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[GlyphGryph]

I liked Bioshock 2.

Okay, okay, it wasn't THAT bad. But still, they were standing on the shoulders of giants, you gotta admit.

[Cajoes]

It's not that I mind FPSrs but every time X-com has attempted to stray from the tactical squaddy-chessy-shooty formula*, it hasn't exactly turned out well.. To quote: "Enforcer."

*or International-Para-Military-Organization-Management-Simulation

So.. X-bawks exclusive.. I don't even...

[Zangi]

Trying to use a brand name to sell a PC game to the unsuspecting 360 masses.

[Xotes]

I'm honestly looking forward to it. I know, I know, pissing against the tide and all that, but I really am looking forward to EFF-BEE-EYE against MALEVOLENT OIL-BALLS and WEIRD GEOMETRY (amongst other aliens) shenanigans.

[Soulwynd]

Sorry, but they probably fucked that up as well now.

[Jake]

The oil-slick things look a little bit like the Micronoid Aggregate things from Apocalypse, if you squint, and behave somewhat like Brainsuckers. An optimistic interpretation is that the reboot is going to present an Elseworld where the enemy faction from Apocalypse contact the Cydonians much earlier, take a fancy to Earth and try to get a foothold before we have the technology to put up effective resistance. Not the best premise I've ever heard for an alternate continuity, but good stories have been produced from far worse.

There's only so far a good story goes to make up for uninteresting gameplay, however, and the footage in the trailer on the official site didn't fill me with confidence. I would love to see a squad-based tactical FPS in the same vain as SWAT 4 or the Rainbow Six games set in the X-Com universe, but we didn't see much in the way of small-unit tactics in that video, did we?

[Sowelu]

I would love to see a squad-based tactical FPS in the same vain as SWAT 4 or the Rainbow Six games set in the X-Com universe, but we didn't see much in the way of small-unit tactics in that video, did we?

I just got Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 this last weekend, and dug up this thread to post the same thing.  Which...apparently I got beaten to.  Not my usual genre, but busting down doors with two other guys to hose down some sectoids or autofiring heavy plasma blindly back over a crate at a Muton (before he vaporizes the crate) sounds like great fun.

[Cthulhu]

I was excited for it and won't beat the stain on the ground that used to be the "Nothing can be as good as <classic game> and anything trying is the devil" horse.

The 360 exclusive thing killed it for me though.  Oh well :s

[Fikes]

PAH!

I have a framed X-Com Alliance poster. Comming soon to Windows 95!

I have nothing else to add, and feel ashmed for bumping this thread.

PS, we should play Rainbow 6 3 some time. It is on steam cheap I believe.

[nenjin]

The game gets a date, March 2012.

And here's their trailer they'll be showing around E3:

http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/x-com-project/1172488p1.html

Still not that impressed. I want to like it, but when they say "tactical experience" all I hear and see is "blah blah blah FPS, blah blah blah."

[jmancube]

Honestly, I would really go for a FPS/RPG/Strategy hybrid where the combat is first person, but you have to develop the weapons and your team like in the original. Sort of like a strategy game that then shifts to a squad based tactics shooter whenever you encounter aliens or something. I kinda doubt that this would be near to what the game is when it comes out, but hey, it would be awesome.

If the game isn't total crap when it comes out, I'll probably buy it cause I like the idea of it. But don't get me wrong, I don't expect anything amazing out of it. That sort of optimism just leads to disappointment. I don't mind FPS's from time to time, but I doubt this game will be a great game to buy for complex strategy...

[nenjin]

Honestly, I would really go for a FPS/RPG/Strategy hybrid where the combat is first person, but you have to develop the weapons and your team like in the original. Sort of like a strategy game that then shifts to a squad based tactics shooter whenever you encounter aliens or something. I kinda doubt that this would be near to what the game is when it comes out, but hey, it would be awesome.

I'd really appreciate something like this, deeply. A real blend of the genres.

This doesn't look anything like that however. If it's got regenerating health at all, it's already lost the lethality that made the first one so nerve wracking and interesting to play. And your whole team looks like a bunch of AI mooks too.

[Soulwynd]

We're talking about a con-fucking-sole game here.

They've already alienated any x-com fan they might have had, so they're going for the CoDKids with shoot and level up!

/rage

[Shadowgandor]

Wow, that trailer looked really generic. It looks kinda..dull.

[Xotes]

If what the devs have said about it is anything to go off of, they just pasted X-COM onto the title for brand-awareness stuff.

I'll still buy it because, hell, it looks fun.

You guys getting angry about this need to chill out, geez.