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This Is What The First Playable Version Of XCOM: Enemy Unknown Looked Like

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Tina Amini
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xcom prototype

Today at Firaxis' panel at PAX East, the developers showed off the first version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown before it was scrapped for what you played last year.

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They worked on what you see above for about a year before ditching it.

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