When the Chosen take your soldiers down in battle they don’t always kill them. Their legacy lives on in the sequel, and you should at least get to know them a little before you get started. Watch it all to learn about Central as well as Dr. In fact, here’s a link to all of that first game’s cutscenes, including the Enemy Within DLC. Unless you’re really excited about the backstory in Enemy Unknown you don’t need to have played it to understand what’s going on. XCOM 2 fundamentally builds on the systems present in Enemy Unknown, and War of the Chosen bolts onto that framework and expands it. I’m here to tell you that you should skip both of these earlier games and go straight to this new DLC. My Twitter feed has been clogged with people asking me if they need to have played the original XCOM: Enemy Unknown or XCOM 2 to understand or even be good at War of the Chosen. Skip the original and start with this DLC
Here’s what I wish I’d known going in, and a few tips for stepping off on the right foot. There are new features like Ability Points, new enemies like the Spectre and the Purifier and a couple of entirely new systems that aren’t terribly well explained. But it also throws a few wrinkles into the classic formula.
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is here, and by all accounts it’s the best version of XCOM ever made.
