Taking the franchise to a new level, Crossfire: Legion is sure to delight strategy game fans. Although Early Access had given fans a taste of the game, it’s now available to the general public. With Crossfire’s snappy first-person shooter mechanics, Blackbird Legion was taking a risk by switching to a real-time strategy game.
A good innovation requires a calculated risk, and Crossfire: Legion borrows a page from Halo: ODST’s playbook. Fortunately for fans of both genres, the result is a game worth playing.
Winning Methods
As players attempt to control the chaos of combat from a bird’s eye view, Crossfire: Legion doesn’t quite reach the highs of other genre standards such as XCOM. Black List, Global Risk, and New Horizon are the three factions in conflict with one another, and each faction has its own unique storyline, as well as a different flavor to combat.
Black List’s troops are fast guerilla fighters. Overall, Crossfire: Legion does a great job of balancing the game.
Despite the fact that the campaign isn’t as long as I hoped it would be, it moves at a fast pace over the 15 missions. In addition to PVP, the game features several co-op modes such as Arcade, Defense, and Attack. Players can battle each other across seven distinct maps.
A Battle Rages
While the campaign leaves a bit to be desired, it does a great job of easing players into the game’s mechanics without ever being too confusing or bogged down. As a real-time strategy game, Crossfire: Legion doesn’t try to reinvent the genre, but it does offer a fun branch.
As players gather resources, they plan attacks and try to flank the enemy 3 vs. 3 mode provides a chaotic battlefield where players have to think quickly. Unfortunately, the game does not support offline bots or offline split screens. So if you plan on playing, make sure your Wi-Fi is strong enough.
It may not appeal to all Crossfire fans, especially shooter fans, but it’s interesting. In spite of the fact that sometimes franchises can float too close to the sun, this instalment is a worthwhile addition to the Crossfire series.
