[redsniper]

http://kotaku.com/5516654/x+com-is-back

X-Com Is Back!

X-Com, the classic 90's turn-based strategy game pitting mankind against alien invaders, is set to make a comeback as a first-person shooter, courtesy of the 2K studios behind BioShock 2.

I'm... I... I have mixed feelings about this...

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Hopefully this one wont crash if you build up too many assets before winning. 

[TrashMan]

AS a FPS? That ain't X-Com anymore.

[headdie]

what was the ground based shooter they did while the series was still hobbling along about the time they did interceptor

[Qent]

Enforcer?

[Colonol Dekker]

Do you mean the one based around the crew if the PAtton? The one that got blasted across the glaxy by the cydonia bas on mars?  The one that never got released much to the dismay of my brothers and i?



That wasn't enforcer....that was X-Com Alliance

X-Com: Alliance

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X-Com Alliance was a 3d shooter based on the Unreal engine (which features all the latest features of 3d acceleration). The game is squad based, played from a first person perspective. Small on-screen displays at the top of the screen allow you to track your teammates, of which you can have up to four. Multiplayer should be supported, and since the Unreal engine has a client/server model, permanent XCA servers should appear around the games' release.

The game apparently takes place after the first X-Com war. A mission is sent to Cydonia on Mars to retrieve alien artifacts. However, an unexpected dimensional gate transports the X-Com personal sixty light-years away. The X-Com soldiers find themselves in the middle of a war between the Grey Alliance and a race called the Ascidians. X-Com teams up with the friendly Ascidians and attacks the Greys.

The strategic element is still in place. The soldiers' home base is the USS Patton and between missions you will make decisions on retrieval of items, research, outfitting squadrons, and  other mission choices.

Unfortunately, there were a number of setbacks during the production, including the main programmer leaving/being canned from Microprose. At this point, it does not look like the game will ever see the light of day.
 
Game Style:   First Person Squad Based Action Game
System Requirements:   Unknown
Game Release Date:   Unknown

[NGTM-1R]

what was the ground based shooter they did while the series was still hobbling along about the time they did interceptor

Enforcer. I got it off Steam with the others.

Purely as a run-and-gun shooter, it's amusing. Purely as an X-Com game, it's the Antichrist.


Now if somebody built a Call of Duty-esque (or ARMA 2-esque really) X-Com shooter, that would be completely ****ing awesome.

[redsniper]

X-COM: Alliance

Yeah! I remember getting excited about this a long time ago. Hopefully they'll finally be making it. (Though fighting Grays sounds kinda lame)

More likely it'll be a redo of UFO Defense, but with the deep tactical ground battles replaced by FPS maps.

[headdie]

Now if somebody built a Call of Duty-esque (or ARMA 2-esque really) X-Com shooter, that would be completely ****ing awesome.

based on the original that would be awesome, especially if it followed the development tree

[mxlm]

Initial response: what took so ****ing long/**** yes!

[MR_T3D]

Initial response: what took so ****ing long/**** yes!

and then:

[Vrets]

They're only doing this to make the release a Big Entertainment Event. At best, the product will have a few scattered references to X-Com.

Turn-based tactical --> FPS. Gosh, that sounds familiar!

It's akin to Fallout 3. What were the first two games? Who knows, who cares? It's the third installment of something, and therefore "EEEEEPIC."

[redsniper]

oh ****, oh goddammit

While the original game had you as the head of the XCOM agency tasked with protecting Earth from alien invaders (hence the reason why you were planning bases, managing funding), the upcoming shooter will apparently be completely unrelated as you’ll instead be an FBI agent fighting the alien invaders yourself.

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/04/14/new-xcom-game-coming-from-2k-games-2k-re-imagining-classic-xcom-strategy-series-but-will-instead-be-strategic-fps-game-xcom-loyalists-upset/

EDIT: Though I guess playing as Mulder would be kind of cool... it's just not X-COM...

[Shade]

FBI agent vs. Chryssalid. Yeah, that'll work...

[Colonol Dekker]

I thought the whole point of x-com games was. . . . . Well you know, x-com itself?

[karajorma]

You know, if they had half a brain they'd do this Hostile Waters style, mix strategy and FPS together and actually make a game that might please some of the fans of the original game.

[lostllama]

From what I know, the only game that gets across the experience of playing the original X-COM/UFO: Enemy Unknown game is that UFO: Alien Invasion open source game. It's quite good IMO.

[headdie]

You know, if they had half a brain they'd do this Hostile Waters style, mix strategy and FPS together and actually make a game that might please some of the fans of the original game.

as a X-COM amateur nut i would be happy with a pure fps so long as it followed the basic premise of X-COM, arcade or realistic/plausible style of play wouldn't bother me, just give me a chance to shoot sectoids, run screaming from chrysalids, watch hovering UFO lookalike plasma tanks fly over my head cannon blazing and the awe of take out half the map with a blaster launcher.

Flying some intercept missions would be cool to

if you want to really please me do all that and keep the cartoon graphics just update the quality and I would probably be happy to break my normal £30 per game rule

[NGTM-1R]

From what I know, the only game that gets across the experience of playing the original X-COM/UFO: Enemy Unknown game is that UFO: Alien Invasion open source game. It's quite good IMO.

There is sort of TFTD and Apocalypse in turnbased.


All right, it's torches and pitchforks time. Locate the 2k headquarters, brethern! WE MARCH!

[Colonol Dekker]

I think the communities energies have been spent/are being saved for the rush which is due anytime soon.