If anything, Firaxis has sweetened the deal by making the whole thing even less forgiving. XCOM 2 offers more of the same - and that's fabulous news, especially as it's available on consoles as well as PC. It was about fighting infinite aggression with finite resources, and about making do as best you could in a war in which every loss was both permanent and costly. XCOM Enemy Unknown seemed on the surface to be a game about leading a rag-tag band of hardnuts as they battled wave after wave of invading aliens, but it was really, underneath all that, a game about managing failure.
