zero company is a triumph for star wars

I hit credits on Star Wars: Zero Company last night, the latest Star Wars title from some XCOM alums at Bit Reactor (& some other great folks who didn't work on XCOM, as I understand). The game is great. If you have any interest in XCOM-style turn-based tactics, this should go very high up your list. Hell, if you liked Baldur's Gate III and want something "like that, but sci fi" it should go on your list. It's very mechanically similar! Zero Company (aka ZCOM1) begins in the twilight months of the Clone Wars, a setting that is already done to death both in good and bad ways — The Clone Wars (the tv show for babies) is extremely good when it's good, and embarrassing preschool shit when it's bad (I'm looking at you, D-Squad). But where other Star Wars media tends to get bogged down in the Big Names or the fucking Skywalker Saga, Zero Company is mercifully free of that baggage! Much like Andor, a show you should watch. Watch Andor. You play as "Hawks" (gender selectable, race selectable,…