XCOM: Strategic Defense Force

XCOM: Strategic Defense Force is an American real time strategy video game, serving as an installment of the XCOM series. It is developed by FirAxis Games & published by 2K Games, being released for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, PlayStation Portable 2, Xbox Series X, Xbox Zeta, Nintendo Switch 8D and Gameloft Advance on April 14th, 2025.

Story
The game is set between 2025 to 2028, with several flashbacks to the 2000s in some parts of the game. It has been 10 years since XCOM was able to defeat the alien incursion. While on an memorial built near the United Nations HQ in New York City, Dr. Vahlen & Bradford lay flowers for the Argentinian soldier from the tutorial who was the volunteer. While on the XCOM base, the Spokesperson appears on Mission Control, revealing that the commander is needed once again as the Aliens have returned, this time using even more heavier tactics.

After the long intro, we are then introduced to the first mission in Odessa, Ukraine. The team is considerably small with only 4 troops & a mech walker codenamed "Frenzy".

Extraterrestrials

 * Acid Spitter
 * Berserker
 * Bull
 * Big Rig Decepticon
 * Chryssalid
 * Cyberdisc
 * Drone
 * Ethereal
 * Floater
 * Hound
 * Hatchback Decepticon
 * Jolt
 * Heavy Jolt
 * Infiltrator
 * Mechtoid
 * Mosquito
 * Muton
 * Outsider
 * Sectoid
 * Sectoid Commander
 * Sectopod
 * S.U.V Decepticon
 * Sport Car Decepticon
 * Sports Sedan Decepticon
 * Seeker
 * Thin Man
 * Tank
 * Whisperer
 * Zombie

EXALT

 * EXALT Elite Heavy
 * EXALT Heavy
 * EXALT Medic
 * EXALT Elite Medic
 * EXALT Operative
 * EXALT Elite Operative
 * EXALT Sniper
 * EXALT Elite Sniper

Operations

 * Operation Morning Strike
 * Operation Silver Star
 * Operation Rolling Sea
 * Operation Hedgehog

Trivia

 * This is the first game to make the jump from turn-based strategy to real-time strategy, in similar style to the Command & Conquer games. This caused mixed reaction on the XCOM fanbase.
 * Taiwan & Kosovo were added as council members, due to Kosovo's global recognition in February 21st, 2023 & Taiwan's independence in 2024.
 * It turned out it made the "Good" ending towards XCOM: Enemy Unknown canon, thus causing XCOM 2 to be non-canon, which resulted in the series being retconned.
 * XCOM: Strategic Defense Force helped rebuild the computer game industry after the Second Video Game Crash after the disappointing releases of Cyberpunk 2077, Battlefield 2042, Call of Duty Vanguard & WATCH_DOGS: TOKYO. It also was the first AAAA title to be received well, in light due to it's massive ability to customize every aspect of a vehicle, boat or aircraft, overly realistic graphics & making the jump from turn-based strategy to real-time strategy
 * EXALT makes an return