Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakene, joined by freelance writer and consultant, Rowan Kaiser.

Hello.

And today we also welcome back our friend, freelance writer Bruno Diaz.

Yo.

Though I don't know if that's your only title these days, Bruno.

I just know you as a freelance writer, because that's how we've worked together.

For all I know now, like you've got this, a robust narrative design business going. Yeah, I mean, it's not looking

so robust these days, but then again, nothing is. So I've got an excuse now. But you know

where there's always work being cops? No matter what happens in life, there's always work being cops?

No matter what happens in life, there's always work to be had in forcing society's roles and regulations.

That's right.

Today we are talking about XCOM Chimera Squad, the spinoff tactics game that is set in the post-war future of XCOM 2.

Rowan, do you want to set up a little bit?

What is this game?

So the narrative premise is that it's five years after the war the good guys have won, and there is a new society of humans and aliens and hybrids that are trying to live together and some assholes who are trying to mess that up.

And you play a cop squad that's kind of spun off from the original excom organization that is like basically a SWAT team that gets hired to go into a new,

uh, or not a new city, but a city that needed your help in order to deal with the

assholes who are trying to mess things up for the new human, alien hybrid, uh, society.

Um, what it is like in practice is a model. hybrid society.

What it is, like, in practice, is a much smaller scale, kind of slightly more narrative-focused, and with embedded characters instead of the random creator, random really created characters

of XCOM and XCOM 2, like,

expand alone to use the marketing term. But yes. It's almost less like an expand alone and more

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