Posted on: May 3, 2025

Vanamond3

Spiele: 44 Rezensionen: 3

Your solders are pathetically weak.

All the X-Com style games have a reputation for being difficult but this one is an exercise in masochism. When your soldiers see an alien most of them won't fire no matter how good their reflex rating is, most of your soldiers that do shoot will miss no matter how good their aim is supposed to be, and most of your shots that do hit won't get kills. Your soldiers will routinely miss aliens standing in the open while the aliens will routinely hit your people even when they're supposedly protected by cover. And the aliens have a longer visual range, especially at night, so they can shoot and kill your soldiers while the aliens are too far away for you to see, let alone shoot back at. You are outnumbered on all but the easiest of missions and most missions end up with your people having to cram into small rooms and corridors full of aliens defending from cover and through doorways. This game has a weird system for handling terrain objects and if there's so much as a blade of grass between you and the target your shot will be partially blocked, which never seems to stop the aliens from hitting your own people. And don't even try to throw hand grenades because there is absolutely no guessing where they will land and they're as likely to bounce off of something and hit your own people as the enemy. The aliens can make psionic attacks, but unlike most X-Com games, Xenonauts does not allow you to research psionics or find defenses against them. Even your soldiers with the highest resistance rating will frequently be stunned for a turn or even shoot at their squadmates, and there is absolutely not a single thing you can do about it. Xenonauts feels like trying to lead your team of poodles to victory against a team of rotweilers.

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Posted on: June 28, 2014

demonbox77

Spiele: 337 Rezensionen: 23

Great X-Com like game

Someone said "It's not X-com", he's right this is not X-com, but of all the "X-com like" games I've tried (and I've tried many) is the one that comes closer. "Backed" it a couple of years ago on Desura the game is now ready to be played, and is damn fun at it. I'm not very good at reviews so I'll just add this, this game has a soul and it shows: the graphics, the setting, the music, the Xenopedia and the actual gameplay (Intercept mechanic, Geoscape gameplay, base building and tactical maps) all contribute to make you understand the passion behind this amazing game.

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Posted on: October 21, 2016

CodeViz

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: Rezensionen: 2

If it wasn't for the bugs...

Certanly this is the closest game to UFO: Enemy Unknown that I have played. And that's a very, very good thing. It even gets rid of some repetitive micromanagement and much improves the air battles. However, I cannot give it 5 stars. It is because the game is ridden with bugs (game version says v1.65W, dunno why GoG says v1.63 at the moment). There are not a lot of crashes (although there are some). But you will see all kinds of glitches which (for me) heavily detriment the experience. You will fly through the roofs, see through walls, auto-resolve-win battles where you aren't carrying enough ammo in the first place, see dancing soldiers, have your rifles magically reload themselves, read countless text-typos, ... I've seen at least 23 different bugs and glitches in a single playthrough. It's impossible that this was missed 'by coincidence'. Assuming the bugs ever get fixed, add another star. Until they are fixed, I'm not buying Xenonauts 2. Because unlike the game authors, I do care.

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Posted on: September 22, 2017

Durg98

Spiele: 252 Rezensionen: 1

A worthy successor

All right I played lots of XCOM based games and new XCOM but none of them was as good as this one . The new XCOM was undercooked , short , without anything new or upgraded just a new graphic shit arbeit the long war changed that . Other games were closer in various degree but not enough to make it the right successor . They had their pros and cons but still It was not enough . Then I found Xenonauts and I must say that I praise the day I found it . It is hard , check . It is based in even more interesting era , check . It has better and harder air fight than original UFO check . It has new kind of weapon even more powerfull than plasma , check . It has new aircraft , check . It has multiple bases and freedom of building them , check . You don't have to go to the smallest ufo and you can bomb low priority targets , check . It has all that previous UFO had , check . Now about the cons - aliens are not as interesting as in UFO , check . New things to weapons like accessories , night vision , armor upgrade or foundry are not present like in UFO aftershock and afterlight - check . Aircraft armament which could be done better , check (Mig-31 is capable of carring machinegun and bombs and in those times building one purpose aircraft became useless . More vehicles like mechs or tanks could appear , check . Psychers and augmentation could appear , but in more beefy form than in new XCOM , check . The final mission could be better , check . Still despite it's cons Xenonauts is far better than any new XCOM and XCOM based games . The fighting mechanics is the same , the soldiers can die even with great armor (but unlike in UFO the weapons are balanced ) the game has various difficulty levels . This game is a true successor of XCOM franchise . It didn't screw up the old good elements but It removed and replaced all bad elements . And to those fanatics of UFO . Remember that old XCOM also had a cons . Same difficulty , unbalanced weapon , you had to go to every UFO .

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Posted on: October 27, 2014

Odbod

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: Rezensionen: 1

Small but significant changes

By and large a faithful re-make of the original, and the biggest criticism I would make is that not much was added. However, having played the original, I can say that is does play differently - or, at least, that the subtle mechanical differences meant that I played it differently. This is probably best illustrated with an example: in the original, you shot down UFOs so that you could capture the wreckage and use it to make plasma cannons or whatever - which I then usually sold for money. As such, once I had my production lines set up I really didn't mind how much I got from my backing countries. In Xenonauts, selling manufactured goods is always at a loss, so you are entirely reliant on funding and UFO salvage. This meant that in Xenonauts, I shot down UFOs so that they didn't upset anyone - and I would usually airstrike the crash sites, as it brought in almost as much money as (or sometimes even more than) sending in ground troops. So, at least for my style of play, Xenonauts was more focused on shooting down as many UFOs as possible before they did too much damage, with ground missions done on an as-needed basis, whereas the in the original as long as I shot down one UFO I was happy. As such, I found Xenonauts much more tense, and the little notifications that 'HMAS Victoria strafed - 27 dead' really meant something. Reading some other reviews, I must say that apart from a few bugs (you can sometimes see inside UFOs from the outside) I didn't have any trouble with line-of-sight - when stood next to a corner a soldier can usually see around it quite well, and there were none of the 'Can he shoot from there? No? Why not?' problems that I had with the Firaxis game (sometimes they shot through walls, and other times they wouldn't shoot something that they could actually see - still a good game, though, if not quite my taste.)

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