Don’t miss out on the spiritual successor to classic superhero tactics game Freedom Force.
King City has fallen. 20 years ago, a band of supervillains emerged from their hiding holes, overpowered the heroes, and took over the metropolis. Now, it’s up to you as the commander of a squad of young superheroes to wrest it from their grip again. Inspired by legendary turn-based tactics game XCOM, as well as other classics, Capes adds a comic-book twist to this venerable PC genre.
If this premise sounds familiar to gamers of a certain vintage, then it’s because Capes is written by Morgan Jaffit, the same creative mind that brought us Freedom Force, the cult-classic superhero tactics game from way back in 2002. In many ways, Capes is dusting off the superhero costume that Freedom Force left behind, and updating it with the gadgetry, gloss, and depth that modern games demand.
In the dystopian city run by villainous despots Crashdamage, Wildstar, Primax and Alpha, superpowers have been outlawed (apart from their own ones, of course), meaning you have to assemble your team from the underground, taking on side-missions to build up your powers while working your way through an epic cinematic campaign. With over 50 Missions and 150 heroic challenges to take on, there’s a lot of work to do to retake King City, but hey, someone’s gotta do it!
So let’s meet some of the Heroes.
