![]() Your team can usually execute three actions per turn, which creates some interesting tactical decisions. Building up character decks is a difficult-but-rewarding process, since you’ll have to customize each character’s arsenal, card by card.Įach turn, you’ll draw up to six cards, which might represent attacks, healing moves, support abilities, specialized movement or other skills. After a while, though, you’ll be able to fine-tune your decks enough that you should almost always have a relevant skill at your disposal. The cards introduce a level of randomness into the proceedings. Each character has a customizable deck of cards, which determine their actions each turn.įans of XCOM, Firaxis’ other big strategy series, may find the deckbuilding elements intrusive at first. In each mission, three heroes square off against a variety of HYDRA goons, demonic monsters and supervillains in turn-based battles. You create an original hero called The Hunter, then recruit a team of 13 recognizable Marvel superheroes, from Captain America to Wolverine. Marvellous? Pretty much.Platforms: PC (reviewed), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/SĪt its core, Midnight Suns is a strategy card game with RPG elements. "The combat missions can feel a little side-lined by the sheer wealth of resource management tasks and relationship building, but all the pieces serve a purpose within the richly detailed whole. ![]() "Marvel's Midnight Suns works wonders to freshen up familiar Marvel characters, producing lively battles from focused turn-based systems, then diving into their personalities and histories to reveal their intimate concerns," reads our verdict. And that's a shame because it's really quite good! Our 4/5-star Midnight Suns review praises the intricate turn-based combat system that's a marked departure from Firaxis's earlier effort, XCOM, as well as the rich histories and colorful personalities of its cast of heroes, and the surprisingly deep gameplay elements tucked away at the Abbey, your heroes' home base. Maybe people are turned off by card games, or maybe they're burnt out by Marvel games after that one from a few years back that rhymes with Larvel's Revengers, but the post-launch hype around Marvel's Midnight Suns seems to have petered out pretty quickly. ![]()
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