However, I can't find any major flaws in SteamWorld Heist. The music is awesome, with tracks by Steam Powered Giraffe featured in the game's bars.Īround this point in the review, I'd get all up in arms about whatever flaws were just too hard to ignore.
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The same cartoony art style is in full effect, and the bots and their foes animate fluidly. The presentation of SteamWorld Heist is just as good as SteamWorld Dig.
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On top of that, there's a new game plus mode after the game is over. On top of that, most levels are procedurally generated every time you play. There's somewhere on the order of about 60 missions, and several different difficulty levels you can switch between at will.
The campaign in SteamWorld Heist takes a good chunk of time to complete. Sure, the other two groups of loot actually improve your character's stats, but who can say no to owning Cloud's hair from Final Fantasy 7, or Professor Layton's hat? There's a wide array of each in the game, especially hats. Loot can take the form of new weapons, new accessory items, or shiny new hats. Despite the fact that they're all grouped into broad classes, each 'bot gets unique bonuses at level up that make them distinctive.Ĭlearing missions awards loot, "gallons" (water is the game's currency), and XP for the 'bots that participated in the mission. Some specialize in melee or close quarters combat, others prefer sniper rifles or heavy weapons. In the end, it's up to our heroes to save all steambot kind from certain destruction.Įach crewmember in SteamWorld Heist is a unique character with different skills and weapon preferences. As they butt heads with each faction, they uncover threads of more sinister goings-on in their neck of space. A band of well-intentioned "cowbots" finds themselves at odds with both the government and the pirates that rule the space near what is left of Earth. The plot in SteamWorld Heist is very Firefly-esque. This leads to some crazy awesome moments where you can tear up enemies who think they're well defended with epic trick shots off of walls and cover. Sharpshooter weapons even have a long-range laser sight that shows where your shot will hit and how it will bounce. While there are exceptions (rocket launchers, for example), most bullets can be ricocheted off of walls. In some ways, combat in SteamWorld: Heist feels a bit like playing Worms. However, you're responsible for lining up the shot and when to pull the trigger. There's a little bit of "sway" in the aiming, much like when firing a sniper rifle in a first person shooter. In SteamWorld Heist, you manually aim your bots' shots. Whether or not your soldier lands their shot is just a roll of the dice.
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In a game like XCOM, you can be standing right next to an enemy and you might only have a 80% chance to hit. The other really major difference is that combat is more skill based and less luck based. If you were just checking out a screenshot, you might even think it was some sort of robot battle platformer, but it's completely not that at all. Unlike those games, though, Heist takes place from a 2D perspective. In terms of combat mechanics, it reminds me a lot of games like XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Wasteland 2. SteamWorld Heist is best described as a tactical, turn-based strategy game. Coming up next on Without the Sarcasm is my SteamWorld Heist review!
That's setting the bar high - does Heist clear it? Now that I've spent a couple dozen hours with Heist, I'm ready to pass judgement. Heist feels more like a combination of XCOM, Worms, and Firefly. I played (and thoroughly enjoyed) SteamWorld Dig, so I figured it was worth checking out Heist to see if Image & Form could do as good a job with Heist as they did with Dig.
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SteamWorld Heist is the most recent game in the SteamWorld series from Image & Form games, a Swedish indie studio. SteamWorld Heist Review: Grand Theft Bot-o
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