Posted on: July 7, 2015

metzge

Jeux: 97 Avis: 1

A blast from the past

The full review can be found on Start 2 Continue: http://start2continue.com/posts/2015/7/6/review-xenonauts-pc Excerpt: Xenonauts is a non-canon throwback to the classic XCOM: UFO Defense in aesthetic, difficulty, and execution. You find yourself as a commander of an international paramilitary organization during the Cold War, dedicated to repelling spacemen from beyond the stars. You choose a location to set up your HQ, build extra facilities, plan squad loadouts, hire and fire support staff, and manage research and development--to name just some of your new responsibilities. Your objective, as you can imagine, is to keep the aliens from conquering Earth. Each playthrough follows the same rough story and difficulty progression, but the circumstances and outcomes can vary dramatically depending how well you can react to everything the game throws at you. I gotta hand it to Goldhawk Interactive: they certainly know their way around a strategy game. The level of depth is on-par with Total War and other grand strategy games, requiring you to make tough decisions and sometimes finding yourself having to choose the lesser of two evils. As you progress, you'll be able to salvage alien technology for research and reverse engineering, allowing you to upgrade your troops and equipment. Despite your soldiers being absolute garbage in the beginning (to their credit, M16s weren't too good against plasma rifles and you'd be a little nervous too fighting aliens for the first time), most enemies can be overcome through the use of defensive tactics, clever ambushes, and keeping behind cover. ... At the end of the day, Xenonauts is a must-have for fans of the alien defense and turn-based RPG disciplines. From its nostalgic visual and story appeal to its deep-yet-intuitive gameplay mechanics having you command multiple operations around the world, Goldhawk's game is a welcome and refreshing addition to the library of anyone who's looking for a good challenge.

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Posted on: November 21, 2014

mushuwu158

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A nice mix of old and new

Very well executed strategy games that combines the hardcore old-school gameplay of the original UFO: Enemy Unknown with enough of XCOM: Enemy Unknown's streamlined nature so that it can fit into the modern gaming industry.

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Posted on: November 5, 2015

Faenrir

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Jeux: 341 Avis: 45

Good intentions...poor game

I really liked the Xcom game firaxis put together. It had smooth combat, good graphics, good risk/reward (losing team members happens a lot)...but yet it wasn't punishingly difficult. Sure, some missions were hell but at least, if you planned well, you could end up with little to no casualties. This game ? Well it's basically the same concept but poorly executed. The game is very difficult and your whole crew will die over and over (a sniper won't hit an alien yet the aliens will oneshot him), the graphics are really poor and overall, you feel like you're watching stats line and a bland world map 80% of the time. The design is really poor and as a result, the game really doesn't feel any fun. Maybe if you like hardcore difficulties, you will like it but then again, even if it wasn't as difficult, the game still wouldn't be much fun.

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Posted on: December 11, 2014

Nystur

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Jeux: 92 Avis: 4

Lacking

The music isn't memorable, the combat is glitched and poor; it has little story; and the ending, victorious image feels like a hollow reward. There's some copy-pasting going on in that ending picture, too. (Two of the men, on the left, have raised elbows which look identical.) It had many issues which made it annoying, and I didn't enjoy it. The ground-combat was the most flawed. Reserving TU to do burst shots didn't work. Hiding behind cover was often pointless. Shots went more than half-way across the map for the aliens, and they had impeccable aim. Meanwhile, my battle-hardened soldiers had trouble shooting aliens at all. They'd often miss an alien that had no cover, and was only a few tiles away. Sometimes my soldiers would go berserk, and even miss their allies next to them. Morale was supposed to stop their mental breakdowns, but its depletion didn't show like health loss did. The morale bar always looked full. I even had one solider whose morale was 99+ at full: it'd show as full while he went under alien control, dropped his weapon and ran, panicked, or went berserk. What makes all of this especially bad is that ground combat is a major part of the game. Its issues become irritating over time. Air combat was also problematic. Auto-resolving gets worse results than fighting the battles out. This could make sense since it forces the player to play. However, these air fights are repetitive, frequent, and dull. The temptation to auto-resolve was high, but a player would likely lose if this was done. For example, I could manually take down 3 heavy fighters with 2 interceptors and with ease, but auto-resolve showed that I had almost no chance to win. To progress well I had to constantly micromanage the planes. Furthermore, if a battle goes sour, you have to wait and watch while your planes head for the edge of the grid. You can't simply hit a button and cancel out. Even if there's no chance of the enemy catching your retreating planes, you have to watch it try.

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Posted on: September 4, 2019

HammerAndRavens

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Jeux: 188 Avis: 16

Nothing that catchy for me.

A technically complex and potentially beautiful but cold and incredibly hard heir of the XCom series, from which it copies most of the concepts, mechanics and style. Don't get me wrong, for some people it's probably an awesome game, going back to the time of the first XCom games with a strong original vibe. Unfortunately then the game turns deadly at random times, with the player not being able to do much to prevent it apparently. I had the feeling i might have loved it, then when i started it I felt i would not, then in less than one hour i had it uninstalled. It really is more a simulator than a strategy game in a way it seems to become quickly repetitive. Like i said, some might love it, but me I didn't. Gets a 60/100 from me because i mostly see the potential for others, but for me it was a miss.

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