STAR WARS Zero Company™

Good game and a good alternative to the XCOM series. Characters are likeable and a strong development with their lore if you pay attention. The main gameplay is great, confusing at first however a few hours in and it will all become clear on what abilities do what, big weapon and build variety for your characters. Character customization is really good and very modular if you wanna make your own Clone Squad or Legion. For performance i never had any issues and ran on average 60-80 FPS on ultra, so the problems are just user related rather then the game, since NVIDIA released a new driver that reportedly fix things (i'm AMD so i can't confirm). The negatives: - The camera is terrible, its my biggest complaint so far, i hope they patch it so the camera isn't forced in place when reinforcements deploy for example. - No breathing room between Main and Optional missions, for example i need to build up my credits, well too bad we gonna force you to play a Main mission right after you completed a single Optional mission. - Some of the level design is.... questionable and not really well made, for example the Lucrahulk mission you get aerial bombarded at end of each turn, it keeps going up the level in segments each turn and you get attacked by enemies at the same time. Now i'm not saying its a hard level, i'm saying is it leaves no room to take out enemies and forces you to move your units in bad spots, the bombardment zones also don't highlight an area correctly, so if your unit is just next to the bombardment zone and not in it they still get hit. - The AI is sometimes dumb, had multiple instances where they attempt to shot my units through a wall, they also seem to stay and walk into bombardment zones.

I'm a big fan of Star Wars and always have been. I played X Com and enjoyed the gameplay, but not necessarily the story. So you take the best of both and I am there. The graphics are a bit buggy on my Legion, but not enough to detract from my overall enjoyment and gameplay experience. If you enjoy tactical style gameplay and love the Star Wars universe, then this game is for you.

Zcom

This game is REALLY good but man the performance is bad

One of the best Star Wars games I've played in years.

It's too boring to be that expensive. No aspect of this game stands out in any way. It obviously has been pushed through a dozen of Disney's corporate content filters to make sure that absolutely nothing is left that could be seen as controversial in any way. No edges, nothing special, nothing controversial, nothing to remember. SW:ZC is the gaming equivalent of baby formula. It's completely blant, and while it does the job, there's absolutely nothing about it that appeals to you if you're an adult. The fights are among the most boring ones that I've seen in my life. It's basically a sequence of arena fights that thoroughly fail at giving you the illusion that you play in a Galaxy Far Far Away. As with all the dreck that is pumped out by large cooperations, it's just painful to think about what a banger this could have been if a normal gaming studio would have been given the financial assets that was put into this, but without the interferences by the political commissars of the publisher. Just as painful as it is to watch how this slop is gobbled up by the gaming community after it has been dumped out at our feet.

It's not bad, but it's just worse xcom in basically every way. The lack of class customization means that you know exactly how every class is going to play for the ENTIRE game after just the first mission with that class. Having an upgrade system that exclusively makes a number bigger is just boring and honestly is surprising anyone is doing that in 2026. The difficulty is an absolute joke as well. I started as a medic thinking that the healing would be invaluable and I never had to use a heal a single time during my ~4 hours of playing. I once accidentally moved to the wrong square and left a guy out in the open and it just didn't matter - not a single shot on him landed, he took no damage. I don't know if this changes later on, but as of where I got to in the game you have to extract from every single mission which is just not particularly fun. Having to extract here and there for rescue/escort missions is fine, but there should definitely be missions that just end when you complete your objective instead of making me waste another 4 turns just running as far as my characters can. If you're looking for SPECIFICALLY a Star Wars Xcom game, this is probably fine. If you're looking for a good Xcom game, just play Xcom 2 again.