An asteroid strike should have been the apocalypse’s opening act; instead, it became the pretext for a regime to seize the reins. Chains of Freedom opens in a scarred slice of Eastern Europe where shards of alien Eden crystals twist citizens into snarling mutants and the Sovereignty’s steel‑booted Peacekeepers enforce order with rifle barrels and propaganda posters.
The moment our transport spirals into a contaminated exclusion zone, the game hands control to a splintered squad cut off from command. Regrouping is only the first objective—survival, scarce ammunition, and the creeping suspicion that our superiors are hiding something far uglier follow close behind.
Mechanically, Nordcurrent sits squarely in the modern tactics lineage, marrying the AP‑driven shoot‑and‑scoot rhythm of Xcom with the free‑form exploratory pauses found in Mutant Year Zero. Battles pause time into calculated slices, while between firefights you sweep derelict towns in real time,...
The moment our transport spirals into a contaminated exclusion zone, the game hands control to a splintered squad cut off from command. Regrouping is only the first objective—survival, scarce ammunition, and the creeping suspicion that our superiors are hiding something far uglier follow close behind.
Mechanically, Nordcurrent sits squarely in the modern tactics lineage, marrying the AP‑driven shoot‑and‑scoot rhythm of Xcom with the free‑form exploratory pauses found in Mutant Year Zero. Battles pause time into calculated slices, while between firefights you sweep derelict towns in real time,...
- 4/16/2025
- by Mahan Zahiri
- Gazettely
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