Phoenix Point - New X-Com Sucessor

Played a good few hours last night.

Started on the normal difficulty (Veteran), and did the tutorial and about 3 or 4 hours of play itself.

It's a solid turnbased XCOM type game, but everyone knew that anyway, the differences are, it's incredibly detailed in shots taken, actually it's so good it can be frustrating with some weapons.

For instance, i used a heavy class with a cannon to aim at an enemy, fired a single shot blast from the cannon through the enemy, killing it, and the shot continued to rip off the arm of another behind him, and continued again to blow up a gas tank behind the second enemy.. I actually swore at the monitor in excitement!

Shortly afterwards, i was using the freeaim ability, which is really fluid to the game with a sniper to headshot an enemy, i had maybe a hair which was not inside the inner reticle and managed to miss entirely, which was disappointing, and also made me swear at the monitor.

The difference between this and XCOM EU/EW/2 is that it takes itself a lot more seriously and has a massive amount of detail or attention to detail. Battles are slower and more punishing. The geoscape is cluttered with things to explore and lore to reveal, which by the way is very well written.

My major gripes with it are that music is dull and mostly uninteresting, and the voice acting on the soldiers is poor.. i can live with it, but it's mediocre at best. Would have liked to stick my mass effect voicepacks in but yeah.. not happening at this point.

Anyway, that aside, if you loved XCOM, you'll love this.

I'm reckoning it's an 80% or above, average on metacritic.
No doubt i'll be playing til christmas anyway.

Can't say I loved it. Just didn't hold my interest for whatever reason. Not a patch on X-Com.

Enjoying Wasteland 3 at the moment - scratching that turn based itch.