XCOM 2: War of the Chosen Reviews

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is ranked in the 98th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
PC Gamer
Top Critic
80 / 100
Aug 29, 2017

The new classes and super villains are excellent, even if the expansion bloats the campaign a little.

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Recommended
Aug 24, 2017

War of the Chosen is a generous expansion that's bustling with brilliant new systems that's a must for anyone who's completed XCOM 2.

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Dan Stapleton
Top Critic
8.8 / 10.0
Aug 24, 2017

War of the Chosen is a wide and deep expansion for XCOM 2 that improves variety in mission objectives, tactical options, threats, and strategic map activities. The Chosen are worthy adversaries who advance along with you to put up great fights without feeling cheap, and the new elite soldier classes add opportunities for interesting gameplay earlier in the campaign. Some significant balance issues show up, but especially for the first two-thirds of a campaign War of the Chosen restores the fear of the unknown to a game I know well.

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Metro GameCentral
GameCentral
Top Critic
10 / 10
Sep 13, 2017

An exceptionally good expansion that adds in a mountain of new content that specifically addresses the few flaws there were with the original.

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9.3 / 10.0
Aug 24, 2017

Overpowered aliens and a run of bad luck can test your resolve, but there is almost always a way out of every jam thanks to XCOM's layered strategy

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9 / 10
Sep 2, 2017

Building upon the sturdy foundation laid out by XCOM 2, War of the Chosen sets a high mark for an already exceptional sci-fi strategy series.

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Polygon
Top Critic
9.5 / 10.0
Aug 24, 2017

In XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, fighting a losing battle might be just as much fun as fighting and winning.

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Unscored
Aug 29, 2017

I'm far more invested in War of the Chosen than I was XCOM 2, and I thought XCOM 2 was fantastic.

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Unscored
Sep 6, 2017

War of the Chosen is the definitive way to play XCOM 2. Even if you weren't impressed with the original package, this feels like a whole new game. Buy it.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2017

An old-school expansion pack, improving the game all-around in ways no simple DLC could have achieved. XCOM 2 was great to begin with, and the new content brings it straight to the Olympus of turn-based strategy games.

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Alex Donaldson
Top Critic
Unscored
Sep 1, 2017

XCOM, you got me yet again.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 24, 2017

War of the Chosen is a nice way to retourn to the Avenger and fight those aliens. The new content is good and the whole game feels like new.

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Aug 28, 2017

War of the Chosen is an incredibly compelling reason to return to XCOM 2.  Adding both depth in strategy and new content for the game.  Anyone who enjoyed XCOM 2 will most certainly enjoy this excellent expansion.

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Unscored
Aug 24, 2017

'DLC' desperately undersells War Of The Chosen, this fat and bursting sausage of turn-based splendour. I think I might have found 'XCOM 3' a mite more appropriate.

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Sep 6, 2017

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen introduces seemingly countless new gameplay additions and changes for the deep tactical strategy game - but do the pieces all fit together?

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9.2 / 10.0
Sep 7, 2017

Despite its being a little bit easier than the "regular" XCOM 2 and some AI issues, War of the Chosen is one of the best DLC out there: big, with a lot of stuffs and enjoyable from the beginning to the end. If you love the genre, you should not miss it for any reason.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 22, 2017

War of the Chosen overhauls the already fabulous XCOM 2 and turns it into absolutely essential fare. The introduction of the Chosen, the soldier bonding system, and the photobooth mode, are perfect additions in that they amplify the base game's best qualities. It's just a shame the shine is dulled ever so slightly by a bunch of needless technical issues.

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9.3 / 10.0
Sep 11, 2017

XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is the "definitive" experience of XCOM 2, which not only hypothetically closes the circle of the development of the strategic sci-fi, but again raises the bar of excellence in the genre. The care taken in technical optimizations and in inserting content that does not unbalance the delicate balance of the challenge, shows how the developer has been sensitive to the requests of the community and has kept an eye on the development of the modding scene, adopting in his own way the features present in some of the most popular mods.

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PCGamesN
Top Critic
8 / 10
Aug 9, 2017

In its new expansion, XCOM 2 makes people of its soldiers and turns its aliens into personalities. It cares about the individual. But that's only so you feel the loss of your bonds more keenly, and hate the enemy more personally. In War of the Chosen, Firaxis are being kind to be cruel.

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Sep 1, 2017

'XCOM 2: War of the Chosen' somehow makes one of our favorite games of 2016 even better.

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