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Xenoblade Chronicles X: Special Edition

Exclusive to North America, the Special Edition of Xenoblade Chronicles X includes: - The game - Artbook - Matte art card of characters - OST with 10 songs on a custom USB drive

3 December 2015

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Special Edition is an adventure developed by Monolith Soft, released 3 December 2015 on Wii U.

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What Xenoblade Chronicles X: Special Edition is

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Special Edition is an adventure game developed by Monolith Soft and released in 2015. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Xenoblade Chronicles X opens as humanity, warned of its impending destruction in the crossfire between two warring alien races, constructs interstellar arks to escape Earth. However, only a few arks escape the destruction, including the White Whale ark. Two years after launching, the White Whale is attacked and transported to Mira. During the crash-landing, the Lifehold—a device housing most of the human colonists—is separated from the White Whale, and lifepods carrying colonists are scattered across Mira. The avatar is awoken from a lifepod by Elma and brought back to New Los Angeles. While suffering from amnesia, the avatar joins BLADE, working with Elma and Lin to recover more lifepods…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Xeno series

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Special Edition is the 13th of 35 entries we hold in the Xeno series. It arrived 7 months after Xenoblade Chronicles X. The next entry was Xenoblade Chronicles X: Limited Edition in 2015.

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What it launched against

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Special Edition launched on 3 December 2015, within three weeks of Star Wars Battlefront, Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege and Rainbow Six Siege.

Released around the same time: Star Wars Battlefront, Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege.

Official trailer

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When did Xenoblade Chronicles X: Special Edition come out?
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Special Edition was released on 3 December 2015 for Wii U.

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