The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

A mixed bag of everything. Had a lot of fun blasting aliens, "tactical" squad commands are fun and for the length of the campaign it only started to get boring by the end of it. Setting and atmosphere is amazing. If you try to shoot everything yourself you will run out of ammo, so you have to use your squad. There is plenty of weapons so if you go around blasting you will be forced to try them out. Story is... there. Imagine movie "Independence Day" but in the 60s. It plays out OK if you accept that it is "comic book story" essentially. Had problems with game crashing, disabling PhysX helped with that. Music would glitch out sometimes, breaking the immersion. AI sometimes would misinterpret the command and run head straight into enemy fire, dying in the process, which got pretty annoying. Overall I really liked it, but it's quite rough around the edges.

Anders geht auch Hier geht’s zu meinem Waetsch's Play: https://youtu.be/dJTynheRWvs Hier versucht sich die XCOM-Reihe mal an etwas Neuem. Statt taktische Befehle als anonymer "Overwatch" zu geben, sind wir mittendrin und schauen unserem Alterego Agent Carter über die Schulter. Taktische Befehle können wir unseren zwei Teamkameraden dennoch geben. Neben dieser spielerischen Änderung befinden wir uns auch ein paar Jahre weiter in der Vergangenheit. 1962, um genau zu sein. Die Grafik macht immer noch eine gute Figur und auch die Vertonung kann sich hören lassen. Die deutsche Sprachausgabe hört sich gut an und das ganze Spiel versprüht 60er-Flair. In den Einsätzen schießen wir uns dann gemeinsam mit unseren Kameraden, den wir über ein Steuerrad Befehle erteilen können, durch die Missionen. Zwischen den Missionen stellen wir unser Team für den nächsten Einsatz zusammen und rüsten es aus. Ein erfrischend anderes XCOM, was eine Menge Spaß macht. Folgt mir auch gerne bei Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41912197-waetschs-play

Schade das es durch die Presse und die Online Medien zerrissen wurde. Ich fand es toll und hätte gerne einen zweiten Teil gehabt. War eine etwas andere Sicht auf das XCOM Universum aber trotzdem spannend.

Rating 7.5/10 Overview: Cover Based- Third Person Shooter The Bad: - Your teammates are completely useless. First they don't manually use there abilities, you have to manually select them for them to use it. Some people may like this, I did not. The second major problem is that they make very stupid decisions resulting in death. The pop out of cover at the wrong time and get shot at, move to locations where the enemies are, etc. The third major problem is that they do very little damage, 99% of the kills will come from you. For a game that is supposed to be a "tactical" shooter , there is nothing tactical about it. Because of the stupidity of your teammates the game plays out like a solo third person shooter. You only have teammates to choose their abilities. The Good: +I really loved the 1960's American setting. Both artistically and technically the developers did a good job making this game feel alive. +The game takes place across a series of locations each one unique in its own way. The game has a lot of good set pieces +Side quests are fleshed out and fun to play + The game allows you to take 2 squad members with you into battle. You can customize your squad any way you like. There are four classes to choose from: support, sniper, engineer, and commando. Each class has its own set of abilities and weapons to choose from. You pick whatever you want to suit your playstyle. + The game has a wide variety of abilities not only for the main character but your squad as well. The abilities are varied for each class and serve a very practical purpose in battle The Average: The story starts off strong and is constantly building up to something...problem is, the story starts getting too convoluted for its own good. Eventually it gets so ridiculous it becomes hard to care about the story. By the end of the game I was playing it just to see the next setting. The characters are also one dimensional and a bit stereotypical. The game doesn't do a whole lot to change up the game play formula. Every side quest/main mission plays out the same way, kill lots of enemies, move on to the next area...repeat. Conclusion For all the fun I had with this game, it does have some serious faults. I would have liked to see more variety in the gameplay and stronger A.I. I still think its worth playing especially if you like cover based shooters.

Games like this deserve a “meh” option on Steam. It’s not awful, but I don’t really recommend it. The story atmosphere is good, but the story is bland and every character, except maybe the Aussie scientist, is stupid and unlikable. They make bad choices at every opportunity. There is one neat story idea near the end, but that would have been better used in a game where you actually make any choices that impact the course of the plot. The combat was fun at first, but got repetitive fairly quickly. There is probably more depth to be plumbed out of the game than I got in my one play through with a sniper and engineer squad, but you are not really incentivized to mix up your tactics. I never lost a squad member unless it was a total loss and I restarted from the last checkpoint. I’ll add that the repetitive combat wasn’t helped by the length of time between checkpoints. I frequently put the game down out of frustration after finding how far back I had to go when a long encounter ended with a muton landing behind me and killing my entire party. The real missed opportunity was the standard X-Com setup where the base segment and mission segments feed into each other. Any of the same research or management segments in the base to give you better equipment or abilities would have made those sections more than pseudo interactive cutscenes. As it stood, the only through line between them was that your squad members are just as idiotic in combat as the story characters are outside of it. I suppose I should appreciate the consistency in world building, but I mostly just wanted to let the aliens win, and then go play actual X-Com. 3/10, will probably entirely forget I’ve played this one.

Fun Gears of War clone in the 1960s. Probably as close to a Men in Black game as we're gonna get. I liked how vibrant and detailed this game was. Definitely was refreshing visually compared to lots of other games of this time and definitely compared to all these demon clown paywall fps games now. Seeing how this is an unreal engine 3 game, the depth of field and textures could look a bit blurry, but I think the lighting and color palette helped them not look so distracting. Texture quality isn't a strong suit, but it looks pretty good. Took me about 15 hours to beat the game and some side missions, so it was definitely not some short one and done shovelware game. Felt fairly complete and polished, but admittedly wasn't very original other than being kind of a Men in Black game. I only ran into two bugs during the whole game. One bug at the end, that being the audio for the pre-rendered cutscenes just stopped at the 4th to last mission. So the last 4 hours or so of the game just had silent movies playing for no understandable reason. Other than that, the frame rate was a bit iffy at 1440p, so lowering it to 1080p fixed it. Which, seeing how I can't notice any difference between those two resolutions anyway, it didn't bug me at all, although it was a bit odd to see a 2013 game made for Xbox 360 stutter and lag to like 10 fps in a cave when I went to an alien tower with Dr Weir. Two things I didn't like were how the AI kept running away and disobeying orders to take cover, and how low res and blocky the pre-rendered cutscenes looked. When the in game cutscenes look better than the faked CG ones, that's odd. Usually the faked ones are where you lie and make everything look too good, but this was a rare case of the opposite being true, the pre-rendered ones often reminded me of low quality FMVs from command and conquer, or old youtube videos from 2006 at times. That bad. Did they render them at 240p or something? Don't know, don't care. Anyways, fun game that I enjoyed my time with, but it's probably not worth buying. Unless you like the 1960s and aliens, but there are tons of games that do that better. I mean, even the other XCOM games do the actual XCOM strategy stuff better. If not for the squad commands, this probably couldn't even be called XCOM. That's really how shoddy and barebones the ties to XCOM are. Don't buy for more than $2, basically. And don't buy DLC for 10 year old games. If you want my advice, just pirate old games like this, you should save the money for food.

Mon test version PC Plutôt déçu car des le début on a un problème qui apparaît impossible de mettre le jeu en 1920 sur 1080 obliger de jouer en 4K ou une dimension inférieure au HD se qui donne pas envie de jouer si vous avez un double écran et que vous décidez de regarder du YouTube en même temps vous ne pouvez pas y jouer en plein écran En gros je n'ai pas pu jouer du tout sur PC Après un essaie sur Steam Deck, le jeu est bien l'histoire est pas mal ce n'est pas une oeuvre d'art mais ce n'est pas claquer au sol non plus Malgré quelque lag quand sa brasse trop (en gros quand y a trop d'ennemies et que sa tir de partout) le gameplay est plutôt plaisant mais selon moi il aurai été mieux que le jeu soit en vue FPS car c'est un peu un call of duty. Je recommande pour les possesseur de steam deck pour pas chère évidement

This game is Freedom Fighters 2 with aliens and it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ genius! They've managed to seamlessly integrate classic XCOM gameplay into a real time setting. Very underrated!