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Title: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: Scotty on July 25, 2013, 11:18:13 am
A heads up for all the XCOM lovers among us.  Just spotted this baby on Steam, in the midst of a kickstarter-esque approach to a release.  Set in the early 60s, it's a third person squad based tactical combat game that, from the view of the gameplay available on the trailer, looks like it borrowed a whole lot from Mass Effect on the combat side.  It's still XCOM, and some of the baddies are immediately recognizable, like Sectoids.

It's not turn based as far as I can tell, so it's not going to play the same as most XCOM games, but it looks interesting nonetheless, if only for the Cold War era scenery and fun times.
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: SpardaSon21 on July 25, 2013, 11:26:40 am
I believe this is the 2k Games shooter remake of XCOM nobody wanted.
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: Scourge of Ages on July 25, 2013, 11:28:46 am
After a whole bunch of re-imaginings, it's definitely come a long way from the FPS versus weird blobs that it started out as. I'm cautiously optimistic that this will turn out well, hoping that it'll be the closest thing to X-COM: Alliance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM:_Alliance) we'll ever see.

I believe this is the 2k Games shooter remake of XCOM nobody wanted.

Well that's how it was at first, it's looking a lot better now.
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 25, 2013, 11:34:34 am
Well that's how it was at first, it's looking a lot better now.

It's amazing what turning the game into an editorially mandated disaster can do?
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: Scourge of Ages on July 25, 2013, 11:49:35 am
It's amazing what turning the game into an editorially mandated disaster can do?

Sometimes! I won't be pre-ordering it for certain, but if reviews are good I'd be interested eventually.
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: Fury on July 25, 2013, 12:52:55 pm
I've seen quite a few gameplay videos of this game (just look for them in youtube) and it feels very much like Mass Effect 3. But I kinda got the feeling that gameplay isn't quite as smooth as in ME3 and there is A LOT of meaningless dialogue that was apparently added just because. And it doesn't have multiplayer either. It's good because that means all focus is on single-player, but it's also bad because it'll be quickly forgotten. I might have bought this game if it had co-op multiplayer, but now it has to stand on single-player alone and honestly, I'm not impressed.
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: Torchwood on July 25, 2013, 04:22:01 pm
I'm curious as to whether they'll actually make a good game out of it. It won't be easy to convince die-hard X-Com fans after the "BETRAYAL!" reaction following the announcement that X-Com will be made a shooter.
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: FireSpawn on August 03, 2013, 05:50:23 pm
I'm curious as to whether they'll actually make a good game out of it. It won't be easy to convince die-hard X-Com fans after the "BETRAYAL!" reaction following the announcement that X-Com will be made a shooter.

But isn't there already an XCOM shoo-  :snipe:
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: FlamingCobra on August 20, 2013, 05:29:10 pm
The game is out. But since nobody's been posting here I guess nobody has it or cares about it.
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: Scourge of Ages on August 20, 2013, 05:46:57 pm
Let's just say I won't pay full price for it.

How are reviews looking?
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: FlamingCobra on August 20, 2013, 06:12:34 pm
6/10

In other words, "not good"
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: Scourge of Ages on August 20, 2013, 06:57:37 pm
6/10

Who's that from? Or is it an average?
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: FlamingCobra on August 21, 2013, 07:55:07 am
6/10

Who's that from? Or is it an average?

GameRankings, GameSpot, and MetaCritic
Title: Re: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Post by: Flak on August 21, 2013, 08:33:31 am
Most complain you can't just save anywhere I think.