STAR WARS Zero Company

The game

The story is set at the end of the Clone Wars. You play Hawks, a former Republic officer leading Zero Company, a squad tasked with stopping a threat to the whole galaxy. Hawks can be customised (specialisation and look), and so can the squad: scoundrels, astromechs, clone troopers and a Jedi, each with their own gear and abilities.

The game moves between a base of operations, where missions are prepared, and turn-based battles. Bonds between agents who fight together unlock synergies. According to the Steam page, the game has French interface and subtitles, with English voice acting.

What the press says (PS5 reviews)

Combat is the strength everyone mentions. Metro calls it nuanced and simple to control. GamingBolt praises an excellent tactical loop with new hooks such as back-up and Bonds that slot in naturally. Loot Level Chill calls the combat excellent.

Writing and characters also land: Metro, GamingBolt, Loot Level Chill and TheSixthAxis list them among the strengths. GamingBolt notes that the plot takes a while to get going.

The weaknesses are mostly technical. ComicBook and TheSixthAxis report many bugs, and Metro met some during its review. Loot Level Chill mentions frame rate issues, GamingBolt weak shadows and aliasing in Performance Mode. Metro finds the strategy layer fairly simple and the combat close to XCOM. Video Chums finds it too easy and repetitive over time. TheSixthAxis says larger missions become a slog.

Our reading

The six reviews agree: this is a good tactics game, true to Star Wars, that owes a lot to XCOM. Scores range from 7/10 to 9/10, with the gap mostly down to launch bugs. The displayed average is computed by the site from these six scores.