[redsniper]

Which, really, I wouldn't mind at all as long as they didn't call it X-COM....

[lostllama]

Oh great, now it's a Men in Black video game.

Hmm, yeah. Actually I sense a possible Dark Skies influence (even though that was set in the '60s, not the '50s).

[NGTM-1R]

I can haz **** all over canon like I'm blizzard directing WoW? (X-Com doesn't exist before the first game's start date; they specifically mention each nation tried to solve the problem seperately before that for several years.) This one's going straight down the memory hole like Enforcer at this rate.

[Colonol Dekker]

It can't be worse than the first MIB game.
 
 
Stupid POS.

[NGTM-1R]

It can't be worse than the first MIB game.

There is ALWAYS a way it can be worse.

[Nemesis6]

It can't be worse than the first MIB game.
 
 
Stupid POS.

KEEP TABBING X TO SUBSIST IN YOUR DELUSION! 

[Mongoose]

I know nothing about the X-Com series itself, but this looks like an interesting premise from my independent standpoint.

[Colonol Dekker]

Get it off steam for two quid.

[headdie]

I know nothing about the Com series itself, but this looks like an interesting premise from my independent standpoint.

UFO Enemy unknown (not to be confused with ceniga's UFO series) is still the best squad based strategy ever, the UFO series is good but it over complicates some aspects imho.

X-Com Terror from the deep (UFO Enemy unknown 's sequel) is basically the same again but a lot harder
X-Com Apocalypse is pretty good

not played any of the others though

[NGTM-1R]

Enforcer is reasonably amusing as a run-and-gun shooter, but as an X-COM game, it's like meeting the Antichrist. I can't get Interceptor to run, but I gather it's basically a very poor TIE Fighter clone with a lot of weapons variety, most of which is pointless.

[StarSlayer]

Umm Yeah...

[SpardaSon21]

I don't know what that actually was, but it certainly wasn't X-COM.

[redsniper]

Thing is, it actually looks pretty cool. I just wish they weren't slapping the X-COM name on it.

[mxlm]

The part where it looks pretty cool is good enough for me.

You can always go play Xenonauts.

[Nemesis6]

So it's Bioshock except on land... That's sad.

[Grizzly]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/06/16/xgood/

Sums up my feelings.

(There is also an /xbad/, which is bassicly... what everyone else thinks I guess.

[NGTM-1R]

The problem with that is your points are completely invalid in regards to how to make a good X-Com game, and make stupid assumptions about why we're upset with them for what we're getting. (So does xbad, for that matter.)

I don't care it's an FPS. I don't care it's not turn-based.

I care that any idiot who's watched the trailer knows this guy is talking out of his ass when he proposes it's going to be SWAT 4 with aliens. I remember what SWAT 4 was like, and I remember the demos and trailers for SWAT 4. SWAT 4 with aliens is more or less exactly what an X-Com FPS should have been, or failing that, a recent Battlefield game on very high difficulty.

This is not remotely like that. Even the trailer shows it.

[BlueFlames]

You know what?  X-COM is like The Matrix.  There were and still are no sequels.  There were a few cash-ins and a couple of half-hearted attempts to remake the original, but really, there's UFO Defense/Enemy Unknown.  Everything else either pales in comparison, sucks in comparison, sucks (full stop), or in the case of the latest game, is totally disconnected from X-COM in all but name.

It does say something about the original, though, that there's still developers and publishers trying to cash in on the name, nine years and however many bad follow-ons later.

[headdie]

You know what?  X-COM is like The Matrix.  There were and still are no sequels.  There were a few cash-ins and a couple of half-hearted attempts to remake the original, but really, there's UFO Defense/Enemy Unknown.  Everything else either pales in comparison, sucks in comparison, sucks (full stop), or in the case of the latest game, is totally disconnected from X-COM in all but name.

It does say something about the original, though, that there's still developers and publishers trying to cash in on the name, nine years and however many bad follow-ons later.

that's because there is still nothing like you first enemy unknown night mission, I remember playing the PC Format supplied demo first which was a night time terror mission against the snakes and their pet crysilids only armed with ballistic weapons, listening to that awesome (and unnerving) plasma sound effect and civy screams was enough to get my 10 year old heart racing back in the day.

[TrashMan]

Time to go threaten the UFO:AI and Xenonauts people again to force them to speed it up.

How about helping them out produce content for the game instead?