XCOM®: Chimera Squad

Tactiquement plus limité que XCOM 2, moins intéressant... Mais aussi plus stable et moins buggé que ce dernier. Une bonne entrée dans la série. L'histoire est oubliable, vraiment. Les personnages, qui ne sont plus juste des soldats comme dans XCOM 2, mais sont des personnages à part entière avec leur histoires et personnalités, manquent cruellement de développement, et ne peuvent pas mourir. Ca enlève de la tension pour pas grand chose. Le gameplay est bon, moins brutal que XCOM 2 au début, et une fois qu'on arrive vers la fin ça devient comme dans celui-ci un gros power trip tellement vos personnages sont inarrêtables. Les missions sont divisées en zones, pas d'infiltration ici, c'est juste enchaîner les combats. Les nouvelles phases de brêches sont... pas terribles, ça ajoute pas grand chose et c'est répétitif. On sait systématiquement ce qui va nous tomber dessus et combien de combats on va avoir. Encore une fois, pas de tension de ce côté là. La partie stratégique avec la gestion des districts est, pareillement, plutôt oubliable, c'est pas mauvais mais sans plus. Sinon les personnages sont funs à utiliser, les aliens maintenant jouables permettent de nouveaux trucs, même si l'équilibrage serait à revoir, certains personnages étant nettement plus puissants que les autre (coucou Claymore et Blueblood qui nettoient la carte en un tout ou deux).

Got this on sale and am really pleased with it. Yes, like the other reviews mention, this is not a mainline XCOM game, but it takes a neat spin on the series and executes it well. The format of the turn system I think is an improvement on the original design. It's definitely more railroady, but for the game it makes sense. Good voice acting, passable story, solid gameplay. If you enjoyed The Bureau, you'll probably like this Xcom spinoff too.

XCOM Chimera Squad is a very solid, skirmish scale wargame set after the events of XCOM 1 and 2. It bosts many advantages over the other games, although it has simplified base building, which may be a turn off to the derranged masochists who liked X1's pain in the ass base tetris. The narritive is significantly more in keeping with the actual scale of events in gameplay, no more taking on an entire planetary invasion fleet with 4 guys in a trenchcoat pretending to be an army. This time you're fighting various baddies in one single city, baddies powerful enough for the local cops to be unable to match them, but weak enough for it to actually make sense that a team of 4 can beat them. The characters have a lot more personality then in previous games where they were just cardboard cutouts with randomly generated stats. Now each character has unique customization, and all sorts of cool combat options. All in all, a very solid sequil to XCOM's greatest hits!

I don't think seen a single encounter so far (and levels are made of multiple encounters) that hasn't involved having to play around abilities or items not acting as they should. This ranges from cease-fire grenades just not frocing enemies to reload as they will still move and shoot despite being at the center of the blast all the way to if two of my teammates are next to each other in the turn order(there is an ability to do specifically this) then I'll be unable to select a target to shoot at as it'll instead only show me the following team mates greyed out abilites. plenty of other bugs are ported over from Xcom 2 but it's really exciting to see the new ones they added exclusively for chimera squad.

I have enjoyed XCOM since Terror from the Deep, and have enjoyed the renaissance the series has had since Firaxis took over. While, this one is not your typical XCOM experience, I thoroughly enjoyed how it is more dynamic and fast-paced. With a busy life as a parent, it is nice to spend 10-20 minutes and get a couple missions completed or advance a few days and make some progress. Yes, there are some things that make this less complex than a traditional XCOM title. Yes, Intel is overpowered, but it is still a fantastic game overall. I would say go for it, if you are into any sort of tactical experience.