"Hello!
I'm Julian Gollop, the
designer of the
original X-COM series.
Now
I'm returning to the genre that
I created - turn-based tactics, world based strategy and a terrifying alien menace.
In the near future, Earth is devastated by Pandora virus released from melting permafrost.
Human civilization is reduced to warring factions and isolated havens.
You play the role of a leader of a small group of soldiers, scientists and engineers brought together
by the Phoenix project, an organization prepared to protect Earth in a time of peril.
The pandora virus incorporates human and animal DNA to create horrific mutations.
You'll face a constant evolving threat that will mutate and adapt to your tactics.
The intelligence of these new hybrids will present you with new challanges in every battle.
You will also face huge and terrifying monsters that require tactical thinking and coordination to bring
down.
The
geoscape returns as your strategic view with even more detail and importance.
Aliens operate under cover of a dark microbial mist rolling across the surface of the globe, harboring all manner of horrors.
They control the sea,
you control the skies and you fight for the land.
Interceptions take on a whole new dimension with gargantuan alien walkers that require a combination of vehicles and
special squads to bring them down.
But you don't have to just contend with aliens. Different human factions control numerous havens, resources and technology.
As the leader of the Phoenix group, you'll have to negociate, barter, make alliances or war with these factions in order to further your cause.
With a large varieties of mission objectives, destructible battlefields and a dynamic world,
Phoenix Point will take the genre to a whole new level.
I founded Snapshot games three years ago, a year later we released our first title, the critically acclaimed Chaos Reborn.
I have assembled a highly talented team of developers at our ??? studio and we have been working on Phoenix Point for a year.
Now we need your help to make it one of the
greatest strategy games ever made.
Please support our campaign and join us for the ride.
*
batteries for controllers not included "
UnstableVoltage
I am sorry we schmucks that saw Gollop's promise to take
his genre to a whole new level and imagined X-COM on steroids^3 didn't also fancied that between the pitched lines that meant catering to nuxcom enthusiasts to a such high degree that you brought yourselves down to copying that game's style, designing a UI with controller support in mind and copying the UI even to the color scheme.
And god knows what other shit you'll pull behind the reasoning and the excuse that "hardcore X-COM fans now are in their 40's, have kids to feed and utilities to pay and constitute only 1#% of our targeted market!"
At least the whoring with the UI and art style blew up in your face so hard that maybe got you with one foot on the ground.
The coup de grace for PP would be if Firaxis decides to launch yet another expansion to their game (there is at least one down the barrel) around when PP also launches.
Because then a rabid X-COM undesirable fanboi that can identify Gollop's mugshot from a thousand others will increase in market value hundredfold.
