![]() ![]() Once the team grows, every combination of three you deploy prompts tactical adjustments. Movesets expand as you allocate skill points from a shared pool and equip magic cards that bestow further abilities and passive traits. Eddie’s skills can wound multiple targets, for instance, while Ingrid gets a bonus action each time she finishes one off with a thump. Their talents dovetail effectively against the troops and monsters of a nefarious organisation known as the Banished Court. In the parlance of the game’s 1930s America setting, Ingrid might be described as a ‘tough broad’ who lets her fists do the talking, while Lateef, self-nicknamed the Gentleman Djinn, is a sneaky thief who keeps a pistol handy, and Eddie a burly WWI veteran who blazes dual revolvers. Ingrid, Lateef and Eddie are the first three introduced, strangers until a mysterious character known as Locke pays them handsomely for a package retrieval job. ![]() And smartly, while we get to know them a little between missions, where brief hideout chats fill in their backstories, their personalities shine through most of all when they express themselves in turn-based battle. Tactical clash against the Banished Court. The shady characters you recruit into your crew differ from one other radically enough that each new addition feels like a reward, and the threat of permanent loss a genuine worry. Harebrained Schemes quickly manages to distance its latest from its XCOM inspirations with a dose of individualism. Technical shortcomings prove quite irritating – not only raw performance issues such as a juddering framerate, but wonky AI that, for instance, sees enemies run when they should shoot – sometimes into damaging hazards ![]()
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