XCOM Strategy Game Review - Is This a Strategy Game?

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"It is a tactical action game where instead of the randomness and of like percentage to hit, right? Like I'm going to hit this guy maybe or maybe not because he's buying cover." "What is great from the beginning is that the combat, the fights are short. You only control three heroes, and unlike XCOM, which battles can be pretty drawn out,. but with all of the missing that you're going to do all the time," she says.

Marvel's Midnight Suns is a tactics game from XCOM developer Firaxis, only instead of shooting aliens a hundred times from behind cover, you play cards to beat ass with your best friend, Blade. This is, objectively, a very good idea, but how well does the rest of the game hold up? Also, what's on our backlog as we approach the GOTY proceedings?

Also discussed: Dave the Diver, Pentiment, What the Bat, Binding of Isaac, Andor, Soccer Story, Peglin, Tiny Rogues

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