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Wow. Did NOT see this coming. Awesome! | |
This is good news indeed. Now Firaxis, when you've finished with X-Com could you please take a look at Syndicate? Cheers. Retaining the turn-based combat should allow it to make a better impact on consoles as well. Realtime strategy and consoles are traditionally not the best of bedfellows, but if the combat is to remain turnbased then this could be one to watch. | |
:O For real? Fuck yes, I have big hopes in Firaxis. That said I really hope the 2K Marine wakes up and fix their XCom version(A man can wish!). | |
Whoo, got something new to look forward to. Now just give it a clunky, incomprehensible user interface and it'll be perfect. | |
I'm sorry, I have a bad feeling about this. Now, I loved X-Com. I still even play it occasionally; despite what are quite low-resolution graphics by today's standards, it's still an amazingly deep and compelling experience. But I'm finding it hard to envision a genuinely turn-based game selling on consoles. I'm having a difficult time imagining a console-controller based interface that would work well with turn-based mechanics; it's a problem that the "real-time strategy" genre has struggled hard to overcome on console systems as well. I'm also wondering if some bright person might not try to "update" the series in ways that will dilute what made the originals so enjoyable, much as happened with the original series the first time around. And I'm wondering if, despite all the uproar about the FPS XCom and everyone who professes their undying love for the originals, a new game might come out and, well, simply not get bought. It certainly wouldn't be the first time fan noise didn't translate to sales. Believe me, I hope I'm wrong on every count. | |
Ahmagash, awesome! SO EXCITING! Please, please, please, for the love of pete: make the environments destructible. I demand to get to blow up farmhouses with liberal overuse of explosives in revenge for killing my rookie with a reaction shot. Pleeeaase! | |
ohhh dear ive been here long enough to know whats gonna happen its great that they are giving the old fans something but still im willing to bet some "hardcore" fans are gonna scream 1:NO! NOT A WIDER AUDIENCE!!!!!!!!! NOW ITS RUINED FOREVER!!!!!!!!!! or some "hardcore" pc gamers(the annoying type of harcore gamers who think of console gaming and gamers as inferior to pc gaming and gamers in every single way not the normal kind of pc gamers ) but the majority will hopefull say something along the lines of this at least i really really really hope so. And no before you push the report button this was not mean as insulting to either pc gamers i have seen some real douchebags on this site who said the same thing but about others games or series if you are really like the that you are the one who should be reported | |
you are aware that there are loads of turn based strategy games on consoles right hell even x-com got a release on the psx and it worked fairly well also what is it with all these old strategy games getting ,remade this is what the third game based on x-com jagged alliance is coming back and we have the cartel as well which is the syndicate remake | |
I feel that its relavent to display my own reaction to the new Xcom game they are releasing before this one. Hopefully this remake will bring up back in line with the franchise | |
Well if any company would be able to do it right these days, Firaxis is it. Good to see a proper business decision. While I didn't like the way Civ went with the latest renditions on console and the sort, switching that model to the Xcom theme could make it work. | |
oh dear god please let this be good and work well on consoles(and sell well) besides it's firaxis, those guys made alpha centauri | |
Strategy games on the consoles tend to not do as well because strategy games pretty much require a mouse to even do the most basic things and they haven't found a around that (See: Endwar, Halo Wars). Expect an attempt at Kinect/Move controls that may work or may fall flat. And while it is nice that we're getting a proper X-Com game, I'm still interested in the FPS after what little footage we got. Its setting and enemies made it stand out over other FPSs.
Or as it's better known as: "Civilization in space" Seriously, the only reason we haven't had another Alpha Centari game since it's first expansion is because someone sold the rights to it without thinking. | |
What I find funny is that this new TBS Xcom game is actually now going to be coming out before the FPS version. If anything, that's what should have happened all along. Reinvigorate the franchise with a proper sequel/reboot and then, if it's popular, spin it off into other genres.
Just throwing this out there, but Final Fantasy Tactics and the Disgaea series are actually console exclusive turn based strategy games and are some of the most beloved (and well playing) turn based strategy games ever created. They may not have the menu minutia that XCom has, but there's no reason why the genre can't work on console. RTS, sure I get that, but TBS? | |
Before we get too excited, I'd like to ask everyone to first take a deep breath, let it out, and ask yourselves, "Where's our Covert Action remake?" In all seriousness, couldn't imagine a better team to be working on the strategy game that wrecked my high school GPA. And an honest turn-based squad combat game that doesn't involve putting up with JRPG tropes? You'll have to sew my eyes shut to keep me from watching how this one comes out. | |
I believe this is in order: And hey, even if they screw up this one (which I doubt) there's always Xenonauts coming out as well: It's suddenly a very good time to be an X-COM fan. | |
Right now we have: X-COM the FPS. There's about four or five XCom based games in development at the moment. All I want to know is: How did that happen? Was it something that happened in the collective unconsciousness and everybody got the same idea at the same time? Or did the FPS make everybody go, "Fuck that! We'll make a good XCOM!"? Something to contemplate ... | |
There isn't enough caps in the world to express my wholehearted support of this project. YUHS! | |
Works for me. I picked up the old X-Com game on steam when the FPS was announced and found the UI to be kinda incomprehensible, not because it was too complex, but because I had no idea what all the buttons did. So hopefully a clearer interface will allow me to play it more. Plus I liked Civilization, so that plus a good sci-fi story and setting is okay in my book. Definitely going to be keeping an eye on this one, especially since the shooter looks to be bland with a side of bland with extra bland sauce. | |
Holy mother of God... This just turned into one of the greatest days ever! | |
With this and Cartel, I'm incredibly happy and eagerly await both titles. I'm still slightly skeptical about the press release however, after 2k Marin's claims that they were 'huge fans of the series' and then talked about how they basically hated what made X-COM X-COM in their developer commentaries. | |
Anyone crying over the console release, please, whatever you do, don't call yourself hardcore, because you're not hardcore enough to remember the platforms the original X Com was released on.
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It would send a pretty strong message if the FPS X-Com bombs and the RTS XCom does well. I mean I know which way i'm voting with my dollars! | |
Firaxis will develop it, and this is more than enough to make me look forward to this game. I must admit I never played the originals, but I heard nothing but good things about them, and Firaxis usually deliver wonderful games (is it just me that prefers Alpha Centauri to Civilizations, though? I liked everything about it, and I even felt that the diplomacy was better than current games, despite some saying it was unfair... Maybe I was just lucky?). Anyway, I hope to see this one out soon! | |
Not to be a sour puss but I'm suddenly having flashbacks to that fan megaman legends game being destroyed by capcom right before completion(I don't remember the exact details) I dunno, could the 2k think nimzabaat^ is right and set to sabotage firaxis to get rid of competition? | |
Why are my fellow PC gamers worried about this being "dumbed down"? It's fucking FIRAXIS we're talking about! Granted they over-simplified Civ5 quite a bit last year. But I mean it was still an intelligent, challenging game guys! No point over-reacting. *says that to inevitably no avail. | |
Plus, Civilization Revolution, their console Civilization game, was pretty fun. So yeah, I'm more or less optimistic. | |
Bah, I had the original game on the Amiga (floppy disk version, of course.) Though I must admit to a little envy at the time of my friend's playstation version with its quick loading and flashy cutscenes. But then I wouldn't call myself 'hardcore' either. I am intrigued by the prospect of a new game. It'd be very cool if they could capture the joy of the original. I somehow feel this isn't going to work out, though. | |
Awesome! Many many <3's and +1's go to Firaxis. Love their work with Civ! | |
I find myself cautiously optimistic with this news, even though the games industry has seen fit to validate every curdled lump of cynicism I've developed over the last five years... Only one thing worries me... Do they not realize that "Enemy Unknown" was the subtitle for the first game? Or is it intentionally trying to flare up the nostalgia? Or are we being trolled? I think I need a Fry image macro here... | |
the first game was called ufo: enemy unknown in europe and australia | |
A modern release of an old turn based strategy game, made by a studio whose bread and butter is TBS games... God? This is you, right? Thank you! Sorry for all the blaspheming, really. | |
I really hope this comes off. I love turnbased strategy but its really not fashionable anymore. Fingers crossed. | |
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Oh my god. The guys behind Civilization got their hands on the X-Com license? I just imagined building bases in a Civilization-style universe with actual graphics and almost had to go change my pants. | |
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Firaxis Reveals a "Real" X-Com Remake
Firaxis is working on an all-new, all-different and all-strategy X-Com remake entitled XCom: Enemy Unknown.
It's fair to say that not everyone was thrilled by the news that X-Com was being "reimagined" by 2K Marin into an FPS. Given that the original X-Com is one of the most famous and beloved strategy titles in videogaming history, turning it into yet-another-story-based-shooter that appears to have no connection to the franchise beyond the name unsurprisingly rubbed some people the wrong way. But those people may now rejoice, or at the very least allow themselves a moment of cautious optimism: Firaxis, the studio that gave us Sid Meier's Civilization and one or two other games you may have heard of, is bringing the series back for real.
As revealed by the February cover of Game Informer, the now-unhyphenated XCom: Enemy Unknown will bring the strategy classic back to life, "introducing a wider console audience to what made the storied franchise great in the first place." Enemy Unknown will be a "full-on strategy game" giving players command of a global military force battling invading enemies, keeping governments happy and the population reassured.
"It's been a dream of ours to recreate X-Com with our unique creative vision. We're huge fans of the original game and it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to re-envision a game that is as beloved as X-Com," said Firaxis Games President Steve Martin. "We were careful to keep XCom: Enemy Unknown true to the elements that made X-Com such a revered game while delivering an entirely new story and gameplay experience for both die-hard X-Com fans and newcomers to the franchise."
Isn't this exciting? I'm still looking forward to the XCom shooter and will enjoy it for what it is, but there's no getting around the fact that it's not really X-Com. And if sequels, remakes and "reimaginings" are what we're to be stuck with, then an X-Com do-over is long overdue.
Details will be thin until the February issue hits but it will reportedly include "destructible tactical environments," turn-based combat framed in a real-time strategic environment and a whole lot more. XCom: Enemy Unknown is slated to come out this fall for the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. I'm so excited!
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