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WISHLIST XENONAUTS 2. . About the Game. Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat. A detailed strategic layer allows you to co-ordinate the defence of the planet, using your interceptors to shoot down UFOs and researching captured artefacts to learn about your foes and unlock new combat equipment to use on your missions. Xenonauts is a spiritual successor to the classic X-Com strategy games from the 1990s. We aim to improve the graphics, add new content and streamline the interface whilst still retaining all of the key mechanics of the original games. Devoted fans should love this game, but we're also keen to introduce the joys of old-school grand strategy to a whole new generation of players who might not otherwise experience it! Please note that the native Mac / Linux versions of the game are still in beta, however older WINE-wrapped "ports" are available and known to be stable whilst development of the native ports is still ongoing.Key Features
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This is a solid strategic game
This is a solid strategic game. Sure, it doesn't have the eye-popping 3D graphics of the current XCom games, but what it's lacking there it more than makes up for in challenging gameplay. And by challenging, I don't mean aliens picking you apart while you hide in full cover and wonder what the point was. The aliens here will find ways to flank you with the same type units that at other times often would hole up defensively instead. Sometimes it takes carefully placed explosives / flashbangs / stun gas into an area just to give you a leg up vs. them. It is also a difficult game to master in terms of having a good gameplan finance-wise. Will you spend a pile of your initial funding on science research to get a better technological balance vs. your foe, or will build extra hangars to combat the increasing ufo assault? How much of that funding will go to engineers to help you build better weapons & vehicles quickly enough to be of real use, and how much of it will you spend on soldiers to have enough to stop terror missions while still defending your own base? Or I should say, 'bases', because one will not be enough, as the threat is ongoing and everywhere. It's a fine line to walk (and I'm just talking about normal difficulty here). So if you get distracted easily, or you're looking for a lot of gloss and entertaining Wow - factor, this game might not be for you. If you're into a game that'll hand you your arse the first few times you play it and demand that you improve your strategy, well then you've come to the right place. :)
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay4.0
- Story3.5
- Value4.5
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