STAR WARS Zero Company™

As a huge fan of the x-com series and being someone who modded the republic commando's and odst into the game this is such a welcome addition to the star wars gaming world. I'm only a couple hours in but it's similar enough to x-com that its familiar and enjoyable, but it's significantly easier even on hard mode and more story driven. Tons of different abilities and mechanics so it feels like it's own addition to this game genre and not a complete x-com rip off. I do recommend it but as most EA games are on launch there are quite a few glitches, nothing game breaking but clipping clothes and buildings as well as issues with customization like custom characters save files blending for some reason. I play a lot of star wars miniatures and this truly feels like a video game version of it. Overall definitely recommend but don't rush into it, there's no multiplayer, you're not missing out on the moment, maybe wait for a 10% off sale.

I like this game.

Love it so far. People have been complaining about performance issues, but I'm not experiencing anything! Overall a fun strategy game, worth the money in my opinion.

Wow, this is peak. Shout out to whoever the voice acting director was.

Great game for people who like X-Com. Good story, fun combat, maybe a tad easy in some places. Performance wise definitely needs some polish (talking about the regular lock ups after a combat turn). Its a good thing they didn't furlough 80% of the development team right before launch otherwise the necessary patches would be much harder to make.

First impressions: This game, to me, plays like Marvel Midnight Suns meet XCom 2. What I mean is that the "Den" and all the conversation options feel a lot like the Midnight Suns base mechanics, but the combat plays more like XCom 2. I have not had any technical issues on a fairly low-end rig, but I get that others are having more problems. The character appearance customization leaves something to be desired. I'm glad they're not foisting up 50 different shades of pedo-lite anime girls, but a few more blandly normal looking face options would be good. So far the combat has felt good with a nice mix of cover shooter tactical gameplay that brings back XCom 2 better than any other game I've played in this genre for a while. Finding cover and laying down overwatches feels good and there's complexity to the AP system that is novel and interesting. The maps so far play more like a puzzle to be solved and less like the open-ended structure of XCom 2, which to me is a downside, but it's a fair sight better than Chimera Squad was. If you liked Midnight Suns, Xcom 2, and the Star Wars IP, this game will scratch those itches. I wouldn't say it's likely to be a GOTY candidate but its a solid entry. I'm also very curious to see where the development of the game heads, XCom 2 was a good game initially but really came into its own with the expansion and became an all-time great when the Long War modpack came along. I hope they allow this game the freedom to grow in its own direction and make use of the community's feedback.

Engaging gameplay and not too bad storyline. That said - performance could have been better: nothing critical but rarely freezing screen and textures loading in cinematics with mine not the worst hardware is hard to understand I believe those who love tactics and Star Wars universe would enjoy once technical condition is improved...

Fun story, fun combat.