The story has you creating your main character and putting together a squad of mercenaries in order to liberate the fictional country of Arulco. The following games are listed in order of release, not quality or preference. If what we’ve mentioned above, sounds awfully familiar, that’s because there’s nothing much the modern games could do to improve on the classic recipe without taking away what made it special. Through the use of nine different terrain types, the time of day or night affecting your troops’ line of sight and a semi-randomly generated map, the levels never fall short in providing tactical diversity and keep feeling fresh, hours into the game. The Battlescape is a top-down isometric view of the battlefield where you control a squad and attempt to kill or capture all enemy forces. Here you can command and equip your aircraft, request resources and base crew, plan research, create weapons, build squads and send them on missions. The Geoscape is a zoomed out planet view, where you can look in on the Earth while managing resources and planning your next move.
During the game, you’ll switch between two different views.
