The content pack gives players an enigmatic Triad operative, divert an alien ship’s course, and to do battle with the aliens in the skies over China in a new set of linked Council missions.

It also includes three new maps tied to the council missions, and also a new playable squad character who has his own unique story, voice and customisation options available for him.

The pack will cost $6.99  on PSN and PC and 560 MSP on Xbox LIVE. It’s quite a small add-on pack but considering the details given above, it’s something good as well.

“In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, players oversee combat strategies and individual unit tactics, as well as base management and resource allocation while playing as the commander of a secret global military organization, XCOM,” reads the official description of the game.

You can read our review over here.

XCOM: Enemy Unkown is a cover-heavy, tactical game, and there were reasons to why it was designed that way. We asked lead designer and programmer Jake Solomon about this in a yet to be published interview, and he revealed how the game went through a lot of iterations before arriving at the final version, which offered a lot of tactical gameplay.

“We started with a prototype that was very similar to the original X-Com, where there wasn’t cover per se,” he said.

“We wanted a system where soldiers interacted more, and so we added abilities that linked together in interesting ways and started to work more as a squad.

“That actually made the game less interesting tactically when you had a huge number of guys because you could pretty much sweep the opposition on your turn.

“So we kept iterating on squad size and combat dynamics, and I think there was a pretty big shift at some point and the current version of the combat system was added, and suddenly the game felt a lot more tactical, and a lot more about making decisions with real consequences.”

Sounds good. If you’re on the fence regarding this game, you can read our review over here.