What they made today was ultimately better than what was made yesterday. “My prototype was basically the original game, so when we changed things we could look at it and ask: Is this better than it was yesterday?” Solomon and his team at Firaxis gave themselves an incredibly difficult goal in making Enemy Unknown, and they achieved it. “What I wanted to make was a game that was true to the original.” That’s what XCOM: Enemy Unknown designer Jake Solomon said just a few short months before the game came out in 2012.
