Your base has different stations: A med-bay to heal your troops’ bodies and minds. They have classes and skills you can upgrade as they level up. You have a squad of soldiers and go on missions with a limited roster. The gameplay is quite obviously inspired by XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Phantom of the Opera vibes? No, I can’t it’s so well-composed! Just look at it! Aliens: Dark Descent’s Similarities to XCOM Though it did mean it was sometimes tough to gauge just how much of a challenge was coming my way. For the most part, that was not an issue. However, I often had difficulty telling some of the varieties apart. The new inclusions fit well into the lore and are justified in the setting. The Xenomorphs also look great, and there are multiple versions of them. They frame gloomy urban spaces being converted by the disgusting biological creep of the Xenomorphs perfectly. However, the cut scenes and the levels themselves look great. The graphics are serviceable but are certainly nothing worth writing home about. Graphically the human characters look…fine. In missions, however (at no fault of the actual voice actors), the voice work is less reliable and often did not fit well with what was happening (more on that in a bit). I could really feel Harper’s progressive breakdown in exhaustion and self-delusion as the story progressed, and Julianna Kurokawa, who voices Hayes, brought an out-of-her-depth competence to her portrayal that really sold the character. The voice work is also impressive, particularly the two main characters, Hayes and Harper. The music, too, is excellent and sets the menacing tone well. From the body horror squelches of chest bursters to the shrieks of their drones and warriors as they attack. All the classic Xenomorph sounds are well-represented. The most obvious place to start is the top-notch presentation, the sound design especially. Was it worth being metaphorically disemboweled? Let’s find out.Ī code for this game was provided by the developer for this review. Over the course of the last two weeks, opinions have been growing slowly in my chest, wrapping their insidious tendrils around my internal organs, just waiting to burst forth and skitter across the floor into a vent. It is available now for PC, PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One and Series X/S. Aliens: Dark Descent by Tindalos Interactive is a real-time squad-based strategy game in the vein of XCOM with a dash of Darkest Dungeons and Starcraft.
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