Ho acquistato questo gioco perchè appassionato di XCOM e tutti dicevano che era simile. Non lo trovo affatto simile a X-COM ma è stata comunque una piacevole sorpresa. Manca forse di scene e storia ma come tattico è davvero bello e fatto bene. Direi che per gli appassionati dei giochi tattici a turni è un must. Peccato non abbia la possibilità di replay dell'intera battaglia. Merita.

Its pretty awesome.

Phantom Brigade is a good game and I recommend it. Everything is executed well, with no obvious flaws. I'm playing on Linux and I encountered no bugs while playing the game whatsoever. It just runs out of the box.

Phantom Brigade presents an interesting twist on the TBT genre. The prediction mechanism makes things much more, well, predictable. One of the mainstays of TBT games is that you need to figure out what the opponent might be doing and devise a move that minimizes losses and advances your strategy. In Phantom Brigade this is exceedingly easy. You KNOW what's going to happen in the next few seconds, so you can plan accordingly. Therefore you can almost always plot an optimal path and firing solution for your units. Thus the fun shifts from divining the possible moves of the opponent to running countless simulations to find the best alternative. It's fun but there are very few surprises.

What about the rest? You are on a campaign of freeing your home country from, so far, faceless minions. Your mobile base, a small dot on the map, moves around as you free region after region. You move around the landscape, chosing to engage enemy troops or attack bases. Your allies, the Home Defense Force, are fighting, too, and sometimes you join them in battle. There are liitle to no strategic challenges on this level. Sometimes enemy units chase you and you have to decide where to give battle, mainly to control how much enemy reinforcement can arrive. There are only a few special weapons that need ammo, so the only thing you have to look out for is your armor, which is easy because of the prediction mechanic. You get random missions (make sure to open the task item, so that you can see which symbol on the map corresponds to the mission) and events, not unlike the Battletech game by Harebrained. After battle you salvage parts or manufacture new ones in your mobile HQ to equip your mechs with them. There is a simple resource management component, which, after 20 h, hasn't made any difference so far. Pilots do not have skills or a career or anything. They are just another component of your mechs that can fail and has a special damage category aimed at it. This is supposed to change with an upcoming update.

The graphics style is nice and clean, maybe a little too clean for a warzone, the animations are fine. The mechs are more like armored soldiers and less like tanks on legs. Even heavy frames look lithe. The sound FX are well-done and the score is, when I noticed it, some classical-inspired music. I would have liked something with a bit more punch to up the excitement but hey, I have a large collection of records.

So, good game, but I'm laying off this game for now and wait for the pilot careers update to give it a new swirl.

The number of times i have played a just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ *beautiful* turn and watched it a few times over is roughly equal to the number of times I have reloaded combat to try and do a mission just a bit better. Phenomenal game.

Can be played at any pace.
Hate when the original members slowly die from combat
Eventually the bios might auto-fill on the new pilots, but thats not a problem.
Would buy it again.

It's a great mech game.

Good.