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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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A third-person, squad-based, tactical game that recounts humanity's first contact with aliens during the Cold War in the 1960s, and the subsequent founding of the XCOM organization.
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"An entertaining combat system props up this otherwise clunky, harebrained sci-fi action game."
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20% okay 80% miserable

When The Bureau was first announced as 'XCOM' it met with an understandable backlash. People assumed the publisher was trying to replace their favorite turn-based strategy game with an action shooter… Read more

A Fun Tactical Shooter Lost In the Shadow of it's Better Big Brother.

In many ways, I still want the XCOM FPS that was annoucned way back in 2010. I thought the 1950s setting combined with the horrific alien blobs that apparently killed people by forcing themselves down… Read more

That The Bureau is as enjoyable as it is despite its troubled development is a triumph, but muddled ideas clog it up

The feeling is that The Bureau: XCOM Declassified doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. It began development as a first person shooter, 2K seemingly choosing the most popular genre of the time to tr… Read more

A huge disappointment for fans of both the XCOM series weakly held up by some sub-par combat

Whenever a game’s development cycle is so lengthy that the original game gets completely scrapped, it’s safe to assume that the game won’t bust any sales charts. Unfortunately, the Bureau: XCOM Declas… Read more

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