Hard West

This games excels at creating a west-sci fi atmosphere. Its a world which reminds me a bit of the first dark tower book by Stephen King: it is west dark creepy world where evil creatures roam out there. This game also is very good when it comes to voice acting and art design. There is more life in many of those portraits (pretty or ugly)than at others game plot. The tactical game is a bit tricky at first but its really easy to master and if you use properly the skill sistem (mostly cards you equip your charcters with. Also perks, the game can be brutal with injuries penalty, but thats easy to avoid just selecting an option to get enhanced perks when the wound is healed). It could be better but is enough for me, and if you get the game on a sale, its perfectly fine. The game is divided in campaigns being some of them better than others. Its a guilty pleasure to play a campaign with a guy and then playing the next casmpaign to chase and ultimately murder that guy you were playing previously. The cons are clear for me: I would ha liked more depth in the tactical combat and longer campaigns, which can not be too long because there is a point in all of them when you get really powerful (by getting more and better cards and getting access to better weapons) Still, I rate 5 stars because of the unique atmosphere, nice music, great voice acting. If you can buy it cheap, its worth trying for tactical combat lovers.

WHY did they butcher overwatch? This used to be a decent game on release, waaay back when. I played it then and just revisited it. They broke the whole mechanic.

The game is like xcom, cept for the fact there is no way to cover yourself with overwatch, or other people, a bad guy can just run right bloody next to you and blow your dome all over the place, while if you even attempt to go near a enemy in cover, (within like 3 tiles) you immediately suffer 5 damage (typically a death sentance or instant kill). Ive had situations where there are no enemies on screen, but i know they are coming, and i cant do anything. i just wait till the ai blue moves (moving where they have a turn to shoot after movement) into range and pray they dont get a stupid crit shot. In addition, one of the scenarios uses an item where u lose luck CONSTANTLY where luck is the equivalent of the miss chance. so in other words, the longer the round goes on, the worse you'll do. Encouraging rush tactics in a strategy game is ok, but outright telling the player you cant try to play our game the way you want to play it, is outright frustrating. I like the game, but it really pisses me off.

Great atmosphere but had to give up, stuck in a level as it's unfair and impossible to finish. Difficulty really unfair, see the others comments for more..

Totally recommend the game to everyone! I've finished it in "easy mode" already once in order to see how the story evolves, while playing some of the scenarios twice to explore different alternatives. It works both for games that want to have 15 - 20 hours of interesting, quality time, as well as for people who prefer a higher challenge - depending on the game difficulty you choose to go for ;) Problems and bugs present in earlier versions have been dealt with (at least I didn't happen to encounter any) Enjoy the game, people!