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===XCOM: Chimera Squad===
A surprise entry into the XCOM series, being teased on April 14th and coming out 10 days later. It was supposed to another expansion for War of the Chosen. However, since XCOM 2 was already bloated, Chimera Squad was turned into its own game instead.

It has very little to do with XCOM proper, being an unholy chop suey of Apocalypse, Final Fantasy Tactics, Guardians of the Galaxy, Tumblrwatch and Alien Nation. The game takes place 5 years after the human victory achieved in XCOM 2, XCOM has become a police force working with the (now no longer enslaved by psionic douchebags) aliens to keep the peace in City <s>17</s> 31. You control Chimera Squad, a DEI-certified, Joss-Whedon-quipping band of misfits (excuse me while I vomit) trying to clean up the town's ADVENT remnants and assorted other crime.

The individual maps are considerably smaller, and mostly divided into "rooms", with each room usually containing a set number of enemies (there are exceptions; endless reinforcements can, and will, arrive on certain mission types). Each mission starts with you breaching the "room," taking a free move or attack action, and letting enemies hunker down (if you caught them by surprise) or take their overwatch fire (if they were expecting you), before the game goes to a turn-based mode with a timeline system similar to Final Fantasy Tactics, and once you've cleared out a room your agents heal a set amount of their HP based on difficulty before you breach the next room. All of your units have a "Subdue" attack which is like a built-in arc thrower, letting you get bonus resources for bringing in enemies alive. Also there are Viper bordellos and anime-style versions of the aliens on various billboards. I can feel [[Commissar Fuklaw]]'s hateful gaze from here. (Unsurprisingly fans have half-jokingly argued that Chimera Squad is what your agents see whenever they get mind controlled.) On the bright side you also get Floyd Tesseract, a surly Sectoid conspiracy theorist voiced by a rather competent J. K. Simmons impersonator.