While most franchises simply aim to not disappoint, XCOM delights gamers with increasingly superior turn-based strategy games.

Enter XCOM 2 Collection.

XCOM 2 for Mac was already a great game. A worthy successor of the superb XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Then Firaxis did the impossible and released War of the Chosen, an Expansion so big, it changed XCOM 2 forever.

The XCOM 2 Collection is now available on Mac and includes XCOM 2, four DLC packs, and the War of the Chosen expansion:

The XCOM 2 Collection is now available for PC, Mac, and Linux. Coming soon to #PS4 and #XboxOne. Good luck, Commander. ➜ https://t.co/l6pDWOxmeY pic.twitter.com/Y4ffpmZ6k2 — Firaxis Games (@FiraxisGames) February 1, 2018

Firaxis delivered the news but it is Feral Interactive you should be thanking.

They are the team behind both MacOS and Linux versions and so far have managed to secure same day releases and cross-platform multiplayer. Two impressive feats when it comes to multiplatform development.

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Improving upon one of the best strategy games out there

XCOM 2 takes place 20 years into the future. Humanity lost the war against the alien forces and the XCOM organization is largely forgotten. The aliens promise a brilliant future for humanity, but their real agenda is dark and sinister. In XCOM 2, you lead what’s left of the XCOM forces to stop the alien threat once and for all.

Then you have the War of the Chosen DLC, an expansion so big that Firaxis though it would become XCOM 3. This DLC is packed full of new enemies, missions, and more.

But more importantly, it introduces The Chosen, the most dangerous enemies XCOM has ever seen. They will kidnap, interrogate, and kill XCOM’s soldiers to complete their objective, but you’ll have access to new Hero classes to fight them off. Needless to say, XCOM 2 is a much better game and one of the finest strategy games for Mac.

Be careful with those Mac system requirements

For a turn-based strategy game, XCOM 2 is one demanding game. If you want to be safe, you better meet (or preferably exceed) the game’s minimum system requirements:

OS: 10.12.5

Processor: Intel Core i3

RAM: 8GB

Hard Disk: 78GB

Graphics: 1GB Nvidia 650M or better, 1GB AMD Radeon 5750 or better, 1GB Intel Iris Pro 5200 or better

And for an optimal experience, these are the recommended system requirements:

OS: 10.12.6 or higher

Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel 2.7 GHz

RAM: 8GB

Hard Disk: 78GB

Graphics card: 2GB NVIDIA 700 series or AMD R9 series

The following graphics cards are not supported: AMD Radeon HD 4xxx Series, ATI Radeon HD2xxx Series, ATI X1xxx Series, Intel GMA Series, Intel HD 515, Intel HD3000, Intel HD4000, Intel HD5000, Intel HD5300, Intel HD6000, Intel Iris 5100, Intel Iris 6100, Nvidia 1xx Series, Nvidia 3xx Series, Nvidia 7xxx Series, Nvidia 8xxx Series and Nvidia 9xxx Series.

XCOM 2 was originally released on February 5, 2016, and can be downloaded from Humble Bundle:

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