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Capes review

ll the best superhero teams have one thing in common: everyone has their role. While Wolverine's charging in, claws flashing, Cyclops is up on a ridge shooting down lasers, Iceman is zipping around freezing foes, Jean Grey is delving into a supervillain's mind, and Colossus is body-blocking energy blasts...
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Capes review - XCOM with superheroes and tricky turn-based tactics

It only takes one look at Spitfire Interactive's Capes to see that it's the lovechild of XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns. This expectation sets perhaps an unfairly high bar for a new developer's debut game, but it's hard to escape those comparisons. And while Capes never quite reaches the heights of its inspirations, it does deliver its own challenging strategic style.

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Capes is a superhero game about the legacy its heroes inherit, but also the legacy of turn-based tactics as a genre

Irrational's Freedom Force games celebrated the Silver Age of comics in all its goofy glory, with a cast of characters including a time-traveling robot called Microwave and a witch named Alchemiss. Capes evokes a later, more serious era: the Bronze Age of the 1970s and '80s, after Stan Lee ditched the Comics Code Authority's seal of approval to publish a Spider-Man story about drugs. It was a time when superhero stories became grittier, more political, and often dystopian...
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Superheroes and XCOM collide in this brilliantly tense and tactical turn-based strategy game

In the dystopian future of Capes, renegade superheroes are called "Capes", but none of them wear capes. What are you supposed to make of that? I was planning to dedicate the following 1000 words to trying to figure out a possible explanation for this bizarre state of affairs, but then it turned out to have really excellent turn-based strategy combat, so unfortunately I've had to pivot...
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Superhero strategy game Capes confirmed for release on May 29th

Capes is an XCOM-like superhero strategy game coming from Spitfire Interactive, comprised of key creatives behind the Hand of Fate franchise. It has a new trailer and a release date now!

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/superhero-strategy-game-capes-confirmed-for-release-on-may-29th