GameSpot Reviews – The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

NO NO NO. Look at any video of mass effect gameplay and you'll see that no one is using strategy and tactics; most people who play mass effect play it like a regular third person shooter. This game is a genuine tactics game with shooting elements. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP you dont know what you're talking about you moron. Go play your generic battlefield crap.

Well, I enjoyed it a lot.

Why have  review with spoilers? 

Just finished it. Only 7 hours and a half. The game is on the right track of making a decent XCOM shooter, but the prodution is totally off. Limited skills, one dimensional characters, non cohesive story reveals it is nothing but a rushed and clunky product.

Love the art style, but while I would happily buy a game was a flawed, noble attempt, – when then have not even gotten their own lore right, there is no point in playing.  XCOM isn't just about the tactical options & risks.  Its about the unfolding plot.  To say this game isn't finished is an understatement.  They got hollow, flawed gameplay without a workable story.  Not even going to buy it for $15 on steam right now.

Am I the only one who never uses my "mind control" abilities in any game? They're either too much mana/energy to use, next to useless, or overshadowed by other skills.

The art style was better when this was fps but I do love the fact that this is 3rd person game

Well, I actually enjoyed it. I liked the combat, and never found the AI to be two annoying if I gave them a target and a firing position, and I played the game on the hardest setting, being a veteran of both EU and many, many third person shooters. My main complaints would be the graphics, which seemed pretty at first but degraded significantly when I wasn't shooting at aliens. The clip on the front of pilots flight suit… Eugh. The skybox in the first defend section, after the the base escape,  was almost heretically bad for 2013. Yeah I know what that word means. It was that bad. Also, I agree that there was no tension regarding loosing squad members. Checkpoint restart fixed everything, though I found that some loadouts were just better than others. I went with a support and recon, and mainly used them to back me up, instead of as a force of their own. But hey, you probably din't come here to read my long, rambling review. But I thought the game deserved probably a 7 or 8. It got a lot of hate for not being EU, in my opinion.

I got that game but my computer runs it slow 🙁

I got this game for £2 last year in the Steam Sales knowing that it was above average. I got it because I bought the main X-COM game and liked the idea of this spin off prequel set in the 60's. The combat is great and spot on and you do have to manage your squad mates to get best results but it's not that bad, it's not that great either but I am enjoying it all the same.

I waited to play this alongside the real X-COM game and it was a nice diversion  in between and  well worth £2 if you like the idea of taking on aliens in 60's America. The NVIDIA PhysX are also a nice touch that helps presentation.

So worth £2 if you are into the story of alien invasion but if you don't really care about the story then it's not worth it as there is lots of 9 out of 10 games for £2 in the Steam Sales so most people are always going to pick the high scoring games in Steam sales

I enjoyed the game. I liked the combat, and never found the AI to be annoying or walking into mines or gunfire. They got behind cover and stayed there for the better part of the battle. The graphics are pretty damn good, with the models and just about everything striking the 1960s Cold War feel very well, especially the aliens. There were reports of alien abductions around the 60s and the aliens look pretty much identical to what the victim described. The main issue I have with the game though is the lack of dialog. Once I chose all the conversation pieces on the right stick wheel, I didn't really know what to do, especially if I felt enough information wasn't gathered about my current/next mission. No tension or anything about the squad members bleeding out, as it did not happen to me once. Though it is a nice feel that they become canon once they've bled to death. Checkpoint restart fixed everything when I struggled, which only really happened about three times when I was invading the Outsider homeworld. After I finished the game, I sort of felt like I actually accomplished something. Is that sad? Maybe. Sorry for my long ass review, but I just thought I'd add my two cents. Personally, I think the game didn't deserve the mixed reviews it got. Some publications gave it 4.5/10 and others gave it 7/10. Me, I give it about an 8.1/10. Not sure why the game got so much hate when it was actually really enjoyable.

You shouldn’t base it off of another game you should review the game for what it is not for what it doesn’t have from its past series.

I've played my self, and everything you do matters, that's how I lost sanders fanders.

I bought this for £1 the other day , I'm on the last mission and by the looks of it I'm the only person who likes it lol I think it's a good game especially for £1 lol

Currently $3.99 on XBLA in the 2K games publisher sale!!

Did anyone else use Fox Mulder and Dana Skully?