Marvel's Midnight Suns is a brilliant superhero social sim, and a great tactics game to boot. Check out our review:
The team behind XCOM has given me my next mission objective. It’s not to destroy an alien relay, extract a VIP from a hot zone, or board a crashed UFO. Instead, I’m to watch a movie with a friend in Marvel's Midnight Suns. A western, if the Eastwood-esque figure flashing across the television set is anything to go by, though the particulars of the film’s plot turn out to be unimportant.
In retrospect, you can trace a line from the last project Jake Solomon directed, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, to this one. Back then, Firaxis emphasised the bonds between your soldiers with shared moves, and introduced a—who, in their reptilian loftiness, bear more than a passing resemblance to Midnight Suns' big bad, Lilith. The developer's new effort represents a doubling down, or perhaps even a quadrupling, of those elements.
Yet you rarely feel like you're drowning. Since this is a Marvel fantasy, every hero in your roster can one-shot a minion without breaking a sweat—and every fresh Hydra body is an opportunity to flex by flinging an opponent into an explosive barrel with Ghost Rider's flaming chain, or knocking them upside their head with a stack of New York newspapers.
The Abbey functions much like Mass Effect's Normandy, if it was plonked down in the gardens of a stately home.
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