{"id":20968,"date":"2012-05-23T22:03:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T12:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=20968"},"modified":"2012-05-23T22:03:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T12:03:28","slug":"xcom-enemy-unknown-invades-stores-on-october-12-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=20968","title":{"rendered":"XCOM\u00ae: Enemy Unknown Invades Stores on October 12, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Launch bonus and special edition of highly anticipated title announced<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/news\/xboxnew01.jpg\" width=500><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sydney, Australia \u2013 May 23, 2012<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 2K Games announced today that <strong><em>XCOM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>: Enemy Unknown<\/em><\/strong>, the highly anticipated action-strategy game from Firaxis Games, will be available for purchase in Australia &amp; New Zealand on October 12, 2012 for the Xbox 360<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation\u00ae3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC. Additionally, pre-ordering <strong><em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/em><\/strong> from participating retailers guarantees receiving the Elite Soldier Pack, a launch bonus offering top-of-the-line soldier customization features that will only be available for a limited time. There will also be a special edition of <strong><em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/em><\/strong> available exclusively for PC that contains a variety of unique <em>XCOM <\/em>items.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/news\/xboxnew02.jpg\" width=500><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we reimagine <em>XCOM<\/em>, one of our goals is to evolve the experience while recognizing what made <em>X-COM<\/em> one of the greatest PC games to date,\u201d said Sarah Anderson, senior vice president of marketing for 2K. \u201cIt\u2019s important to create an experience that is appealing to both existing fans and newcomers to the world of <em>XCOM<\/em>, which is what we\u2019re doing with <strong><em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Released in 1993, the original <em>X-COM<\/em> is regarded as one of the best games ever made and has been reimagined as <strong><em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/em><\/strong> by the strategy experts at Firaxis Games. <strong><em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/em><\/strong> will expand on the <em>X-COM<\/em> legacy with an entirely new story, enemies and technologies to fight hostile aliens and defend Earth. In <strong><em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/em><\/strong>, players will oversee combat strategies and individual unit tactics as well as base management and resource allocation as commander of a secret global military organization, XCOM. With equal emphasis on deep strategy and intense tactical combat<em>, <strong>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/strong><\/em> will allow gamers to control the fate of the human race by defending against a terrifying global alien invasion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown <\/em><\/strong>is not yet rated by the OFLC. For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcom.com\">www.xcom.com<\/a>. For the latest news and information on <strong><em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/em><\/strong>, become a fan on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/XCOM\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/XCOM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch bonus and special edition of highly anticipated title announced\u00a0 Sydney, Australia \u2013 May 23, 2012 \u2013 2K Games announced today that XCOM\u00ae: Enemy Unknown, the highly anticipated action-strategy game from Firaxis Games, will be available for purchase in Australia &amp; New Zealand on October 12, 2012 for the Xbox 360\u00ae video game and entertainment<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=20968\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20985,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20968\/revisions\/20985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}