PREVIEW
over-world with players looking over the city managing which of their cronies goes where, dishing out equipment, levelling up specific character traits, negotiating prices for goods and clicking on icons poised above key buildings to initiative mission activity. Every action will preoccupy your cronies for a while, so if you need to pick up some illegal booze to keep your speakeasy supplied, that’ll take some time. Want to collect some protection money from the surrounding businesses? That’ll keep one of your cronies busy too. Thankfully you’ll soon accrue dozens of devilish little helpers, all with their brand of moxy and voice-acting. Where it gets really interesting though, is the combat. Whenever one of these missions involves combat, be it due to player aggression or just a routine activity gone awry, Omerta’s second component springs into action: the turn-based tactical portion.
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Here the over-world gives way to a zoomed-in perspective, with players no longer orchestrating their underworld army en masse, instead just whichever unfortunate souls find themselves in trouble.
“XCOM saved the tactical strategy genre when it was released last year, but Omerta builds on that revival in some exciting and entertaining ways” Objectives vary from killing all enemies to securing goods safely, but like XCOM you’re never in any doubt of what your units are capable off, what skills they have at their disposal and how many action points or AP they have left. Combat is a delicate balancing act between moving your units into positions