Each time a bullet from an unseen alien strikes one of your tiny team of heroes it will be like a bullet in your own heart, as the creeping, desperate attempts to see where it came from begin a long slow sweep of the area with your team's eyes. In Rebelstar Tactical Command, be prepared to fail, and fail, and fail again. Each turn becomes a slow crawl forwards, attempting to spot and destroy the enemy before they can even see you. Sounds easy enough? Well, wisely spending your points has far, far more importance than you'd place upon your Tesco clubcard - especially when you factor in some of the harshest line-of-sight rules I've ever seen in a game. Most strategic is the 'overwatch' option, in which you can spend your action points to attack in the enemy's turn. While I do miss the lovely animated globe from the PC X-Com titles, the real meat of the game has always been in those turn-based sections, which work with quite a different, if perfectly valid, logic from the Japanese titles that crowd the GBA strategy market.Įach turn your team members are allotted 'action points' which can be spent as they wish - on movement, attacking and accessing their equipment. Thanks to the limitations of the GBA hardware, the resource management sections have been dropped completely, replaced with soldiers who gain experience points that you can spend on skill upgrades and the (limited) ability to choose your deployment and equipment at the start of each mission. It's not just the fact that I hate aliens in general, either.Ĭoming from the legendary Gollop brothers, Rebelstar Tactical Command is the spiritual continuation of the X-Com series (and nominally a direct continuation of the Rebelstar series, last seen on the ZX Spectrum in 1988, fact fans) games that featured both turn-based segments and resource management in terminally addictive UFO defence strategy titles. And despite the brightly coloured cutesy graphics, clearly inspired directly by the game's main competitors (Final Fantasy Tactics and the Advance Wars), I hate the aliens in Rebelstar Tactical Command. Maybe it's the idea of being shot up into a space ship and probed by them.
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