Posted on: December 17, 2023
XYCat
Verified ownerGames: 1157 Reviews: 35
XCOM but different
The game is very much like XCOM but with more character, as in, you don't have a squad of random guys, but a selection of voiced people with their own personality and dialogues, and with a little twist to the combat. The twist being that your squad doesn't go as an entire squad but there's a queue of what character, your or enemy, gets to do stuff, with some abilitites that allow you to jump the queue or make the enemy fall back in the queue. Also there are some abilities that you haven't seen before in XCOM games, which make it interesting. The breach mechanic is also new. And your maximum squad size is 8 and you select a new team member at a few points of the game but you can never have all the characters in one playthrough, so you can play the game slightly differently on repeated playthrough by picking different new guys. The "base" management is also different. You research new tech, buy new tech, get rare items etc. send your guys to training or to collect stuff, but you advance stuff over days, a day passes when you do a mission, research takes x days, your guy is on a collecting mission for x days (unless you abort it), etc. So with this and the queue combat you have to come up with new plans ahead than you would in XCOM 1 and 2. So what's not great about it? The conclusion of the game is veeeery underwhelming
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