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Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. (Japanese:Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. リンカーンVSエイリアンCode Name: S.T.E.A.M. Lincoln VS. Aliens) is a turn-based strategy game released in 2015 for theNintendo 3DS hand-held console. It was developed byIntelligent Systems, the principal developers of theFire Emblem series, but unlike it and its sister seriesWars, the game is controlled from the third-person perspective of the playable units and plays not unlike a third-person shooter, with the player using each unit's personal supply of steam power to either move the unit or have them attack the enemy aliens. The third-person perspective prevents the player from having an overhead view of everything happening on the map like inFire Emblem, instead forcing the player to strategize based only on what their units see happening around them.
The game is set in the year 1865, in an alternate,steampunk-themed reality where the technology of thesteam engine has led to a technological revolution and become a staple of life. When an alien species begins an assault on Earth, the President of the United States,Abraham Lincoln, commands a covert strike force known as S.T.E.A.M. to repel the aliens and defend Earth. The player controls agents of S.T.E.A.M., which is made up of a mix of real people and characters from North American literature, with the chief protagonist beingHenry Fleming. Through the use ofamiibo, characters fromFire Emblem can also be commanded.
Gameplay
The game is divided into chapters, which are themselves divided into multiple maps, and in each map the player commands an army of up to four characters and navigates them across the battlefield to defeat the aliens and reach the goal zone at the map's end. Secondary goals include collecting medals and gears scattered around the maps, which when enough are collected will unlock new sub-weapons and boilers for the player's characters to use as the game progresses.
The ability to perform actions revolves around a character's personal supply of steam power. Every character starts a map with a supply of steam and expends it to perform actions, with moving one tile costing one unit of steam while attacking involves multiple units, depending on the weapon used. Characters are capable of attacking as many times per turn as they want, as long as they can afford the steam cost, but the farther they move, the fewer times they will be allowed to attack. The steam supply can be replenished by picking up steam canisters or stopping at checkpoints as the character moves around. Characters are allowed to end their turn without using all of their steam, and if they have enough steam remaining to allow a weapon use, they can performoverwatch attacks, or counterattacks, during enemy phase if an enemy wanders into their sight.
All characters are assigned three pieces of equipment: amain weapon, asub-weapon, and aboiler. A unit's main weapon is their primary personal weapon which nobody else can use, while the sub-weapon is one of many which the player can assign to units as they please; in battle, these are toggled between at the flick of a switch on the console's touch screen. Boilers are back-worn devices which are the source of a unit's steam power, and each offers a different maximum steam capacity, rate of steam replenishment per turn, and boosts to offense, defense or mobility. Characters also possess two innate skills: a regularability which is in effect at all times, and a powerful one-offspecial which can only be used once per map.
Playable characters
In addition to the thirteen regular playable characters, fourFire Emblem characters can be used by connecting the game with their respectiveamiibo from theSuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS andWii U amiibo series. TheFire Emblem characters operate by slightly different rules compared to the regular characters: they are unable to equip any boilers or sub-weapons other than the ones they come with, and if they are defeated, theycannot be revived at checkpoints and must be re-summoned after the battle by using their amiibo again.
Marth
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Marth
As inSuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS andWii U, Marth appears in this game in hisFire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem design. In the Japanese version, he is once again voiced byHikaru Midorikawa;Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. also marks the first time that Marth has had an English voice actor since theFire Emblem OVA's dub in 1997, his English actor here beingYuri Lowenthal. Marth's two weapons areFalchion and aRapier, both of which are close-range weapons.
Marth's stats are as follows:
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Ike
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Ike
As inSuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS andWii U, Ike appears in this game in hisFire Emblem: Radiant DawnHero attire, and is once again voiced by Michihiko Hagi and Jason Adkins in Japanese and English respectively. His two weapons areRagnell andUrvan, the former allowing him to attack enemies over an impressive distance by throwing shockwaves, and the latter dealing heavy damage to multiple enemies and objects in close proximity to him.
Ike's stats are as follows:
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Lucina
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Lucina
As inSuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS andWii U, Lucina appears in this game in herFire Emblem AwakeningLord attire, and is voiced by Yu Kobayashi and Laura Bailey in Japanese and English respectively. Her two weapons areParallel Falchion andNidhogg, the former allowing her to leap to a tile within 2 to 3 tiles and deal damage to any single enemy on the tile, and the latter allowing her to fire at a single far-to-mid range enemy.
Lucina's stats are as follows:
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Robin
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Robin
As inSuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS andWii U, Robin appears in this game in his maleTactician attire fromFire Emblem Awakening, and is voiced by Yoshimasa Hosoya and David Vincent in Japanese and English respectively. His two weapons are theLevin Sword andTome, the former allowing him to strike enemies with lightning at medium range, the latter allowing him to launch fireballs at a great distance.
Robin's stats are as follows:
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Etymology and other languages
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| Language | Name | Definition, etymology, and notes |
| English | Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. | -- |
| Japanese | Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. リンカーンVSエイリアン | Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. Lincoln VS. Aliens |
| Spanish | Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. | -- |
| French | Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. | -- |
| German | Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. | -- |
| Italian | Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. | -- |
| Korean | Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. | -- |
Gallery
American (NTSC) box art ofCode Name: S.T.E.A.M..
