The new armour and clothing also reinforces the “anarchy” theme, with spiked pauldrons, leather straps, knuckle dusters, hockey masks and muzzlers all contributing to a much more intimidating appearance for your on-field soldiers. Many of the new face paints are also outright frightening, with the standout options including “Killer Clown”, “Blood Spatter” and “Celtic Warrior”, which all look exactly as nightmarish as they sound. It screams crazy, outlandish and punk-rock – which is in stark contrast to the traditional militaristic options of the base game.įor instance, all of the new hair-styles are definitely not the types of cuts you would find on by-the-book soldiers – several variations of mohawks, spikes, pigtails and braids. The pack includes new armour and helmet designs, hairstyles, face paints, masks, and decals with a distinctive post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-esque theme. The cosmetic-focused content package introduces over 100 new options for your soldiers, with several new items which will require some heavy suspension of disbelief when applying them to your soldiers while witnessing the rather serious story unfold. So with them came many new biographies, personalities and appearance choices – but it still wasn’t enough for everyone.Įnter Anarchy’s Children, the newest official DLC add-on from Firaxis priced at $5USD (around $6.50 AUD). These aren’t by-the-book soldiers anymore, but desperate guerilla fighters, ex-convicts, exiles and people of questionable sanity. With Earth thoroughly under control by the aliens and only the bottom of the barrel left to form the resistance, it gave developer Firaxis a logical narrative reason to improve upon the options given in XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The best part about 2016’s XCOM 2 is its extensive squad customisation.

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