The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

this game sucks

It’s so unfortunate I had to abandon this game part-way through. I love the idea on paper: a real-time third-person shooter with squad mechanics from the XCOM turn-based strategy games, where you can direct your troops into precise cover spots and call in their special abilities while working alongside them in the field. Too bad it’s ruined by the poor squad AI. Your teammates constantly get behind the wrong side of cover, run straight through enemy fire, and do other boneheaded maneuvers if you don’t constantly babysit them. The shooting portion doesn’t even feel great either. William controls very rigidly, turning slowly and taking too long to complete vault and cover animations. The shooting is okay but suffers from bullet sponge syndrome common in shooters with long time-to-kill. Enemies don’t seem to physically react to getting shot either. The game also lacks the resource management aspect of its isometric counterpart. As soon as you find a new weapon, you get an indefinite number of them to pass around your entire squad, rendering previous guns entirely obsolete. It’s not like Enemy Unknown, where you occasionally had to send in a rookie with an assault rifle because you didn’t have enough money for another laser gun yet. Even the permanent death of your teammates just doesn’t feel impactful. By the mid-game, you’ll likely have an army of high-ranking soldiers thanks to the unfailable dispatch missions. Topping it all off, The Bureau inherits several problems common in games of its time: -- Long stretches of running through empty hallways that serve no purpose beyond connecting the combat zones together -- Pointless attempts at worldbuilding through poorly-written dialogue trees you have to slog through -- A hub world far too big for the amount of content in it The game [i]does[/i] have its moments. It’s genuinely satisfying to pull off long chains of squad orders, but all these issues firmly demote the experience from “fun little novelty” to “something you beat once and never touch again.”

Не играл в Xcom и не знаком с серией, брал игру когда она вышла по предзаказу,уж больно мне старая Area 51 нравится и эта игра была чем то схожа,но почему то дошли руки только в 2025 году)Считаю что для того времени игра была бомбой,но даже в 25 году в нее можно играть потому что последние игры не такие эксперементальные чтоли)вообще Сел играть,кайфанул,большего не надо)классная игрулька)

Best XCOM game ngl, wish there were more like this

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love the game . Has a few sound drops but i am sure ill find a fix .

Honestly, not terrible, but nothing worth getting into either. Maybe buy it on a massive sale? The gameplay is simply Mass Effect-style, but frankly, even on the hardest difficulty you can manage without it and make it just a simple third person shooter. The plot is a nothingburger, really predictable for the most part, no characters were memorable. And... there's really not much else to talk about. Nothing to complain about, but also not much to praise either, a 5/10 game. Probably not worth your time an money, but maybe, if you really like the world of xcom or the Mass Effect-style gameplay? I dunno.