Forgotten but Unbroken

I love history and WWII setting. This game has good immersion and atmosphere. Visualy it works character models work base works. Under the hood though it fails. It is as if they insisted not to make a X-Com clone and everything they did to make sure they are not another X-Com is what frustrates me. I am not sure what is a spoiler and what is not so I will just say two perks that break the game, Lucky bastard and Backstabber. First one is too powerfull second one does not work how one would expect... it should not be possible to trigger by someone a character is aware off... There are more examples that frustrate me in game but these made the cut for a review. There are no major bugs just some minor annoyances. I am half way into the war (1943) and not sure I will be able to will myself into completing it. I really wanted to like this :(

It's mediocre at best. I really, really tried to give this game a fair shake and have some fun, but this game fights that at every turn. It doesn't have a great story - what story exists is delivered in campy cutscenes spread throughout the game, and I couldn't tell you what the plot was because it was so poorly told. It doesn't have great gameplay - the class system is largely unbalanced by one class (snipers), and with how grindy the game can be you really need the overpowered class to get past the tedium. Devs don't seem to be interested at all in constructive feedback, so no hope there either. (not surprising for 2 years since release) There is a weapon familiarity system that is supposed to improve the effectiveness of a weapon you use often, but it increases very slowly, and if you start using a new weapon you lose familiarity with other weapons. Hope you like using one weapon the whole game, because by the time you get some new interesting toys you are out of luck - you'll have to grind weapon familiarity up, and suffer without it in the mean time. This wouldn't be as big of a deal if weapon familiarity wasn't so bonkers - high stats can cut weapon AP cost to fire in *hal…

Brilliant idea for a game, but somehow too much attention was paid on including features and not enough on making them fun. By about 50% through the campaign I was basically doing nothing much apart from waiting (who thought having months with nothing to do would be fun? might be realistic, but its not fun!) and I even just skipped missions in the last couple of years. The whole strategy layer is just really dull - where is our agency? why can't I plan how I disrupt the Nazis? a proper flow of partisan warfare is really essential to bring this to life. Lots of other problems...balance is all over the place. Stealth is massively overpowered, but essential in some missions. Weapons make little sense in gameplay terms. Snipers totally dominate over all. Medic is pointless, never took him. Familiarity with weapons is a pointless mechanic and removes the fun of finding new weapons. If you hate RNG what about making you miss 100% shots due to enemy traits...Many things just seem added on to correct a bad gameplay element, but then break something else. Still, it remains a wonderful idea for a game and I hope they (or someone else) tries again. Postive review for the future...

This one is a bit of a mixed bag. The combat is pretty good, but everything else ranges from "meh" to "ugh". Starting with the positive, the tactical combat is pretty good, with action points and a half/full cover system. Enemies aren't brilliant but it does seem like they're trying to kill you. Each mission starts in stealth, allowing you the opportunity to sneak around and eliminate bad guys, but you can't move their bodies, so you have to be very careful about your targets. It makes for a fun little puzzle. Early on you have to move through a narrow cone behind the enemy to avoid detection, later on you can wear a disguise and walk right up to them. The tactical UI is basic but functional. Your units have a deep desire to jump through windows without opening them first while in stealth mode, and there is no warning that you're about to wake up the camp, which caused me to reload a few times. Some keyboard shortcuts don't make sense, e.g. 'R' reloads (yay), but at the loadout screen, Ctrl+F reloads while Ctrl+R starts the mission. My XCOM-trained fingers like to hit '1' for a standard ranged attack, but here '1' means "end this units turn" and they don't let you undo it. …

- story is horrible - voice acting is horrible (in cutscenes) - dialogs are horrbile - some bugs - i got all the weapons in the world but no... knives, something is wrong with that - flawed, but i had fun

The UI is beyond confusing: Trying to access your inventory outside of mission prep? Good luck Trying to split item stacks? That's complicated, and doesn't work on some items The animations are stiff and pretty bad