XCOM: Chimera Squad Reviews
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We can all agree that the stealth announcement and eventual release of XCOM: Chimera Squad was a surprise to all of us, especially considering its budget-y, spin-off-ish nature. Chimera Squad attempts to keep the core of XCOM‘s gameplay loop alive whilst attempting to add some major changes to its formula. So, did these changes pay off?
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XCOM: Chimera Squad is a great game, all told. It's a cheap, fairly lengthy campaign that manages to be both familiar for fans of the series and offer something new and fresh to the XCOM universe.
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Riddled with many different types of bugs, XCOM: Chimera Squad is a hard sell. If you enjoy the setting and want another strategy title to play, this might be it, but you'll probably want to wait.
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A lore-breaking spinoff that removes most of what makes the new XCOM special and replaces it with short bouts of repetitive tactical combat and bad writing.
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Chimera Squad is a more focused experience, and it doesn't outstay its welcome, but that focus is something of a double-edged sword.
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Featuring a wonderful cast of characters with their own unique perks and capabilities, as well as the extremely fun Breach Mode, XCOM: Chimera Squad is a brilliant spinoff that provides a refreshing take on a classic franchise's long-standing formula.
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While not all of the wild departures fire on all cylinders, XCOM: Chimera Squad‘s open-ended difficulty settings allow everyone to bend the strong combat groundwork to their will. Chimera Squad embraces the strange, and is predominately better for it.
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XCOM: Chimera Squad is a brave adventure into new territory. Featuring a more interesting narrative design, some much-needed changes to combat, and a cast of interesting characters, all of these things would lead to a brilliant game if it weren't for the myriad of bugs, crashes, and usual XCOM tiring randomness. It's an absolute must-buy for fans of the genre, especially at its current price, but a bit more time in development wouldn't have hurt.
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Firaxis lets its hair down for a fun, ragtag twist on XCOM's proven recipe of tactics and tension.
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Your enemies want City 31 to burn. It's up to Chimera Squad to put them down.
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Firaxis trades a global war for an urban mission to defend a multi-species peace. There's a lot to like in this more intimate, experimental spin-off, but the main sequence games are still the ones to beat.
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When XCOM: Enemy Unknown released eight years ago, friendship groups were put to the test. Squadmates were transformed from randomised soldiers to real life acquaintances thanks to the detailed character customization system, and recounting the war stories to their namesakes would prove to be surprisingly delightful. That is until you started getting furious at the actual human friend when their soldier missed a 90% shot and got your other friend killed.
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XCOM: Chimera Squad brings together a huge list of fresh new ways to play. Each change introduces a new layer of strategy, and the new turn system completely upends what you know about XCOM. This is a daring new take on this venerable series, and having just completed it, I can’t wait to run it again.
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XCOM Chimera Squad is a bit of a surprise, announced this month and available ahead of what I described as “Gears of XCOM”: Gears Tactics. While Microsoft’s upcoming offering is a big budget, AAA affair (though admittedly free to those with Xbox Game Pass), Chimera Squad is looking to satisfy your RTS itch for a low, low (sale) price of just $14.98 AUD. The result is a polished, competent game that, at times, looks like it was made for a song.
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These are annoyances, though, not game breakers. Overall, Chimera Squad is solid. It's still a shadow of its progenitor, with its new ideas not quite making up for the loss of old ones. But if you try to treat it as its own thing, play at a higher difficulty, and do your best to ignore the snake's voice, I'd say it's worth a punt.
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An attempt to simplify and streamline XCOM sounds like a disaster in the making but the original’s tense turn-based combat is still highly entertaining even in this reduced form.
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XCOM: Chimera Squad may be a full XCOM spin-off, but it feels more like testing ground for radical departures from the previous two games than a proper sequel. It plays with bold changes to the existing mechanics and story, but only props them up with a thin bit of scaffolding rather than a cohesive whole. Its unique characters are wonderful and its new ideas are certainly an interesting change of pace, even if they sacrifice some of the deeper strategic choice and dynamically generated storytelling I love the series for. Thankfully, none of those changes stop its combat from still...
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