X-COM: InterceptorGame · 1998
5. 5
   X-COM: EnforcerGame · 2001
6. 6
   XCOM: Enemy UnknownGame · 2012
7. 7
   The Bureau: XCOM DeclassifiedGame · 2013
8. 8
   XCOM: Enemy WithinGame · 2013
9. 9
   XCOM 2Game · 2016
10. 10
    XCOM 2: War of the ChosenGame · 2017
11. 11
    XCOM: Chimera SquadGame · 2020