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Extremely fun and challenging Xcom-like game, with the factions from Warhammer

I've played the 'Big Alpha' with a friend, and I've also seen some reviews before writting mine. I have to say that I really liked tha game and I'm planning on buying it, however since it's only an alpha you can get a taste of the basic general experience, but (I hope I'm right when I say this) that's not all the content the game will have:

1 - On the opening cutscene you get at the beginning of every level (as a hunter) the hunters' lockers appear with their names on them, and some of the names are blurred which maybe could mean more classes for hunter in the future. And I imagine there will be more monsters as well, even with the kraken being OP as it is, it was fun to diversify the experience.

2 - The gameplay may be quite repetitive due to lack of content (keeping in mind it's an alpha and it's not supposed to have all the content right away), but it sure isn't always the same, because the matches are played against a player controlled monster every player will have their abilities and strategies to survive, evolve and kill the hunters.

3 - I would assume that new maps will be available later on, maybe a kind of rainforest planet to make things more colourful and have lots of places to hide as a monsters, or to place/hide traps as a hunter. However the maps available on the alpha where very nice and somewhat diverse to me, I often found myself wanting to play on a map that had a swap area different from the rocky hills I was in, just to find out it was the same map. Yes, I thought the maps would be bigger, but again, after playing on them for a while I still think they are quite big, at least big enough to allow the match to be a good length in my opinion (around 15 - 20 minutes).

4 - I said that I played the alpha with a friend, and it was pretty fun to do it, in a few matches we played around with the different classes (and the monster when we weren't in a party) and found the one(s) we liked the most, with their weak and strong points as well as their skills unique for each class. I have to say I was quite disapointed when I wasn't able to play a match as a monster because I was in a party (I understand that people could exploit this to level up quickly), but I think there should be at least a custom match that didn't give any EXP or rewards just so I could play with, let's say, four friends playing as a hunter while I'm a monster taunting or theathening (as a joke obviously) them in voice chat.

5 - The game is $60 right now, and I would not pay that for the game I played, which just to remind everyone was only an alpha, but it's the standard launch price for retail games, and I expect that by the launch date, the game will have more features (and honestly, a better menu interface). As I said before I didn't buy the game just yet, but I'm planning on buying it, however I will also wait for more content reveals or sneak-peaks to be sure before buying it.

That was a pretty extensive review compared to the ones a usually make, but I thought that I had to say that, and I hope I didn't forget anything important.

The combat resembles a lot the batman games, but the rest of the game is pretty unique, all the sidequests are very nice to play and the Nemesis system is simply amazing!!!

Great game, full of options and missions, many hours of gameplay, combat is a bit tricky to get used to, but I'm starting to get used to it.

Ótimo jogo, abre bastante espaço para criatividade sem deixar de lado um pouco de física, só espero que criem algum tutorial para ajudar novos jogadores com todas as funcionalidades do jogo.

Divertido e engraçado, sempre volto a jogar de tempos em tempos.