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• Hey, It's That Voice!: The spokesperson of the Council of Nations is voiced by Jon Bailey.
  • Dr. Shen is the guy from the Dharma videos in Lost.
    • Those who've been gaming long enough to have played the original may remember him better as Vagabond.
  • Female voice 2 is Ashley Williams. Another one is Jack.
    • Brian Bloom's a male soldier too.
• Memetic Mutation: Jake Solomon's "That XCOM, baby!" whenever something goes wrong.
  • Spacebattles swiftly took to calling Total Party Kill missions "Code Black".
  • On the 2K forums, any reference to Blaster Launcher always mentions that it's GLORIOUS.
• Running the Asylum: Pretty much everyone on the development team adored the original. Enforced for those who hadn't played it before; every other Friday, time was set aside to play the original. All of them became addicted.
  • New hires had to beat the original before they could start working on the new one, to boot. It's a wonder the game was ever finished in the first place.
• A story Quentin Smith of the "Sit Down and Play" site told was that in the early stages of development, the developers couldn't figure out how the new XCOM was supposed to play. So they went to the house of Sid Meier and used dice, paper and wooden tokens as a bare-bones XCOM to get a feel of it. An XCOM board game... Wouldn't you wanna get your friends around a table to give it a shot?