• Mon. Oct 6th, 2025

XCOM 2 was originally going to give you giant mechs

XCOM 2 was originally going to give you giant mechs

XCOM 2 War of the Chosen is an essential upgrade to one of the best strategy games on PC, but it was originally going to be quite different. The game’s director, Jake Solomon, who parted ways with developer Firaxis in February 2023, reveals that the original vision was completely different from what we got, with giant mechs more akin to those of Titanfall 2, Battletech, and Into the Breach, but it simply didn’t work in practice.

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