This distinction provides several tactical advantages, first you are able to shoot more than once, but it also allows you to move slower, revealing any dangers on the map and react to them faster, a very welcome improvement. In Xenonauts each unit has a pool of “Time Units”, and they can take as many actions as they want provided that they have enough Time Units. In XCOM each player’s turn is broken up into 2 actions, the player can move and then shoot. If you have played XCOM then this will feel a little bit familiar to you, but it is still different enough to make it unique. Once your team has been assembled and they are at the crash site the game will then switch to the combat mode where you get to control your squad of units. You can bring tanks into combat with you, or un-manned drones to help you fight any alien resistance at the crash site of the UFO. The ground team consists of your soldiers, vehicles and drones. If the UFO crashes over land then you will then need to send in your ground team to kill any survivors and recover alien technology. Once a UFO is detected you will be able to send between 1-3 planes to shoot it down. A base will need to have a radar station to be able to detect UFOs while they are flying, a barracks to have troops, a workshop and a lab to research and build. After you have some bases on the map you will need to manage their facilities. This is also where you will have to manage your finances, research and construction of all of the items at your disposal. The Geoscape is essentially a map of the Earth, where you will need to build bases to establish your defence network. Gameplay is broken up into two sections, the “Geoscape” and the “Combat View”. These reports not only contain important information about the items in question but also anecdotes about events or theories of the alien motivations. After a mission the player gives recovered items and prisoners to their science team, who will then give you a report of their findings. All of the story is told to the player through the research logs. The music and the artwork make everything feel very menacing and imminent, like you are always responding to a catastrophe and dreading what will be happening next. All of the technology that is at your disposal looks a little bit dated, by today’s standards. Xenonauts takes place in the late 70’s and early 80s and the style really fits. I will try to keep comparisons to the 2012 XCOM to a minimum however, sometimes they are unavoidable. You will be in charge of setting up a global defence network that will shoot down enemy ships then send in ground forces clean up the crash sites and respond to attacks against civilians. The Earth is being invaded by extraterrestrials and the player takes up the role as the commander of a task force whose sole mission is to fight back against this alien invasion. Members of the XCOM community didn’t like the idea of XCOM being a shooter so they went out to develop a game that they thought properly represented what they liked about XCOM. Xenonauts is a game that was developed as a response to the announcement of the shooter The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, but before the announcement of the 2012 XCOM by Firaxis. This is when I stumbled into a little gem called Xenonauts. I was so excited that I need to find something to play to get my XCOM fix until XCOM2 was released. Regardless, When XCOM2 was announced I was already caught, hook line and sinker. Although, that doesn’t actually work out in practice. My profile on steam says that I have played 35 hours of that game, and I went out and bought it again for iOS so that I could play it on my tablet, when I had a few minutes to spare.
I didn’t actually play the original XCOM games, but I did buy and play the 2012 Firaxis remake to death. I am pretty sure that I qualify as an XCOM fan. Quite possibly the best turn based alien defence strategy game in existence.
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