Strike Team Gladius

I'm a bit on the fence here... The first thing to mention is that the game is paaaainfully retro. It would be a B-C list game on the PS2. Battlefields are sparse, the intro is near enough a still with one of the devs putting on a funny voice, and even the save slots were somehow old school (took me back to memory card days!). If I'm honest with myself it actually reminded me of Amiga games more than anything. I had the Total Recall song stuck in my head for an hour... The second thing to mention is that, whilst looking a hell of a lot like X-Com, this game plays more like the battles from the Age of Wonders series. By that I mean, it feels a bit more like ramming troops at each other than meticulous planning and a lot of RNG finger crossing. That said, I have only tried normal, maybe positioning becomes more of a thing on harder difficulties. (Edit - Seems I spoke too soon. The RNG is strong with this one) There are a number of very cool elements to this game. Squad selection, an ...

Strike Team Gladius is a typical Wave Light game, and in my book that’s a good thing. The story serves as the framework for the game campaign's 40 combat missions, so it’s all about building a team and tactical combat. Finishing the campaign twice took me about 100 hours. There are 12 different classes, each with a male and a female version. They all have different stats, skills and abilities. You choose 6 of them and off you go. After each mission your units get EXP points and after roughly 5 missions they get an upgrade - if you can keep them alive, that is. If not they still get some EXP, but it will take longer to get an upgrade. There is no permadeath in the game and if you fail a mission you can always try again (while keeping the EXP you got in your first attempt). You can also replay successful missions to gain more EXP points. However, that is not necessary at all when playing on normal difficulty: the game is well balanced and you should be able to complete every missi...

Update: The game has improved tremendously in early access and a lot of the rough edges have been removed. And the difficulty curve has been mostly smoothed out. A tutorial has also been added that helps quite a bit in getting the player oriented. Two new classes (exo armor troopers) were also added an are a lot of fun! And now it is out of early access! Definitely recommended for fans of tactical turn based games! Original Review: Strike Team Gladius is a solid squad based strategy game by WaveLight games. Your 6 squad members will fight aliens in a variety of outdoor environments, with a large variety of allies and enemies. It is currently in early access and has some rough edges, but progress has been fast on sanding them down. Definitely worth a buy if you are a squad based strategy fan! Pros: Lots of characters choices - there are 22 different characters (11 roles with male and female variants) to make your party of 6 from . The skills of the male and female are very di...

Strike Team Gladius, like its predecessor turn-based tactics titles from Wave Light Games, represents a small indie studio's latest step in perfecting the class-based RPG skirmisher. Inject this directly into your bloodstream if you: have enjoyed previous games from Wave Light; enjoy tabletop skirmish wargames or turn-based tactics games; value gameplay over story. Replayability is very high given the sheer number of class and skill combinations possible in a squad. The rule set has depth and feels well balanced. I'm about halfway through with my first real team, and it's just been a great ride. As always, the character models and their little animation loops out on the hex grid are super cool. To those purchasing during Early Access: development has been great so far. The game is almost feature complete, yet new features and QoL improvements keep coming. Highly recommended.

It's a wave light game. Get a brief story to start, pick your team of six characters, and start through the story. Advance into enemy terrain or (probably) defend an area. Use your turn well, then see who shows up and what enemies do. In this case, the science fiction theme makes it more fun for me somehow than the fantasy games I've played before. I'm not far in yet, but I really enjoyed experimenting with the guns and skills. Exploding elements were fun, as were the differences between soldiers of the same "class."

Overall, a very good tactics RPG. It plays more like a tabletop game in some ways as it uses a counter attack system and a fixed number for movement and attacks rather than an action point system. Once you get used to it, it makes for really fast gameplay. Graphics: Decent enough and seem well optimized. Nothing ground breaking but not bad at all. Lots of nice particle effects, reflections and so on. Nice atmosphere in the desert levels. I haven’t seen any of the other areas yet. Audio: Decent audio with nice music and ambient sounds (at least in desert levels). Sound effects have good punch while voices are okay, a few are a bit cheesy but not too off putting. Gameplay: There’s surprising depth here and I haven’t explored it all yet. The game’s focus seems to be throwing a lot of different enemies at you from lots of directions and having you come up with ways to kill as many as possible. Catching a whole bunch of aliens in the radius of frag grenade or rocket launcher is...

I played 25.5 hours before my PC crashed (due to other reasons) and I was having a blast. This is a great addition to your series. I love the maps, etc. Everything is just a step easier than before. The UI is nice, clean and easy. The only "bugs" I encountered in 25.5 hours were a couple of graphic glitches where a shield for cover might show on the map for no reason on one hex, extremely minor stuff. That is very impressive! I highly recommend these games as they are a lot of fun for turn-based, tactical, 6-man, 3-D, isometric shooters. 5 stars!

Simple game that reminds me of the old zip lock, paper map and cardboard counters games I used to play.

I love this game, it has a small niche but fills it perfectly; it may not have a deep story but the turn based combat is well done and feels fairly balanced. If you want a simple turn based game to sit back and relax with this is it.

Really enjoying this, best game in the 'Wavelight' series games yet (as always, keep in mind I almost 'love' these wavelight games for the simple reason they are highly grindable and allow customization of your characters through what you buy at the shop - meaning you can replay missions over and over and get xp and level your characters, and then buy items at the store that give specific bonuses that will create certain types of builds, you can change the difficulty but with the endless grinding possible you will always be able to create almost 'unstoppable' characters, for the people that hate weird 'frustration' points in games, I love grinding and customizing and these are the perfect types for it, and you can always go masochist and play on high difficulties with low level characters, if you feel like it - this game doesn't force you in a 'linear' progression path and Wavelight is an amazing game company for catering to those types of gamers, should be how a...