Seeing as XCOM 2 takes place in 2035, it looks like Firaxis is poised to continue their tradition of taking the general XCOM timeline and modifying bits and pieces of it. Their awakening forced XCOM to adopt new strategies in order to defend humanity once again, developing new weapons and armors capable of taking the fight to the aliens in an underwater battleground.Īstute gamers will have realized that Terror From The Deep was set in 2040 in the original canon. This signal awakened a dormant force of aliens who had been in stasis under the sea for countless years. Terror From The Deep was a sequel to the original X-COM. At this stage in that game's plot, the alien forces had been defeated, but sent out a signal before their ultimate destruction. Veterans of the XCOM series will have immediately recognized the obvious nod to Terror From The Deep, but as that game is now twenty years old, we'll provide a brief synopsis for players who may not have played the original titles. Once the end-game final assault is completed and players witness both the resistance finally gaining the upper hand on their ADVENT oppressors and the Avatars being eliminated, the game closes with an ominous camera pan down to the bottom of the ocean, where a purple glow is emitted from between two tectonic plates. This liquid, combined with an artificial host body, would grant the ethereals a permanent physical host and ensure their survival, effectively wiping out humans in the process. Once they came to Earth, these aliens found what they were looking for in human DNA.īy the end of XCOM 2, they were within reach of finishing a project that would have led to the mass genocide of humans all over the planet, who would be melted down and turned into a liquid used in the creation of the Avatar project. While playing XCOM 2 players discover that the alienswere dying, and a desperate search for a cure led them to roam from planet to planet looking for a suitable species to adapt into new host bodies. The most notable reference to the original series came at the very end of the game, and we'd like to take a moment to speculate on what this means for the future of the XCOM franchise.įirst-off: for those who may still be confused as to why the aliens had been attacking the planet in the first place, it turns out that the top species of the alien food chain had a problem.
While the game introduces plenty of brand new gameplay elements into the fold, veteran players will find many nods to the original series hidden within XCOM 2. Firaxis has continued their exemplary work on the XCOM franchise with the release of XCOM 2 last week, and many hardcore fans have already beaten the unforgiving title.
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