The game runs well, the graphics are scaled down I'd even say the switch version looks better, still fun. I'm running a One plus Nord N10 and I've already encountered a bug. On the second mission, the map went black. It was easily remidied by loading up the previous round but a little concerning since I'd only played for about an hour. Still, I am happy with my purchase and recommend this to any one who enjoys trpgs but expect a few bugs. Especially if ur phone isn't supported.
Reviews for XCOM 2 Collection
← Back to XCOM 2 CollectionIncredible for what it is. XCOM 2 is the single best strategy game of the modern era and it's one that a lot of much more powerful hardware still really struggles with. This port is far from perfect but it's a BIG step up from the port of Enemy Within. The UI is better designed for touch controls and even though it runs pretty choppy, interacting with it is a lot less clunky than Enemy Within. I'm playing on a 4 year old phone and I'm frankly blown away this game can work as well as it does
Overall, it's a great mobile port of the XCOM 2 game. It even improves upon the original game in a few slight aspects. However, the frequent crashes are a problem, especially when you're blocked from progressing through the game, reaching a point where you're going to get the same crash at the same time, with the same mission. Reloading did nothing and trying to change the path of choices did nothing...great game, but game breaking faults.
Xcom 2 in itself seems to be a fantastic experience. Ported to mobile and compared to Xcom Enemy Within's port. This game looks, sounds, and sometimes plays better. The controls are intuitive and make sense, and the game can take a while to start, but you just have to be patient. The game drains the battery relatively quickly, so be aware and may crash rarely in my experience, but overall, it's a fantastic port after 2 playthroughs and 75 hours of play time. Don't expect amazing graphics tho.
Amazing port of the PC version on mobile. As of this writing, the game is less than a month old. There are a few glitches and the graphics are not as crisp as the first mobile xcom game, but as updates come out some of this can be remedied. The price is steep for an android game but it is more than worth it. You will get hours of quality gaming on par with the PC, no in app purchases, and no advertisements. I hope more developers put out quality products line this one.
The entire game is here and it feels amazing with touch controls. No crashes after 10+ hours of play. A few niggles. I wish there were achievements, the gamma needs to be turned up due to very dark maps, and the sound quality of the music is very compressed. I totally understand the need to compress for such a large game, just wish there was an option to download high quality music/sfx. Also when at full zoom the touch is too sensitive. Overall 9/10 would definitely buy again!
It's XCOM 2 on my phone. What's not to love? I mean aside from numerous graphical glitches, strange issues with timing, and the fact that ironman is unplayable because the autosave system sometimes just doesn't work at all. It's also the biggest battery hog I've ever seen. It can drain my phone to 0 in just a few hours, and that's on "battery saver" graphics. I still like it though.
Lemme begin with this. I have this on PC and love it. My PC at the time of the game's release could barely run it. Barely. Getting this working on my phone is a miracle. Massive appluad for that alone. But it doesn't stop there. The way the controls have been designed, placed, and the response from the developers in reviews are all top notch. It even feels like they've patched the game to fix them as the problems I've read about aren't the case for me. Load times are short. Gameplay is smooth.
Game is good. Has issues. I set to 2 press moves, and often, it moves with 1 press. I feel some spacial awareness problem. Don't feel this on console. Maybe it's just me, but i can't tell where i am all the time. Main issue is the 2 press to move not always working. Very often i tap to check cover, and the guy moves. Overall, good port. Needs work.
Pros: It's XCOM! A great game that's fun and interesting. Cons: Only works on some phones. If you're using an unsupported phone like me, the graphics can get really grainy, and the combat cutscenes can get laggy. Cutscenes can also lag, and may make you have to restart the game multiple times. When you're fighting the lost, the audio can get loud and choppy, as well as when you are commanding units when command is talking. Even so, the content of the game isn't blocked if you're unsupported.
The game itself is good, and I can see myself playing this for a while. I wish the graphics were a little better. You have to zoom in to see inside buildings, and it gets hard to tell what's what in there. Everything starts to blur together a little and if you slip up your camera it gets difficult. Big screen here btw. Fold z 5 unfolded.
GREAT mobile port of XCOM 2, unfortunately they haven't made a patch that makes the game playable on the S24 as of yet so I'm unable to do another playthrough, but I thoroughly enjoyed my time with this game on my other phone while I had it! There were a couple of times in which I'd crashed during my previous playthroughs, but I was still able to play to completion. I sincerely hope the devs keep working on compatibility features in the near future, because this is a damn fine port!
Would be a 5 star if it didn't have always-online functionality. I'm giving it two Stars because it's easy to live with, but in cases like right now, being connected to the Internet isn't enough & there's no good reason why it would have it in the first place. Also, it doesn't appear to be any mods such as "stop wasting my time," which would be perfect for mobile, but even the one built into the PC version isn't here. I'm pretty sure the steam deck could run it with no problem or a laptop.
Really great port in general. The touch controls are very intuitive and well thought out. After a few hundred hours on desktop, I felt right at home with the mobile version. I've had a couple of crashes, but honestly they are no more frequent than other CPU/GPU/RAM intensive games on Android, so I won't even take a star off for it. Not much more to say than I recommend it to any fan of XCOM.
I've recently been encountering an issue where I can not progress past the first month from the geoscape. The game freezes right after the dark events screen and reloading old saves, restarting the game, and re installing are not fixing it. I love xcom 2 on my PC and was really excited to play it on the go, but I can't do much at this point.
This game is great and runs perfectly, but I would really like if the pause button would remain active during enemy turns-- If you aren't in ironman mode it would be great to be able to load when it's looking dire. I had a situation where I lost control of my remaining soldiers, had to watch 2-3 turns of getting myself killed with no chance to recover, then had to wait for all the cutscenes and continue through the mission failed screen before going back to my previous save. Please change this!
Overall an impressively complete port of a great AAA game. Although not a deal breaker, there's a few technical issues with the game. I run into a crash every 2-3 hours of gameplay (Samsung S22) which can be annoying. The game also predictably eats up a lot of CPU. Performance takes a huge hit if you have apps running in the background. Other than that it's a great port with no microtransactions, and I hope it sets a precedent for similar ports by other publishers in the future.
I have the TCL Stylus 5G and the device isn't supported. I was happy to play it with the problems... Unfortunately, I played my first campaign and didn't set up the settings the right way so I started another campaign.. That's when the game decided to lag like crazy, crash, and make it annoying to play. I deleted the 1st campaign thinking it would help.. Only got worse. Then, I deleted and reinstalled the game. Couldn't figure out why my game played ok first time now it's perpetual to crash.
Good game but it has an irredeemable flaw. I paid $15 so they really shouldn't be something I have to deal with. There's no option for action confirmation. It has a feature you can't turn off where you can double tap to do stuff instead of selecting where you want and then pressing a "go" button. The feature is also extraordinarily buggy and unpredictable. I've had to reload countless times because someone moved way off where I didn't want them to or a grenade is tossed into the abyss.
Buggy...but...it's XCOM2, which i have 1000+ hrs on PC...so I love the game. I'm playing on an S24+, so plenty of power, but every turn now in battle the gamma goes full blast, and the screen turns white. It's basically unplayable unless I save and reload every turn, sometimes multiple times a round. For some reason, it seems to activate the gamma bug every time a shot misses.