Pretty good but gets old after awhile
posted by tonyc4444 (TAMPA, FL) Jan 28, 2013
Member since Aug 2012
First of all, just throwing this out there, this is NOT a Real Time Strategy game like a lot of users keep saying it is. It is a Turn Based Strategy game. Like Civilization with a very different theme.
It's a cool game, and was a lot of fun to play through. I didn't have any of the problems other people have complained about. I played through it once on easy, probably took me about 10 to 15 hours or so and enjoyed myself. I thought the graphics were fine for the type of game it is, the controls were fine, not difficult at all to pick up and use. The game was challenging at points which was fine.
I only have one Gripe. The panic state is ridiculous. Not so much that the soldiers go into a panic and you can't use them next turn, that's fine, cool even, it's the fact that they panic and then shoot their own squad mates. That is RIDICULOUS. I'm sitting there in the alien base that you have to infiltrate, difficult level as it is, one guy gets shot and killed, so another guy freaks out and shoots one of my other guys and kills him, causing another guy to panic and shoot that dude. I went from having 6 people to having 2 people in about 5 seconds and I'm pretty sure I cussed out Firaxis in that moment as I turned the stupid thing off for about an hour.
Other than that, the game was fine. Not exemplary, or life altering in any way, honestly I think it has a low replay value, but it was fun and good for a rent.
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