XCOM UFO Defense making a return in 2011

[Reschke]

Well I was just reading up on some stuff and found out that XCOM will be back as a game released by 2K for the PC and the Xbox360. It will be a shooter this time around with the research and other stuff still in it from what I have read but there isn't a whole lot of information out right now.

Here is a trailer and a preview.

http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/brand-new-trailer-for-xcom

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/xcom-e3-2010-preview

[thundabooge]

WOOOTTT!!!   XCOM is my fave game of all time!! 

[allaire]

Ugh thought that game was supposed to be about aliens.  What's worse is they are making it a FPS instead of a turn based strategy.

[Reschke]

Yep I agree but it is still about aliens and apparently it is based in the early part of the XCOM beginnings.

[BoilerDown]

I loved the old game, played it so many times... I deliberately didn't win the game most times I replayed it so that I could make it last longer.  Hopefully this game can even partially live up to the old standard.

[Soulyss]

I have to say I'm intrigued.  I cringed a little when I heard they were remaking it as a FPS and never paid much attention to any further details.  But after reading the article I'm definitely intrigued, I'm going to have to try and keep tabs on this one.

Thanks for the post Reschke.

[Tac]

just seeing the preview makes my skin crawl.

ruin for the xcom brand.


electric zap guns? sims-like graphics? kiddie game style 'grab the evidence' ?

sigh.

[Reschke]

If you are looking for an XCOM fix that works in DosBox on Vista or Win7 enviroments Steam is selling all the XCOM games in a bundle for like $12 bucks or something ridiculous.

[Tac]

but only the first xcom game is worth playing. the rest were horrid.

if its  xcom1 altered to work in today's fast systems then it alone is worth the 12 bucks.

[bozon]

NNNNNOOOOO!!!!!!!

After Fallout, now they did it to XCOM. This is not a sequal, it is nothing more than branding and marketing a completely unrelated game.

Next it will be "Chess II: the fall of the king". Now in first person, because turn based is so 1990. America in the 1950's is recovering from the apocalyptic invasion of the black pieces. A single white pawn takes it upon itself to save the white peo... (sorry, too racist) the other king from an inevitable faith. You will face up to 8 pawns of the black realm, knights, religious freaks with OCD that will only step on a certain color tiles and mobile fortifications. You may advance from pawn to a queen (yuck) and acquire new weapons and abilities such as the deadly two-forward-one-right knight secret move.

Oh come on! enough of this! 
In the mean time, the last thing worth playing in the old style is UFO alien invasion. Open source and runs well on linux:
http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/News

[Reschke]

NNNNNOOOOO!!!!!!!
In the mean time, the last thing worth playing in the old style is UFO alien invasion. Open source and runs well on linux:
http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/News

Those are some sweet looking rides that the good guys show up in. Might have to check this one out and see if I can get used to it. I was up until 4am this morning playing XCOM in dosbox...talk about getting your butt handed to you over and over again.

[allaire]

Yes the aliens seem to have freaking laser sights on their weapons.  Just remember though that you have a limitless "supply" of soldiers.

[Reschke]

DAMN Bozon give a guy a little warning...I installed that version this morning and have gotten my butt handed to me MANY times in the first few hours. I lost a drop ship full of veteran troopers on the way to a terror mission when they got bounced by an alien ship of some type that smoked my Saracen and Stiletto that were flying escort...something I always did back in UFO and TFTD just as a precaution. Lets just say that then when they invaded my base about 24 hours later that I barely walked away from that one and then 72 hours later I lost the only three troops I had left and then 24 hours after that I lost my main base and all the research to an attack which wiped me out.

[AKH]

Aliens was closer to Alien than this is to the original. 

[bozon]

DAMN Bozon give a guy a little warning...

HEHE, my first go was a disaster as well. I lost the second to failing to protect the civilians. Slowly improving...
Damn addictive game.