The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

um jogo muito bom, por mais que não tem algo portugues, mas é um jogo exelente

So this game is something of a mixed bag. It's a decent Mass Effect style of 3rd person shooter with squad commands to tell your two teammates what to do. If the devs had completely left the X-COM name off of the game, it probably would have gotten better reviews than it has. It's not really what X-COM fans would expect or most of them would want out of an X-COM game though. There's a lot of dialogue options throughout the game with the various characters you can talk with. Largely it doesn't feel like these dialogue options amount to any kind of a difference aside from the very end of the main story where you have to pick one of 3 different people and end up controlling them for a brief period. This includes your typical X-COM deal where your teammates can die and if they do, it's permanent. There's not really any reason to let it happen though since the game autosaves fairly often and you can just have it roll back to the last save point if your buddies can't be saved. Speaking of which, the AI controlling your buddies is not very good. If you're not constantly micro-managing what they do, they're probably going to be eating bullets. Sometimes even when you tell them to go to a specific spot, they'll ignore that and go straight out into the open instead of behind cover, which can get really frustrating. The game seems to have weird performance and stability issues, some of them have been well known for many years. I spent nearly the first hour of time with the game just trying to get it to not crash within the first 5 minutes of playtime. I had to find some post on the Steam forums mentioning that the copy of PhysXCore.dll that the game ships with is corrupt and will cause the game to crash. This is fixed by copying your current version of the file from "C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Engine\82D8704BAB07" over the one at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Bureau\Binaries\Win32". After I did that, the crashing stopped. Then I ran into a problem with the framerate randomly tanking to about 2FPS in a couple of rooms in the beginning, and that definitely shouldn't be happening on the hardware I have with a game this old. It was also a little choppy in some other areas, but those couple of rooms that were 2FPS were just incredibly bad. After my first play session, I did more research and ended up disabling all of the PhysX settings and set Shadows to Low, which seems to have fixed it for the rest of the game. I had one level of the game where I was chasing an alien from a shipping crate through a farm and for some reason it didn't trigger for him to show up and attack me, which effectively softlocked the game. It was really confusing and I eventually just restarted that specific mission and did the whole thing over again and it worked right the next time thankfully. It's really disappointing that the devs didn't care enough to even try fixing some of these problems, the PhysXCore.dll file thing in particular is really inexcusable since it's fixed in 5 seconds by swapping the file with a good copy. If you can overlook the problems, the game is alright. It's maybe worth a purchase when it's on sale.