Firaxis lead designer, Jake Solomon, walks viewers through a short gameplay demonstration of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, in this video. The footage covers some of the different classes players can take control of, in addition to the various skills and weaponry they will have at their disposal.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown, developed by Firaxis, will be released in North America on October 9th, arriving in Europe and Australia on October 12th, for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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