It’s almost too hard.Įach campaign plays out as you’d expect. Even on the easiest possible difficulty settings, European Assault is a challenge.
You’ll never be quite sure if you’re going to make it to the other side. Each wave is going to be an edge of your seat affair. To be honest, it’s a surprise EXOR showed this off as that’s probably the biggest highlight of all the content and quite a sight to see up close and in person.īut for me, that’s where European Assault shines is in creating these full-scale, epic confrontations, battles and wars really well. If you can stay alive.Īnd as you’ve probably seen on the store page, there’s a massive tank late on which absolutely decimates the Eiffel Tower. So it’s up to you to try and defend them as well as your core, otherwise you’ll need to rebuild. If you can somehow gut that out, though, later on in the waves the enemies will go one step further and use air support to blow the towers up completely once they’re ice solid. And as you can imagine, without towers, your core will quickly get overrun. This is used to freeze the X-Force towers, rendering them completely useless.
Perhaps, because the enemy has adapted slightly and has some new surprises for you.įor instance, in Finland the humans will fire a frostbite cannon. Each one needs to be unlocked in set order, though, so you’ll have to play them the way the game wants you to. Well, yes, but I guess that’s the point as the DLC pack is purely three new campaign missions to wade through as you try to protect your core in Finland, Holland and Paris. X-Morph Defense is one of the best hybrid genres of recent times and for its first major DLC, European Assault, EXOR Studios have done a decent job.Įuropean Assault runs parallel to the events of the base game and sees players once again assume the role of the X-Morph alien species, blowing lots of teeny tiny humans up as they drive around in their tanks and fly around in choppers.Īs always, the effects and environmental damage are stunning, it’s as fast-paced as ever, everything flows nicely and most importantly, it immediately escalates the challenge so that it will be a real test for seasoned players.Īnd yet, it all feels a bit too familiar.