Even readable collectibles- radios, notes, books- are present, but are mostly pointless, and the game doesn’t reward you at all for reading them.
A couple of levels really nail the 1960s B-movie drama vibe, but a lot of the game is clearly made up of filler dialogue. While the writing is decent, but it’s very inconsistent. The lines they have to say aren’t great either. Later, a random doctor at a test laboratory, who looks like he’s barely out of his teens, sounds like Gandalf. It’s that the voice actors are almost all decades older than their characters seem. William Carter looks like he’s about thirty two his voice actor is clearly sixty. Luckily, later in the game, you get your own.įor one, the voice acting is just… what. It’s not that the actors say the lines is wrong, or that they miss the pitch. Those floating drones are a tactical pain- they provide enemies with shields, and levitate your guys to expose them. For an idea of the general gameplay flavour, The Bureau XCOM Declassified is somewhere between Brothers In Arms, Mafia II, and Mass Effect. It’s a third person action adventure affair, with a dose of strategy and role-playing. Players takes the role of CIA Agent William Carter, a particularly capable fellow who, after a peculiar experience with an alien being in the games opening, is recruited into XCOM, the new ‘Merican secret body created to repel the impending alien invasion. The Bureau XCOM Declassified follows a first contact experience with alien forces common to the XCOM series example Greys, tall Outsiders, mech-style “Sectopods,” who turn their alien sights upon Planet Earth for reasons unknown. Problems which may have crippled it’s critical reception. It even takes the classic aliens and universe of XCOM and gives them an effective facelift.īut the game’s first half shows the roots of problems which pervade the entire experience. The story takes some surprising, innovative twists which are more “meta” than anything Mass Effect ever tries, albeit through the similar mechanics. They are tense, chaotic, challenging affairs which rival those of Halo’s best battles on Legendary difficulty.
The Bureau XCOM Declassified’s final act is almost triumphant.
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