As your party walks around, you have the ability to control when the first shot is fired because you can sneak by enemies and take up advantageous positions outside of their sightlines. One unique thing about the game, though, is real time stealth.
Like with XCOM, your "units" (the characters) and enemies can take cover, utilize high ground, and use special abilities during combat turns. And maybe after another few games, The Bearded Ladies will be putting out a few all-time classics.The real meat of the game, though, lies with the combat system. But given a month, Mutant Year Zero is going to be a helluva lot of fun to play. There are also places where the dev team seems to be scratching their heads and shrugging. There’s good writing in this RPG, and clever combat.
It’s certainly not the masterpiece that The Witcher 3 is, but it has all of that potential and creativity of the first Witcher. A few years later, we got The Witcher 3, the most beautiful, refined, RPG I’ve ever played, and one that was unafraid to leave decades of game design behind in the name of creating something that felt right. So was the way you had to oil your swords to fight specific beasts. The potion system and meditation was unusual. I remember playing the original Witcher and seeing the bones of a Bioware RPG, but also something entirely unique. It was the original Witcher game from CDProjekt Red. Developers The Bearded Ladies are an indie studio from Sweden, and I can’t remember the last time I played a non-English import with such good writing.