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XCOM: Enemy Within review: And you thought it couldn't get harder |
December 19, 2013
I am a master tactician. I've directed all my soldiers into the perfect positions.
Sergeant Toussaint L'Overture is huddled behind a beaten-up taxi. Corporal Betsy Ross is watching over him from the rooftops. Corporal Henry David Thoreau is safely holed up inside a nearby shop. The rookie, Susan B. Anthony, is watching the rear. It's perfect.
Ross is the first to go. She's spotted from an adjacent rooftop and catches a hot slug of plasma to the face. I grit my teeth.
Thoreau dies when the entire storefront explodes in a giant fireball. L'Overture was in overwatch, so when an alien sprints out from cover he gets to take a few shots. Misses them all. I massage my temples. The alien shoots L'Overture point blank, taking him out.
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