STAR WARS Zero Company™

its Xcom. what's not to like?

Tu aimes le tour par tour et StarWars ? Ton rêve devenu réalité ! Très bon jeu avec quelques mécaniques innovantes. Bravo Bit Reactor !

Love the game so far, I hope we get even more customizations options or mod support

10/10

Very fun game with a great story! It is very hard but the story makes it worthwhile to continue. Very well acted.

TL;DR Game wants to be a combination of XCOM and Mass Effect, but fails to live up to either of them. First, performance is really terrible. I am playing on as low graphics as I can and it is still super choppy. Second, while the core mechanics are great, map design is small and incredibly reused. To the point that I start thinking, 'Ugh, this map, again?' after the third skirmish in the exact same alleyway inside the hour. The Den is both too small and too empty, and clearly a victim of the constraints of time and budget. Operations feel half baked with seemingly no appreciable costs. I would have liked if some took multiple cycles and made the Operators on them unavailable for missions. This also would have made the non-unique Operators actually relevant. Lastly, the enemy design of the cultists is too obtuse and inscrutable. I genuinely cannot tell the difference between enemy types aside from 'ranged' and 'melee' The game has a lot of good bits in it, and I feel really bad about leaving a negative review. However, those good bits feel surrounded by a slog of irritation and annoyance. I went back to play some XCOM 2 because I thought maybe I wasn't giving Zero Company a fair shake, but it was the opposite. I was blown away buy how XCOM 2 was even better than I remembered and how, despite the moments of intense frustration, I was having so much more fun. I really hope they can at least fix the performance issues, and maybe then I can change this review, but when my opinion is that I'd rather be playing a game released a decade ago, I can't recommend picking up this one.