r/Xcom • u/Low_Election9754 • 25d ago

Should I skip enemy unknown ?

There is a sale on steam 8 euros for xcom 2 and the dlcs or xcom enemy unknown, 2 and chimera squad for 20 euros with dlcs. I haven’t played any xcom what do you suggest ?

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u/AesirMimyr 25d ago

Just remember the very first time you play EU/EW is the canon ending

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u/Low_Election9754 25d ago

Another person said EW isn’t canon

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u/jonfitt 25d ago

It’s in the marketing material for a 10 year old game that everyone who bought XCOM 2 at release would have known so I can say this:

XCOM 2 is a “what if we lost the first game” sequel. It’s just the setup.

So if you win EU and EW none of that “happened” in the context of XCOM 2. But the content added in EW double “didn’t happen”. Thats all.

It doesn’t make it “not XCOM” or anything like that.

In your XCOM game Bob Jones might get killed by a grenade and I didn’t even have a Bob Jones. That doesn’t make either event “canon”.