XCOM: Enemy Within vs Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

The gaming genre of turn based strategy lends itself very well to touch screen devices. It is actually easier to interact with the characters on screen with ones fingers instead of a mouse.

XCOM sets the standard as to what to expect in turn based strategy gaming. Players use soldiers to fight off an alien invasion by utilizing cover, flanking and other strategy tactics to defeat the alien baddies on each level of grid based environments.

For a series that is regarded as hardcore gaming even on PC, to see this franchise come to mobile is a godsend.

There is a new resource known as Meld that allows the user to purchase upgrades.

Epic game, same as PC version, for lower price.

Enemy Within is and expansion on the classic Enemy Unknown. With Enemy Withing players are given new options such as maps, missions, enemies and of course the new Mech Suits.

The choices the player makes from what kind of upgrades to use to what soldier to send where on a battle map will effect later game play.

There is support for asynchronous online multiplayer built into the game over Google Play Services.

A strategy game such as this is often not expected to have a storyline, or if so, a good one. But this game has an interesting and surprising one.

Many possibilities for upgrades are available in the game, which is impressive. Cybergenetics and genetics mods are some of the options you can use as upgrades in the game.

There's a ton of different tracks to race on, each with their own unique hazards and tricks to learn.

As each lap is run the levels in game will transition and change, which makes learning and adapting to the tracks something each player needs to consider.

Vehicles change shape at various points in the race with each variant of the vehicle behaving slightly differently offering more variety in each race.