THE BUREAU XCOM DECLASSIFIED (Zero Punctuation) 

I find it funny that the best method to tell if Yahtzee really enjoyed a game is to see if he mentions it in a non derogatory fashion in another review.

About that bit from the Moon landing: Wikipedia: Portions of the Apollo 11 mission are dramatized in the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon episode entitled "Mare Tranquilitatis". In that episode, Michael Collins made the following suggestion as to what Armstrong should say upon stepping onto the lunar surface: "If you had any balls, you'd say 'Oh, my God, what is that thing?' then scream and cut your mic."

"a rampaging plot device" XD

I work at Domino's and yes we can do that.

Lol, "Hey dominos? can i get a sandwich but the bread is pizza?" "Uh-uhm, sure what do you want inside the sandwich?" "9 pizzas" "what?"

I wonder just how many random-ass .jpg files Yahtzee has stored on his computer. I mean, the man uses them all the time in his videos so there has to be thousands of them unless he bothered to delete them.

"Wiped out by a rampaging plot device" This will be my epitaph.

"Two pizzas instead of bread, and nine pizzas instead of filling" Excuse me gonna make a call real quick

Having rewatched this video years later, I realize it's the most positive Yahtzee has ever been towards Mass Effect.

"I would be playing the other Xcom while eating something mommy would disapprove of" Oh Yahtzee, you never fail to amaze me.

1:22 "This is exactly what we want!" Said everyone! xD

Well, did they make the sandwich?

This game could have actually been really good if the devs had any clue what they were trying to make.

I still liked the game for having the manliest voice in the world

One thing I noticed in this game is why is there no Chryssalids? For everyone else who have played XCOM, Chryssalids are are the main thing you associate with the entire franchise. This game just doesn't feel like the other XCOM games, one because the Ethereals are the good guys now for some reason, and that half the enemies, including Chryssalids, are gone and replaced with these new aliens called Zudjari. What the heck are those? It's not like we'll see them again or that they overwhelmingly effect the canon of XCOM, so why have them to begin with?

During the entire game, I get the feeling that they had an understanding of what they were doing, but had little idea of how to do it. As if they had the ideas down but weren't though though enough, probably because half the team were making the expansion for XCOM: EU at the same time. I feel like if they put more time into this it could have been profound but instead amounted to what felt like half of a good idea.

A pizza with pizza instead of bread? But then that means that the new bread pizza also requires pizza for bread, meaning that it goes on infinitely, and the nine pizzas for filling? Dear god my brain melted and oozed out my ear into a little puddle when I tried to comprehend the amount of pizzas needed for that! Answer to it all? INFINITE PIZZA!

I feel like Yahtzee needs more of talking to himself in videos. I enjoy it thoroughly .

Were those scorpions at the beginning meant to be a winking reference to the chryssalids from Enemy Unknown?

dose the the little adventurer guy have a goatee or is he just really happy

"wiped out by a rampaging plot device". Gets me every time xD

its me job

This is so Friggin' hilarious.

I will sit on this grenade egg, and it will hatch into a baby grenade, which will grow up into a big, beutiful adult gre- BOOM!

William carter's face throughout the whole thing had me in stiches. I swear its just way to hilarious!

You sound a bit like Karl Pilkington there, on occasion.

That "pop a cap in he ass" bit made me laugh so hard, I spit on my screen

Why stick Xcom in it though, why not just make a completely new game. I just don't get it.

"...while the chef is firing jacket potatoes at your mouth with a tennis ball cannon" cracked me up.

thanks, now i want a stack of eleven domino's pizzas

It took me 6 years to notice, that the black lines on the Cover are supposed to be that black censoring stuff and that its a reference to the declassified part of the titel....

The explorers beard looked like his face was :D

I wouldn't want to follow up *dead* Freddy Mercury, to be fair. His residual mustache charisma would upstage me.

My only quess is that they had already spent so much money on this one already, and didn't want to just throw it away. That is the only explenation i can give for them actually making this game.

My mate just showed me an episode of this and now i'm sitting down watching them all. How does this not have more view?

I was confused about why Yahtzee would be ordering Domino's, but then I remembered that's because I live in the US and it's utter tripe here. Apparently it's good everywhere else though. :/

Well, I'm honored you think so highly of us as a group. I'm sorry this comment has little to do with the discussion at hand and even less with Mr. Croshaw's video, but I just wanted to thank you for what is genuinely the most uplifting thing I've heard in quite a while. Many thanks.

I want a main-character who follows the rules and doesnt get results.

Love the Half Life reference at 2:12

The fact that we've given creatures like giant squids a name doesn't make them any less of a terrifying monster.

I actually love playing both games. The story is great, the gameplay works, and I enjoy the progression.

Wasn't the "this shit ain't my XCOM" thing started by Spoony with his whole "betrayal" nonsense that got him into serious trouble with Channel Awesome?

3:24 the Escapist watermark lines up perfectly with the line on the mass effect 3 logo

No monsters in the forest, they exist. They are called BEARS

thats really cool! my dad works with a lot of people with learning difficulties and i've met a lot of them and they have had trouble interacting in any way, but i'm really glad to hear you have no trouble communicating, i'm sure some of it is to do with the better level of care people with learning difficulties have had in the past even before 15 years ago

Thanks a lot, Yahtzee! Now I want Dominoes...

Honestly this game was amazing in the first few levels when you were fighting in towns. There's just something about soldiers using WW2 era weaponry in a 60's styled American town that just tickles my fancy

Firaxis are redeeming themselves with XCOM 2 tho :D

On the cover of XCOM: Enemy Unknown GOTY edition it should say "Like 11 stacked pizzas - Ben Croshaw"

I just bought this for a fiver in ASDA!

I think it may be in reference to a song that Collegehumor did sometime ago called 'We didn't start the flame war' which was a parody of 'We didn't start the fire'.

I approve of the pizzas

That sandwich is absolutely coming soon, and I can't believe it's not already available.

Please review xcom enemy within, I know it's kind of the same but it's a Lot better

Oh Yahtzee, you make me laugh more than any other part of youtube.

im not ganna watch this guy for the rest of the day annnnnnnnd I wasted 5 hours

Ooooh. That's where it came from. I work for domino's and I get this damn request all the time.

"Cause its mah job" I'm sorry, but that line was fucking adorable, dood~ :3

Your picture + your comment = Magnificent.

Ironic thing is dominos pretty much does that in America

It is weekly, it just takes youtube a while to get them up; you can find the most recent ones on the escapist website if he's uploaded any.

Yahtzee always manages to make me laugh.

That beginning was told like a true Aussie.

I feel like Im grinding zero punctuation videos sometimes, I come out from my half bored stupor and realise I have just spent 3 hours of my life doing something slightly boring.

you want to characterized permadeath characters? well play fire emblem then, and don't blame me when you restart every mission 50 times trying to keep everyone alive

I actually thought the trailers for the original idea for the Bureau were very interesting and different. Even if it did look like a generic shooter, everything else about it was fascinating.

I like the X-Com series and avoided this one cause of said reason..... I LIKE X-Com games... Yet they still fitted this into Enemy Unknown...... TWICE

He did the review for Saints Row 4 on the Escapist website. To put it short he had fun.

That sounds like my kind of sandwich.

lol @ the dialogue options with Heinrich.

I would listen to undead freddie mercury, He could be a mummie since zombies and vampires are played out which freddie mercury will never be

Done on The Escapist website. Maybe it'll get on RU-vid next week

It was a horrible horrible game, but I did like that thing they did at the very end. Now that was a creative way to make TPS into FPS.

"..to see if we can get two pizzas I as slices of bread - and nine pizzas as the filling!" That's 9+2=11 .....Illumiyahtzee conforsmd

I WILL make that sandwich AND DUB IT The Pizza Stacker Sandvich! yes I love TF2

BETRAYL! BETRAAAAAAAAYL!

This game was like a child's lost balloon. Everyone who saw it wondered where it world go, but when it popped everyone forgot about it.

I just wish they'd made the game as originally intended, the early gameplay videos looked great and had genuine mystery to them. If only the Xcom fans had kept their mouths shut.

The funny thing is that quite a lot of people hated XCOM Enemy Unknown, mainly the neckbeards who wanted something that was "exactly the same as XCOM: UFO Defense," and began to complain when it was anything but.

As someone with Aspergers I would like to thank you for your comment.

He has his own channel with all of his content alone on it. Your wet dream is now fulfilled.

Just go to the Escapist site proper, he updates around noon on wednesdays, EST.

I'm not gonna lie, I thought that familiar looking character at 2:13 was Walter White and not Gordon Freeman for a second. Which woulda been funny... "Let's throw meth at the aliens!"

That Pizza Sandwich sounds awesome

Archer was not the first to discover the turtal necks true potential as a tactical garment.

He already did it. You can watch it on the escapist website.

Funny thing. I just got back from a restaurant where they make a burger using pizza instead of a bun.

Pizza sandwich sounds like heaven

Yahtzee, you`re the only reason i subscribed to the Escapist. Churn out more vids please. You can review anything really.. anything.. a piece of cardboard.

As a cook I'd love to fire baked potatoes into the dining room with a tennis cannon

They both have a place in the gamer world. Considering that RTS is for the hectic and fast-thinking strategist. And the turn based strategy is for those who would rather take some time before making their next move to avoid unnecessary risks... If possible.

hes got his hands deep trying to find the faults, its a tough task

It's on the escapist website.

Now I remember. I've always got trouble remembering faces. Thanks

Long have I waited for this review, ever since I played the Buearo. I am not disappointing. Lets see him do Lost Planet 3...

5:10 Yeah ask Robotnik from Sonic for Hire how doing that with tacos worked out for him.

Pretty close to the start, happy with that performance.

It's like the G.I.R.L. dilemma. Tons of people either pretend to have Aspergers or mistakenly associate themselves with that condition, which doesn't make things easier or comfortable for the handful of people who actually do have Aspergers.

The thing about this game that suprised me was the plot twist, in which you discover that you are actually playing as an ethereal alien bonded to william, which made me go, "holy shit!"

1:23 - People's response to Sonic Mania 1:30 - Sega still bringing out Sonic Forces