XCOM, in case you're hearing about it for the first time, is the latest entry in a series of point and click, turn-based strategy games, the first of which was 1994's UFO: Enemy Unknown. The first is Arkane's Steampunk yarn, Dishonored – already reviewed here by Simon Parkin. Games with guns hardly give you a chance to pause for a breath these days, so it's been refreshing this week to see two genuinely entertaining titles that prize a little cognitive thought on my part before I pull the trigger. Every second triple-A title contains enough high-octane shenanigans to shatter the thin film of glass on my TV set, prompting me to duck lest a kitchen sink hit me in the face. T his week videogames reminded me of the virtue of patience.
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