Morgoth said:Fucking awesome news.
FPS > TB strategy. Always.
Two things. One, there are rumors Firaxis is making a turn based strategy game with the license at the same time but nothing is confirmed and I would doubt it. And two, this isn't Irrational. Irrational is Irrational again, 2K Marin are the pussies who didn't like Ken Levine and splintered off to milk the Bioshock name and made a comparatively shitty sequel.Morgoth said:The only XCOM strategy game I'd accept would have to come from Firaxis - they're the only ones left that have a fucking clue of that genre.
But Irrational/2K are doing what they're doing best - crafting brilliant story-driven first-person shooters. That what count's the most, not the XCOM setting, that's only secondary.
entertainer said:wheres your dumbfuck tag?
X-COM is only a name, but people will get exited about it, even console kiddies who don't know shit about previous games since it's revival of legendary franchise by dudes from Bioshock2! It reminds me the whole Warcraft 3 hype among some people from my town. They never player second neither first part, but IT WILL BE AWESOME BECAUSE BLIZZARD is doing it. Reality was different, but target was achieved.Darth Roxor said:I also love how the main character is not even going to be an x-com operative, but an FBI AGENT.
FFS
An X-Com Alliance like SWAT-based shooter would have indeed been interesting.fizzelopeguss said:Game can only be saved if it was like swat 4 where it was mostly breaching and entering and the focus of the game was subduing aliens rather than straight gunning shit down.
This.Darth Roxor said:And what is most absurd about this is, of course, the same old retarded song:
xcom.com said:By setting the game in a first-person perspective, players will be able to feel the tension and fear that comes with combating a faceless enemy that is violently probing and plotting its way into our world.
For fuck's sake... Ask anyone who played Terror From The Deep if he needed FIRST PERSON to feel the tension while raiding an alien base full of tentaculats and mind-controlling aquatoids.
Gollops went next-gen with X-Com3 and Laser Squad Nemesis, so I can't agree with that.Tails said:Well the franchise was raped long time ago, so there is no real need to rage. X-Com made by someone else then Gollops, can't beat the original.
Altar start to focus on other games, the odds that they revive UFO series are pretty low. Those games weren't good anyway.lightbane said:PS: But if they continue updating the "After" series I'm fine.
Big Nose George said:I predict:
Popamole
Autoheal
No resemblance to Xcom1 or 2 for that matter
So exactly like Bioshock, that awesome gaming experience...
POOPOO MCBUMFACE said:Big Nose George said:I predict:
Popamole
Autoheal
No resemblance to Xcom1 or 2 for that matter
So exactly like Bioshock, that awesome gaming experience...
To be fair Bioshock had neither of the former
and yes that's about the one good thing I can say about this. FFS
XCOM is the re-imagining
Multi-headed Cow said:For all the Codex's bitching, Bioshock 1 was excellent.