Review: XCOM: Chimera Squad

After the gushing review I gave XCOM 2, you will not be surprised that I had high expectations of this game. It was... not what I expected.

In short, the game is easier, cartoony, and has a completely different theme. Instead of the ever present alien menace, we now instead have aliens who had integrated into Earth society, and human extremists threatening the planet. Your force will include humans and aliens, with their special abilities that you experienced during previous games. None of them are customisable. 

The mechanics are also greatly simplified, but you still have inventory management, skills etc. 

Now, I could have raged at the corruption of the XCOM ideal and quit. Instead, I chose to play. I still liked it. Embrace the goofy dialogue and humor.

And in the end, I triumphed.