…but it won’t be an AAA title. It’s going to be surprisingly cheap!

2K Games (=Take-Two) and Firaxis Games announced, a new, turn-based tactical combat game, which will launch in just a few days on PC on Steam!

„We’re inspired by our passionate community and excited by the opportunity to create a dynamic, innovative, and unique XCOM experience for both fans of our games and new players in XCOM: Chimera Squad,” said Firaxis Games president Steve Martin.„With XCOM: Chimera Squad, we felt there were exciting gameplay opportunities yet to be discovered within the XCOM universe. Gameplay like Breach Mode, interleaved turn order, and the introduction of agents as fully fleshed-out characters will revolutionize how the game plays while still retaining the combat experience that makes the XCOM series so loved by gaming communities around the world,” Firaxis Games lead designer Mark Nauta added.

„After years of alien rule, humanity won the war for Earth. But when the Overlords fled the planet, they left their former soldiers behind. Now, five years after the events of XCOM 2, humans and aliens are working together to forge a civilization of cooperation and coexistence.

Welcome to City 31, a model of peace in a post-invasion world. However, not all of Earth’s inhabitants support interspecies alliance. Chimera Squad, an elite force of human and alien agents, must work together to destroy the underground threats driving the city toward chaos.

Your agents are unique: each of them equipped with special tactical abilities and driven by a different motivation for joining Chimera Squad. Deploy targeted team members to investigate and combat the dangers that pervade the districts of City 31. Lead Chimera Squad through a new experience that innovates on XCOM‘s turn-based legacy, utilizing strategy, teamwork, and new breach-and-clear gameplay to complete your mission objectives.

[…] Each of the 11 agents has their own distinct personality and tactical abilities, including species-specific attacks like the Viper’s tongue pull. Execute devastating combos by teaming the right agents and utilizing cooperative actions. The difference between mission success and failure can depend wholly on team composition. Missions are structured as a series of discrete, explosive encounters, keeping the action intense and unpredictable. Shape the battlefield to your advantage with a new combat phase that injects your squad right into the action.

Strategically assign your agents to different entry points and coordinate their assault with a range of Breach-specific skills. An automatic initiative system slots individual agents and enemies into an alternating turn order, creating new strategic possibilities based on what unit is queued to act next—and what unit is at the greatest risk when they do.

Outside of combat, manage the operations of a high-tech HQ, where you must prioritize competing tasks, investigations, and agent assignments in the face of a ticking clock: the constantly rising unrest in the city’s various districts, driving City 31 closer and closer to total anarchy,” the game’s Steam page reads.

XCOM: Chimera Squad launches on April 24, and its initial price is just ten dollars! What a surprise! (Later, it will cost 20. Get the game before May 1.) We might take a look at it, but before it, we might roll out on two wheels (and then promptly crash) in MotoGP 20.

Source: Gematsu

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