Xenonauts

Got this game because it reminded me of the early X-Com games. A lot of the game play and terms used are very similar. I found this to be very unbalanced and almost unfair as the aliens advance far faster than your troops do. Even on easy setting I found this to be the case. I tried the community Mod but that seemed to make it even worst because you get to the larger alien ships and the interior is completely black out and you can't make any progress. I thought it was because I started using the Mod with a save from a game that did not originally have it installed. I quit that game, deleted all previous saves and restarted the game just using the Community Mod but ran into exactly the same issue as before (all larger ships had the interior of the ship blacked out). I tried reloading saves, exiting the game and restarting from previous saves but nothing I did made any difference. I found the game to be a big disappointment and the only positive thing I can say is that the game was on sale at a very big discount but even that is not enough to make this worth trying.

Xenonauts is a turn based strategy game where you play as a multi-national organisation as you need to defend earth from an alien invasion using soldiers, boats and jets. Graphics- Not great Soundtrack- Not too good Audience- Adults Difficulty- Decent Story- Small story Game time- It's not to long Price- Its a bit too expensive 4/10

Studio Goldhawk Interactive zrobiło to, czego wielcy wydawcy bali się dotknąć: wzięło klasyczną formułę i bezkompromisowo ją doszlifowało. Jest rok 1979. Świat stoi na krawędzi konfliktu między USA a ZSRR, ale nagła inwazja obcej cywilizacji zmusza oba mocarstwa do potajemnej współpracy i sfinansowania międzynarodowej organizacji, tytułowych Xenonautów. Estetyka retro, rewelacyjne rysowane portrety w gazecie, chłodna kolorystyka i surowy interfejs sprawiają, że naprawdę czujesz się jak dowódca tajnego sztabu kryzysowego z okresu zimnej wojny, który dysponuje myśliwcami z przestarzałą bronią palną przeciwko laserom z kosmosu. Gra idzie w ślady klasyka i dzieli się na dwie, równie wciągające części: a) warstwa strategiczna (Geosfera): Rozbudowujesz bazy w różnych zakątkach globu, zarządzasz budżetem przyznawanym przez państwa fundujące, prowadzisz badania nad technologią obcych i produkujesz wyposażenie. Kapitalnie rozwiązano tu minigrę przechwytywania UFO – starcia powietrzne naszych myśliwców z obcymi wymagają taktycznego manewrowania, doganiania celów i używania odpowiednich rakiet. Moim zdaniem jest to najlepszy system walki myśliwców jaki wsytęouje we wszystkich gra X-Com pod…

Was great, right up until I started getting good enough to beat aliens in fair encounters and realised how many times I've lost men to unfair game mechanics. Over the course of two missions, I lost three soldiers to aliens shooting at me from corners that I couldn't see around. I'm not doing it justice with how unfair it is, I would recommend searching it online. Lots of players complained about the LoS bugs. It's not an intentional mechanic by any stretch of the imagination, the Devs themselves have admitted that. Apparently they took steps to fix it in Xenonauts 2 but from what I can tell X2 is still a long way away from being finished and polished up. TL;DR The game has glaring bugs that can and will get your soldiers killed for no good reason. It's fairly common and once you get good at the game you'll realise the game's still setting you up for failure with them. Edit: I just checked Xenonauts 2's reviews and guess what? Not only does it have a whole array of issues that can only be explained by the Devs not listening to any player feedback at all (instead of the game just being in its infancy stage) it has the EXACT SAME corner issue! The exact same!

A love letter to the fans of the original Microprose XCOM: UFO Defense.

Not sure how to feel about this game, obviously inspired from XCOM: UFO Defense (1994), but it feels like someone chucked in UFO: Alien Invasion in for some reason. It is still unforgiving, it improves the UI and graphics (not a high bar to clear tbh), it has made air combat actually exciting... it just feels like it is missing something. There is little things like the damage and hitting enemies feeling less impactful - you have no idea in UFOD (or OpenXcom if you prefer) if you just shot pixie dust or it will kill the enemy in one hit. What mattered is each shot is visually clear and meaningful when they hit. Many guns in this game are automatic fire with a spray of damage numbers or misses in a split second, it is losing the impact and importance behind every single action you take. These settings are adjustable in OpenXcom, you want fast then you get fast, if you want immersive then the camera pans and follows the shot - you are praying the whole time you haven't just lost your experienced captain. It appeals to many types of players through the customisation it offers. Your units are expendable in both games but each conditions you to emotionally react in very different ways…