New XCOM announced.

Jezcentral · 14 Apr 2010 at 10:49

...but's it's not being worked on by Ken Levine (as was widely speculated), it's 2K Marin, who coincidentally followed up Bioshock, which he was the lead on.

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6258092.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;1

I was already expecting an FPS, so I wasn't completely thrown by that. I'd still like a turn-based strategy XCOM, though.

Streeteh · 14 Apr 2010 at 10:50

As i said in the console forum:

Streeteh said:
So a game has had a big name slapped on the box, but is developed by no one involved in the creation of the original titles and bares no resemblance to its predecessors?

Ladies and gentlemen, i feel we have another farcry 2 on our hands.

Oh and Bioshock 2 was rubbish imo, so i have little hope for Marin making a good effort of this.

Jezcentral · 14 Apr 2010 at 10:51

Streeteh said:
As i said in the console forum:

Sorry. I never go in there.

Streeteh · 14 Apr 2010 at 10:53

Jezcentral said:
Sorry. I never go in there.

Oh i wasn't criticising you for missing the thread, a thread about this belongs here, especially considering Xcoms heritage in PC gaming. I just couldn't be arsed typing the same message out twice

Yamahahahahaha · 14 Apr 2010 at 10:56

X-COM... FPS... Miss... The... Point...

Fresh take on a classic

No...

"Reimagining" of the franchise

NO!....

Players will take the role of an FBI agent whose job is to identify and eliminate an unknown extraterrestrial threat.

WiZZyWiGG · 14 Apr 2010 at 10:57

Sad that this is a FPS rather than a proper X-COM game.... however you never know it might be ok.... maybe...

DampCat · 14 Apr 2010 at 10:59

So they've just bought the rights to use the word "Xcom", basically.

Sigh.

Wait wait... FBI? So you're not even an XCom agent?! ffs.

Hellsmk2 · 14 Apr 2010 at 11:31

Aaaaaaand we have another Fallout scenario!

Screw you developers, screw you and your families.

FoxEye · 14 Apr 2010 at 11:46

XCom 1 & 2 are still fun to play

We've had...3 (?) crappy sequels (afterlight/aftershock/afterbirth) so I don't think another crappy sequel is really going to change much.

Just pretend nothing after TFTD was ever made; works for me

Mobius 1 · 14 Apr 2010 at 11:49

Hellsmk2 said:
Aaaaaaand we have another Fallout scenario!

Screw you developers, screw you and your families.

whut? fallout 3 is great! okay, not as good as the first two...but still, bethesda did a great job IMO.

Noto · 14 Apr 2010 at 11:56

not turn based... wut? is it still Xcom or an HL mod...?!?

re-release X-Com Enemy Unknown with latest gfx and the same midi sounds and ill be in heaven...

frankmcg · 14 Apr 2010 at 14:12

Noto said:
not turn based... wut? is it still Xcom or an HL mod...?!?

re-release X-Com Enemy Unknown with latest gfx and the same midi sounds and ill be in heaven...

+1

I was replaying TFFD the other day. Man that game is hard. Had to do a cruise ship mission not long after starting, so no armour or decent guns. Think I loaded it 20 or more times trying to do it without losing more than 1/2 my squad. Realised I was never going to get close to finishing the game though, that one mission took up all my gaming time for a weekend!

Hellsmk2 · 14 Apr 2010 at 14:14

-Tauren- said:
whut? fallout 3 is great! okay, not as good as the first two...but still, bethesda did a great job IMO.

It doesn't fit in with the style of the first two games in any way at all. It should never have had the fallout name attached to it.

EvilOne · 14 Apr 2010 at 14:22

Noto said:
not turn based... wut? is it still Xcom or an HL mod...?!?

I used to play xcom apoc in realtime mode, liked it better lol (a machine gun in each hand shooting on auto fire mode

)

Not sure about this FPS thing tho...

Sleepery · 14 Apr 2010 at 14:40

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment. Interceptor wasn't so bad, they managed to keep the whole research / upgrade model and apply it to a completely different game type.

If they can do it with an FPS, with squad control, civilians to protect and destructible buildings, it might be worth a shot.

The most important thing will be to keep the tenseness - the player needs to be creeping around, scared silly, rather than running and gunning hundreds of aliens.

LokiS · 14 Apr 2010 at 14:42

X-com WOOOTTT!!!!......

FPS?

.. :confused:

...

Darg · 14 Apr 2010 at 14:47

FoxEye said:
Just pretend nothing after TFTD was ever made; works for me

Hey now, apocalypse was a great game.

Even Interceptor was okay for a strategy/space flight game.

Jezcentral · 14 Apr 2010 at 15:31

EvilOne said:
I used to play xcom apoc in realtime mode.

I seem top remember the turn-based combat in apocalypse was very badly implemented. I tried and failed to play that way, and ended up going real-time as it was the only way it was playable.

Not a bad game, but nowhere near as good as the first two games.

FoxEye · 14 Apr 2010 at 15:40

Jezcentral said:
I seem top remember the turn-based combat in apocalypse was very badly implemented. I tried and failed to play that way, and ended up going real-time as it was the only way it was playable.

Not a bad game, but nowhere near as good as the first two games.

The real-time wasn't much better.

I remember opening a door, and being shot 3 times by an alien, before the fog of war on the other side was lifted

The total destruction of buildings was a hoot, tho. I remember deliberately starting files in warehouses, and literally smoking the aliens out

Apoc wasn't as good, however. The lack of random maps for UFO missions was a big downer for me, along with the lack of heavy weapons platforms, which I really missed from the first two.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 14 Apr 2010 at 18:01

Double post embarrassment...