These vehicles are very versatile and perform many functions to your team. So far we’ve seen the Scarab, an ATV with a mounted Missile turret and the Armadillo, an Armored APC with a mounted assault cannon. So the closer you get the higher your hit chance will be, unlike the dice roll system in the first XCOM where you can literally miss a point-blank shot.Īnother great addition that I’m really looking forward to (Thanks to that stretch goal) are the driveable vehicles. Shots inside the outer circle have a 100% hit rate while shots inside the inner circle will have a 50% hit rate. This allows you to fine tune your aim, targeting the limb or the enemy’s head. In Phoenix Point attacks are calculated a bit differently than XCOM, reducing the chances of you missing with a 95% chance to hit, hallelujah! During your turn you can take over a unit and manually aim their gun at an enemy unit from a first-person perspective. However, there are some key difference that make Phoenix Point potentially a more unique or even, a more enjoyable experience than XCOM. The game is still turn-based, every action has its own cost, cover is still a thing, you can still use Overwatch, the enemy phase is still called “Alien Activity”, and you shoot to kill enemies. Phoenix Point’s combat is nearly identical to Firaxis’s XCOM, so those who are familiar with the XCOM games (XCOM Enemy Within and XCOM 2) will feel right at home with this title. Whether the Phoenix Project fails or succeeds in its quest to save the human race is up to you… Gameplay The Phoenix Project is an international and secretive organization (just like the Men in Black), that exists to counteract these kinds of threats should it ever befall humanity. Players begin the game as a leader of one of many Phoenix Project cells, gathering some of the world’s best scientists, engineers and soldiers. The Lovecraftian alien monsters created by the extraterrestrial virus now named Pandoravirus, have devastated and destroyed the majority of human civilization worldwide, reducing them to small groups of people or independent havens, and human sanctuaries that are spread thinly across the globe.

The game begins in 2047, some 25 years after these events unfold.

Set in the near future of 2022, the permafrost around the Arctic and the Antarctic regions of Earth has begun to melt, and in it is released an ancient extraterrestrial virus that starts to mutate anything that comes into contact with it, affecting all of the lifeforms on Earth.

Platforms: PC via Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

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