Following on from the shock announcement of XCOM: Chimera Squad, a small, standalone game that has the frighteningly shut launch date of April 24th, we’ve tracked down some footage. If you need to see the motley crew of people and aliens working collectively in turn-based concord, breach this web page break together with your greatest officers.
Your crew are a mixture of people and aliens, defending the folks of City 31 from these in search of to finish the interspecies alliance that adopted on from XCOM 2. Here’s what that appears like.
Chimera Squad’s work begins earlier than you even begin to combat. Breaching mode helps you to decide and select the place you enter the battle, and the order you ship your squad in. There’s loads of choices: on this, the entrance door might be bashed open and charged by way of whereas the facet home windows are being smashed in to offer the factor of shock. It’s the form of factor that units up weird eventualities as a matter after all: the video reveals a large snake clinging to a ladder to breach assault an alien, and that’s precisely what games are all about. That snake additionally has a capability that lets it slither by way of vents for a bonus. I like it.
The sides will alternate between single unit turns throughout every combat (fairly than the entire squad shifting collectively), but it surely’s a set-up that may simply be gamed with particular talents. You can change the flip order and swap squad members round. It appears like a good, tactical dance with simply sufficient leeway so that you can get out of a jam.
You’re additionally combating the ever-growing unrest within the wider metropolis. Not each mission you go on will probably be of unimaginable technological significance, however you’ll need to point out your face in areas the place the inhabitants is feeling below siege. The game will fail you if the inhabitants is just too scared.
Every XCOM has a base so that you can work at. Chimera’s will allow you to improve, restore, and restore your squad. You may even name in an android if one among your crew is lacking.
It’s out on April 24th on Steam, and it’s at present on sale for 50%. It’ll price £8.50/€10/$10 till May 1st.
