XCOM: Enemy Unknown Review
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Woohoo, can't wait. I'm glad to see Sid Meier back doing something else than Civ games. I've been a huge fan of his since his days at Microprose (about 60% of my game box collection still bears their logo, I'm a hipster, I know). I loved XCOM back in my 486 days and I'll have a ton of fun playing this one. Thanks Sid!
There are ways for rest of the world to unlock the game on steam as same day as the US players gets their game... just browse around on reddit.com/r/xcom and you might find some solutions to this 'problem' 
Solid review, and it's just like I thought I need to buy two games now, X-Com and Dishonored. My wallet doesn't seem happy.
I´m looking forward to playing this game. My only gripe is the visual design and music, i think the marines and alien designs are awfully boring and uninspired, and the music seems to be your standard booming orchestral score. The problem is that these two things were on the reasons that the first Xcom game stayed with me for so long. I love the design, art style and soundtrack, it saddens me that they had to make everything so bland this time around. But stille seems like it will be a lot of fun, i like the gameplay decisions, seems to be an improvement over the original in a lot of ways.
Sometimes the reverse occurs, and America gets it last or much later (*glares at several Nintendo properties*)Bernzz said:
Local laws, trade laws and regulations differ according to region, though these normally don't inhibit a multi-region release much.
Though sometimes the publisher staggers their releases in regions so that if something breaks (DRM, gamebreaking glitch, a hurricane annihilates their servers, etc), they can aren't immediately overwhelmed by everyone else calling in.
Still, it kind of sucks when you're last in line. :\
Though you do get the marginal benefit of some immediate word of mouth (assuming you can speak the language of whoever got the game first).
1. Yes, there is a "Grey Market" that will buy alien artifacts, technology and corpses. You will also occasionally get requests from nations for specific manufactured items or alien stuff, at a nice bonus value if you can spare them. However, you can't sell everything at any time though. Most of your researched items, like say laser weapons, can't just be sold to the Grey Market.blackrave said:
2. See above, but no.
