From the 2D world map to the almost-sprite based isometric ground based combat, Xenonauts would fit right at home next to X-COM: UFO Defense.
The graphics are straight out of 1994 and they are great. As you move through the game you will be able to cover more area and push back more, eventually going on the offensive I admit to completely ignoring Australia as it is way out in the boonies and I seem more inclined to assist the rest of the world. The more territory I cover the faster I can respond to threats, the faster I can respond to threats the happier those nations will be, and the happier those nations are the more money and resources they give me. The reason behind it is because your starting base has a limit to how far your aircraft can go in defense of the nations placing my main base in Russia gave me the largest single income source and placing in the south eastern corner allowed me to cover a large chunk of the Soviet Union, Indochina, Europe, The Middle East, and Northern Africa. For instance, I started my initial game by placing myself in a south eastern corner of Russia. As with other global defense / simulation / strategy games, you will need to pick and choose the countries you defend on a risk vs reward basis. Some of the different aspects you will be in charge of will be, naturally, the ground combat that will accompany any downed UFO or invasion point, as well as managing the research and maintaining relations with the rest of the world. When you start up the game you are walked through a number of tutorial missions that I strongly recommend you take a moment to sit down and play Xenonauts is a brutal, yet spectacular strategy game and while the ground combat is generally the easier aspect of the game, the overall package is intense and running through the initial training sessions is strongly recommended. Settings and options are pretty simple and straightforward which is fine since the real objective is to simply get in game and smite some xeno's. The real question, though, is whether Xenonauts is worthy of being a spiritual descendant of those wonderful XCOM games.įrom the very moment you start up Xenonauts veteran strategy gamers will feel right at home the opening cinematic explains the story and shows, through military-style reports, that the Earth is being invaded and it is up to you, the commander of a multi-national military task force to protect the earth and drive off the alien invasion. Xenonauts is exactly what XCOM would be if the original games were released today.
It clearly knows that the XCOM games are a source of inspiration and every single aspect of Xenonauts is in some way an honorable nod to the longstanding classic tactical strategy games. Fortunately though, Xenonauts developed by Goldhawk Interactive, is not a clone or a riff-off of the XCOM games. It is fairly common for developers to go through and use the winning formula from other games with a little tweaking of their own unfortunately in most cases it comes off as simply an attempt to get rich off of someone else's ideas. Does it sound familiar? It should if you are a fan of the XCOM line of games since Xenonauts draws its inspiration heavily from Firaxis Games' excellent reboot as well as the original XCOM games. Xenonauts puts you in command of a multi-national military force that was created to defend a Cold War-era planet Earth against an alien invasion.
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