STAR WARS Zero Company™

gREAT GAME. Would recommend to everyone who loves Star Wars!!

Definitely giving it a thumbs-up! The game in itself is great: great gameplay loop, great tactical combat with no FOW (which may offend some people, but makes sense to see further than 8m...), nice SW feels but more down to earth feel compared to the movies space opera. Side-note: If you rate a game by it's ability to squeeze out frame-gen or CPU utilisation, then you should "play" cinebench or benchmarks...

buggy.

Game of the Year for anyone with half a brain. Bit Reactor have really outdone themselves with Zero Company.

It's XCOM meets Mass Effect (kind of), except I'm not sure if I'm going to get to bang anyone. There are also no dialogue selectors, just cut scenes. There are main plot characters that seemingly cannot die or there will be a game over and all of the squad mates that you can get are pre-defined (not randomly generated). There is a pretty linear story line so replay-ability seems fairly limited. So if you're wanting more of a generated tactics game with unique play throughs each time like Xenonauts. This ain't it. There are some odd things about it, in terms of a squad tactics game, because it comes from EA. These are the "Mass Effect" elements. Random bits where you are walking around in 3rd person. The base between missions is also navigated third person. There is a pretty nicely detailed character creator (no naughty bits options sadly). It really feels like someone at EA pitched a squad tactics game and the managers struggled to envision something that wasn't a third person RPG. Things that would just be a cut scene in most other Xcom-likes are instead short "hallways" where you walk around in 3rd person WASD as your character and randomly interact with the environment like reading a poster for lore on the area that you're in or talking to a local NPC. I guess it's to make the environment feel more familiar but It's just odd for this type of game. There are 3 difficulties (normal/hard/expert). I'm on hard at the moment and It's not super challenging for one big reason. Your characters have 3 health pools and it's kind of annoying. Each character can go do twice and be picked up before permadeath (if you enable permadeath mode). I do wish that instead of buffing enemy HP/Damage that I could just adjust it so that my characters only had 1 or 2 HP pools. Also, enemies won't finish off your downed characters, So they just sit in the middle of a fire fight until you wander over and help them up. Gripes aside, it's a fun game and that's what matters. I have not experienced crashing like others but there are certainly some performance issues that I'm fairly confident will be patched out. If you like star wars and xcom, definitely get it. If you liked the Clone Wars lore, definitely get it. If you're just looking for another squad based tactics game maybe set a timer for 1 hour 59 mins and ponder if $50 is really worth it to you.

Amazing!

Great game and story so far, but the performance has been so-so. I don't have the most powerful GPU, but I've had to enable DLSS and drop settings to low-medium to get a consistent 50-60 FPS. Beautiful game even on medium settings.

Great characters and so far a great story. Other than chess and free mobile games, this is my first proper experience of turn based games, and i'm loving it so far. The customisation is great, and it's great to have some clone wars era content :) There are however some issues with heavy stuttering occasionally, but this is maybe once per battle. Cinematics are great. I have experienced one crash so far in 10 hours, so cant really complain too much.