Star Wars Zero Company Reviews
Star Wars Zero Company is by and large a great turn-based strategy game, featuring a neat cast of characters and deep, compelling tactical missions. It's complex but not complicated, with several layers to the action that never overwhelm. On PS5, it's only really let down by poor technical performance, with visual snags and unfortunate bugs interrupting the fun. There's a great game here, and it is worth playing despite its flaws, but it'll come even more highly recommended if and when they're resolved.
Star Wars Zero Company is a strong real-time tactics title, set in the Star Wars universe. With deep tactical combat, a base system giving you upgradable elements and allowing you to interact with your team, there's a reasonable amount to see in what is a focused entry and, arguably, one of the better Star Wars titles to have been released in recent years.
Star Wars Zero Company is one of those rare examples where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The solidity of its turn-based tactical combat blends seamlessly with the team members' progression mechanics, the team management aspect, and all the different narratives it weaves-from the overarching plot to the small personal stories. Each system, taken individually, is more than good, but it's the way they influence one another (mirroring the relationships between the game's characters) that elevates the experience and makes every battle (or every decision) feel like the most important one yet.
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Star Wars Zero Company is the overlapping center of a venn diagram with Star Wars in one circle, and XCOM-style tactical combat in the other. It doesn’t take either one in bold, new directions, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. This is not XCOM in a Star Wars costume, because the mechanics, setting, and narrative are more than surface level. Star Wars Zero Company is a substantial addition to both the Clone Wars canon and the tactical strategy genre.
Zero Company is an easy game to recommend to people looking for a fun tactical game and a worthy Star Wars adventure with a new, memorable crew.
Yes, perhaps Zero Company is a tactical game that exhausts itself in the span of a single campaign, and those seeking an endless game would do well to know this before embarking on that distant galaxy. But for those hours, it's hard to find anything better around.
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For a tactical game, the presentation and writing are polished and surprising, so much so that we would have loved to learn more about Zero Company and its mostly intriguing characters.
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You can feel the XCOM DNA in Bit Reactor's debut title, Star Wars Zero Company, but its cast of rogues is the special sauce that helps it shine, despite a somewhat lackluster story and unfortunate performance issues.
Star Wars: Zero Company brings the best of Star Wars to the XCOM style of gameplay. References abound for any Star Wars fan, no matter your favorite era of the Galaxy Far, Far, Away. It’s such a unique angle to tell another story of The Clone Wars from the perspective of contact workers from different backgrounds. Clones, Umbarans, former CIS advisers, Republic royalty, and lots and lots of mercenaries. Star Wars: Zero Company looks great, plays great, and keeps you on your toes (no matter how many you might have).
Star Wars Zero Company is an excellent tactics game, with strong core mechanics and plenty of customization on offer. Set near the end of the Clone Wars, its story is exciting, and the cast of characters feels complex and real.
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Star Wars: Zero Company is a cinematic tactics extravaganza of Star Wars storytelling and strategy. A memorable and diverse cast of dysfunctional characters at the margins of the galaxy carries you through an adventure of stellar scripted and emergent moments, a sandbox of compelling tactical decisions and an assured debut of a videogame from Bit Reactor that scratched my tactical itch with the strength of a superlaser.
Star Wars Zero Company is a stellar tactical run of a Clone Wars story that needs to be told. While it doesn’t throw too much of the popular lore in, Zero Company handles its own narrative just as thoroughly as if the Jedi were predominant. With the XCOM formula there and expanded upon in the Galaxy Far, Far, Away, Star Wars Zero Company is a must-play for any turn-based strategy RPG fan and Star Wars junkie to get their kicks in before the next threequel comes.
Star Wars: Zero Company from developers Bit Reactor and LucasFilm Games is a tactical masterpiece. It’s fun, it’s easy to learn, it’s immersed in good Star Wars lore, and it’s an incredibly deep tactical experience.
Star Wars fans will find plenty to like, but Zero Company is built from the ground up for XCOM fans, offering plenty of new options and a satisfyingly addictive gameplay loop.
Star Wars Zero Company is an incredible debut title from Bit Reactor. A tightly paced 30 hour tactics game with some of the best Star Wars storytelling in recent years. Star Wars and tactics fans alike would be remiss to not check out Zero Company.
A rocket that takes off vibrantly, and then coasts a little too early.
Star Wars Zero Company is strong as a strategy game and as a Star Wars story, but truly shines through its high customization and replayability.
Star Wars: Zero Company is a linear, story-driven experience of about 40 hours, with solid mechanics that result in satisfying gameplay, but it is marred by annoying technical issues as well as an inconsistent pace and difficulty level. If you’re looking for a turn-based Mass Effect 2 and you love Star Wars, then Zero Company is probably for you, but it’s not really the sort of game you’ll be playing for years on end like XCOM 2.
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