By who? My racially diverse squadron of awesomeness. You know who’s having their lunch taken from them? The bad guys. With this contract in hand, Godmother, Terminal, Cherub, and our poster boy, Verge, are going to be eating well. The case is open, and taking down Gray Phoenix is my life now. So 31PD hands jurisdiction over to Chimera Squad. City 31 Police are too blunt of an instrument to pull off this kind of a sting. Those perpetrators raised a red flag the moment they started selling plasma weapons on the not-so-gray market. I began one chapter with an investigation into a high-tech faction called Gray Phoenix. Take your military specialists, make surgical incisions into your target’s nefarious intentions, and mess up their whole day.
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And while the 10,000-foot view covers a smaller patch of earth, it’s still a logistical balancing act of: hiring and training soldiers, researching and developing technologies, and implementing winning strategies across the city’s nine districts.įrom The Fringe to Renova Heights, from The Stacks to Angler’s Point, your job is to lay down XCOM’s particular brand of law and order. The up-close tactical game, the turn-based strategy part that is signature XCOM at this point, is as good as ever. This certainly takes several in-game days, potentially several weeks. You lay groundwork, knock out tangential operations, and then go in for a final takedown. Each chapter lasers in on a particular criminal faction found in City 31. There’s an investigative element to the game’s three major chapters, at least in the narrative, not the gameplay, necessarily. Breach Mode never gets old, and a lot of missions call for more than one instance of Breach Mode to happen. 44-or assault rifle, shotgun, submachine gun, or what have you. You set up who’s first, second, third, and fourth, shuffling the order depending on randomly shifting circumstances behind those doors, and yell, “Breach, breach, breach,” as you kick in the door, waving the. Instead you’re stacking up at a point of entry and going in weapons hot. You aren’t painstakingly setting up ambushes (that always seem to fail). Were you a bad enough dude to rescue the mayor? It appears the answer was yes, but then no.Ĭhimera Squad, in its own way, exercises less subtlety than regular XCOM squads. But our motley crew is congratulated when the operation goes well, but then implicated when the post-op goes sideways. Your four-person squad is dispatched to assist the City 31 Police Department in rescuing the mayor. City 31 is trying to build itself up while not tearing itself apart at the same time. While diversity is better and stronger, it’s no cakewalk. You know, Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors of ice cream? One of City 31’s big talking points-along with the titular Chimera Squad-is that its population is diverse.
Instead, I think it’s a tribute to Baskin-Robbins. Prime numbers are hot in the video gaming space, I’m sure. This could be some misnumbered homage to Half-Life’s City 17. All of it makes for a good season’s worth of spinoff material. There isn’t a “3” attached to the end of the name, but Chimera Squad is 100 percent XCOM. Instead I’d typed Veribus (with that first “e”), which translated altogether as “Different Sputters.” I’d laughed, but I’d gone with it, knowing I’d have a little rust to shake off since XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. When I’d typed Chimera Squad’s Latin motto, “Diversis Viribus,” into Google Translate, I’d misspelled Viribus.
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