XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Game Over

at least no-one grew any extra limbs, right?

[DukeRevolution]

This would only be canon if the Council Spokesman missed the button to turn off the screen, even though he had a 99% chance to push it.

[TheHumbleHollow]

So kind of that Thin Man to put a gentle, reassuring hand on the spokesman to remind him how much they love him

[MSF_Soldier_Alligator]

What I think would of been epic thing to add to this was a "Last Stand" mission where you defend your base for as long as you can.

[billwilson]

In reality there werent Sectoids or Thin Man with the Council during this scene.
all it took for him to say these words was the 15ft naked Viper next to him

[autisticdegenerate]

I love how the Sectoid Commander is just standing there in the background pulling a dramatic pose while not even hiding... it's like he just wants to rub it in. Of course that could just be the Sectoid concept of "hey, want to go out for some beer? I brought this mind-controlled stooge to hold our drinks".

[bluereaper]

vahlen: "so that's it...? It's over...?"

Shen: "suits and ties... That's all they are..."

-Bradford turns, lights cigarette-


"We don't need them."

[joaodestroanticomunista]

THIS is a game over screen! I watched it for the first time while going to 61th day in Impossible Ironman.
I mean, I never let the game run so far to watch this. I always loaded or restarted the game when things were so bad.

[davidgasiorek]

Council funding or not, the Gray Market is always open.

Bet they could field a hell of a lot of firepower based on sales alone.

[DingusJoe]

This ending is now canon....

All those hours were all for nothing. )=

[CaptmagiKono]

This is a really good game-over sequence, but I still think the original X-com had a pretty amazing game-over sequence.

[Studoku]

I for one welcome our new alien overlords.

[morgandouglas]

If I could change the angles to get a view of the faces of the people in the situation room, there’s no doubt their faces would have the expressions of someone thinking “It’s over. XCOM is finished. All hope is lost.”

[generalalduin]

Well council, it would've been nice if you gave me everything I needed. A few hundred dollars, and refusing to staff my facilities, isn't going to make it easy for me to fight off the aliens.

[ZeroSupport]

I really, really like the vocabulary of the Council guy though.

[DeejayVillain]

The language used is incredibly clever and so sinister...

And then the music!!!

[CecilyRenns]

Now I don't have to remember that you guys are watching... right?

[bartlebyscribe]

That is just so...AWESOME! What a brilliant way to tell you you've lost funding;a wonderful twist on the classic!

[payasofobia]

Imagine a bunch of psi-soldiers in psionic suits.

It's not THAT bad, actually. We would still manage to become the perfect weapons, and we would help the aliens beat whatever monster faction it is that forced them to look for us.

[ZeroSupport]

I rather think that because most countries were overrun by aliens (hence the Game Over, which occurs when too many countries withdraw from the project), they found that spokesman, and since he already had little faith in the XCOM project, he was probably easy to control and shut down the operation.

[themysteriouswarlock]

POV: it’s 2025 and you’re in the war room in Ukraine and you just got a call from the US