A new XCOM game called Chimera Squad releases in ten days
Chimera Squad will be an all-new standalone game set five years after XCOM 2, and will be available as a digital-only Steam release on April 24. For its first week of sale you can get it for only $9.99 (£8.50) as part of a big XCOM celebration, but from May 1 it goes up to its usual retail price of $19.99 (£16.99).
Played the first two missions. It appears to be more of the same (that's a good thing) with a few interesting additions to keep the game a bit more fresh / less predictable. Breaches seem like a cool way to not know where your squad will end up when you begin an encounter. Gone is team-based I go / you go replaced with individual impulses. This alone changes quite a bit of strategy as it is much more difficult to chop down the largest tree before it has a chance to take a swipe at you.
This is also the first in the series that I've played on PC -- mainly because got X1 for free from XBL and I picked up definitive edition of X2 for $10 during an Amazon Xmas sale. Thankfully, the PC version has great controller support. The game plays just like a console would when I have my XB360 controller connected. BUT, I must say the graphics are *WAY* better than X2 was on Xbox. I'm able to maintain 60FPS in most circumstances on high quality.
Sadly, Steam Stream doesn't seem to support full controller play so I'm stuck playing on my PC monitor rather than my nice TV connected to a decent sound system. Apparently, if I connect my controller to the PC rendering the game and not the computer that is streaming, full controller support works great as long as you're in range of the source PC.
Overall, I'd say that it's a definite buy at $10 for anyone that likes turn-based tactical combat.