Phoenix Point Behemoth Edition Review (PlayStation 4)
Our Phoenix Point Behemoth Edition Review lets us fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome.
Phoenix Point Behemoth Edition Review Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 38.84GB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Works on Playstation 5.
- Strategy gameplay.
- Camera speed sliders.
- Comes with all DLC – living weapons, blood, and titanium, the legacy of the ancients, Festering skies, and corrupted horizons.
- Four difficulties – rookie, veteran, hero, and legend.
- Prologue and tutorial are optional.
- Use promotional skins – on/off.
- X – Com influence.
- Turn-based combat.
- When you get in an enemy’s sight you stop moving (doesn’t end your turn).
- The Health bar of enemies will glow White to indicate your chance of a hit and damage caused.
- You can set the animation speed.
- Free aiming allows you to zoom in and pick a particular body part again showing your chances and damage. Think Vats from Fallout.
- End your turn whenever.
- Swap between characters and enemies easily and quickly with the shoulder buttons.
- When moving a grid will show your move limit radius, your extended radius if you choose to use more action points and a shield icon to show how much cover you have.
- End of mission breakdown showing earned EXP, skill points, and performance.
- Can skip cutscenes.
- Action points determine what and how much you can do from moving to shooting to using equipment like healing.
- Vehicles can be used to transport your team but they can also have abilities or weapons granting them their own slot in the turn order.
- Save and load when you want.
- Recruit new team members by rescuing them.
- The right stick allows you to view buildings floor by floor.
- Destructible environments.
- Enemies and even items and members won’t show until you are close to them.
- Full overwatch system and you can choose the direction and size of the cone.
- Full 3D camera control.
- The terrain is vertical and horizontal.
- Loot crates can be found and opened.
- When in free aim, if there is no immediate enemy you can pan around in the first person.
- Enemies can flee.
- Fantastic locations.
- Feels faster and more streamlined over the X-com games.
- Play how you want.
- You have the align or piss off other organizations as you attempt to bring peace.
- Feels like a huge step forward for the genre.
- You can customize team member load-outs and who goes out on missions.
Phoenix Point Behemoth Edition Review Cons:
- Cannot rebind controls.
- No Invert axis option.
- Controls take some getting used to.
- The move grid thing can be hard to see on some levels.
- A lot of the tutorial stuff isn’t actually explained until you have played the first map despite it being kinda important.
- No explanation in if you should or shouldn’t use the DLC on your first run or if it changes anything.
- Not the best loading times.
- When destroying large chunks of a building the performance takes a huge hit.
- The voice work at times feels flat and monotone.
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