![]() The idea is that in each session of Invisible Inc you’re preparing for an inevitable “war” with the corporations. Agents are built to die, and each session of Invisible Inc only lasts for an in-game “72 hours” or rather, six to seven missions. ![]() Don’t forget I said this game resembles Shadowrun and XCOM. You shouldn’t get too comfortable with any one agent setup or loadout however. The Russian blonde bombshell Nika is built for combat, while former pop idol Prism is good for netting PWR return. There are several different agents you can unlock over the course of gameplay, each coming with a different preset “augment” (for the cybernetically challenged, a technology boost grafted to their body) that gives them an initial unique use in battle. Of course the game goes deeper than just relying on Incognita. You’ll also run into more and more traps that require you use Incognita’s abilities, from ground sensors to drones to turrets, so you must be very careful not to spend her powers willy nilly. For example a firewall might have a much maligned “Daemon” asigned to it that will punish Incognita and by extension, your party. While you can initially use Incognita pretty liberally, the game throws more and more curve balls at you. PWR can only be replenished by draining consoles or a few unique passive abilities such as Power Drip and Emergency Drip. Of course this doesn’t come without penalty, Incognita’s abilities require you use power or PWR. You use Incognita to break down enemy “firewalls” and make their gear yours. Incognita takes you into a matrix type world where she can hack cameras, consoles, safes, you name it. Quite literally the entire game is built around her, from the plot to building your player strategies around her abilities and limitations. An advanced AI program by the name Incognita. Which brings us to Invisible Inc’s most unique mechanic and the one you’ll be abusing the most. ![]() In fact getting a lay of the land before you act is of utmost importance in Invisible Inc, this includes peeking through doors before opening them and hijacking security cameras to keep an eye rooms in your path. ![]() The first noticeable change is that cover won’t mitigate damage as it does in the aforementioned games, rather it prevents your character from being spotted. The turn based combat is exactly like what you find in Harebrained’s Shadowrun and the latest XCOM, tile based movement, an action point system, and cover mechanics are all at play. You start off with two very expendable agents, Decker and Internationale, and your goal will often be getting them to a single objective and getting them out the map unscathed. However Klei took their experiences building a stealth game in Mark of the Ninja and massaged it well into this new formula. When developers do tackle it, it’s possible to get the formula pretty wrong, as per my gripes with another recently reviewed game. ![]() is the first turn based stealth by any mean, but it is a relatively untouched genre (I bet you can’t name two of the games I’m thinking of. The love baby that follows nine months later is an exquisite blend of both games, making for an effective and fun turn based stealth experience. is what happens when you play some Barry Manilow, light a few candles, pour a glass of silky wine and put XCOM and Shadowrun in a room together. ![]()
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