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Seriously. Firaxis.http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/01/05/february-cover-revealed-xcom-enemy-unknown.aspxThis is the announcement you've been waiting for: One of the most beloved strategy titles of all time re-imagined by one of the best strategy studios in the world. Firaxis Games' XCOM: Enemy Unknown introduces a wider console audience to what made the storied franchise great in the first place.
Unlike 2K Marin's previously announced XCOM shooter, which sparked tempers among longtime fans for turning its back on the series' cerebral roots, this title is a full-on strategy game that puts players in command of a global anti-alien defense force. XCOM's leader needs a worldwide perspective where threats are identified, populations reassured, and national leaders mollified – but a tactical mind is just as critical considering every shot XCOM's soldiers fire on the battlefield is under the player's turn-based control.
"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 Steve Martin, president of Firaxis Games. "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."
If you're lost, you can find out what all the fuss over the original X-COM is in the in-depth Classic GI feature we printed a few months ago (now available online for the first time), which includes rare insight from series creator Julian Gollop.
The huge feature in February's Game Informer goes into all the gory details of XCOM's destructible tactical environments, the interaction between the real-time strategic view and the turn-based combat, how the XCOM organization improves its capabilities as the war rages on, and much more. |
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schild
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I don't know if anyone is left at Firaxis that can pull this off.
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koro
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If they can pull it off, I will forgive them for every shitty thing about Civ V forever.
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Sky
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I don't know if anyone is left at Firaxis that can pull this off.
This. Hopefully it's not some lame mod like Colonization ended up being. And this: Firaxis Games' XCOM: Enemy Unknown introduces a wider console audience to what made the storied franchise great in the first place.
Firaxis Games' XCOM: Enemy Unknown introduces a wider console audience.
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Damnit I missed that part. Now I want to punch a puppy.
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koro
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It's turn-based strategy. I can't get worked up over it being on a console when Japanese companies have been doing TBS games (some squad-based, even!) on consoles A-OK for close to two decades.
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schild
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It's turn-based strategy. I can't get worked up over it being on a console when Japanese companies have been doing TBS games (some squad-based, even!) on consoles A-OK for close to two decades.
So has America. Just not recently. |
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It means a godfuckingawful UI at the very least.
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Teleku
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Eh, console thing doesn't bug me. Games like Xcom actually work really well with a controller, maybe even better actually. Still, doesn't mean they wont make a PC version.
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sickrubik
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Twitter made me aware of soemthing TRULY MADDENING. "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." They ditched the hyphen. D: This relaunch is BS. （╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ |
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Mrbloodworth
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I'm looking forward to it. I have been playing a lot of X-COM: Terror from the Deep recently. I also like CIV:Revolution and CIV:V.
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Yegolev
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It means a godfuckingawful UI at the very least.
You're planning on getting it on Steam, aren't you?  |
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That is where I repurchased all the originals  |
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Paelos
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The console thing ruined it.
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Shrike
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The console thing ruined it.
The hell you say. I still have my PSX version of X-COM: UFO Defense. It was a superior port compared to the original PC game. The only caveat was you'd better have the PSX mouse, or you were probabaly going to blow yourself up when setting blaster bomb waypoints. A lot. It even came in a Saturn jewelcase. I mean, how cool is that? |
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Trippy
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It means a godfuckingawful UI at the very least.
It'll be hard for Firaxis to make a UI worse than their normal standard but I'm sure they are up to the challenge. |
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Ratman_tf
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At least someone is aknowleding that X-Com was a great turn based tactics game, not a herp-derp IP to slap as a title on a retarted FPS.
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Sky
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The only caveat was you'd better have the PSX mouse
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Yegolev
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That's a big fucking caveat.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Simond
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The console thing ruined it. Why? |
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Rendakor
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The console thing ruined it. Why? Not this argument again. |
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Yegolev
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Every time.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Paelos
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The console thing ruined it. Why? Because you touch yourself. That's why. |
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Ironwood
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Gee, if we had the console argument, you'd get things ruined for you all the time.
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eldaec
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Also stopped reading at "console".
I had no issue with the deus ex or syndicate console games - but this is silly.
Totally off topic, someone should make MULE for consoles - that could actually work.
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Totally off topic, someone should make MULE for consoles - that could actually work.
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Simond
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I had no issue with the deus ex or syndicate console games - but this is silly. Why? |
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eldaec
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Deus Ex & Syndicate are good because of interesting level design, not because of stat management, complex controls, or anything that will get ripped out on a console.
Making UFO for consoles is as silly as making Rainbow 6 for consoles.
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I actually played X-Com on the PS1. I didn't have a PC in those days (Amiga FTW!) so I picked it up as well as the PS1 mouse. Worked a charm.  |
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Margalis
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I don't see any reason why X-Com couldn't work on console except that the developers would likely see the need to consolize it.
At its heart the tactical part of X-Com isn't particular different from Tactics Ogre or Fire Emblem or whatever, and some of the people who worked on X-Com made a spiritual successor on the GBA. Now that said I assume the thinking will be that console implies dunce players and the game design will have to be "streamlined." But mechanically I don't see why X-Com wouldn't work.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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eldaec
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There is no technical reason you couldn't do a real rainbow 6 game on a console either. As you say this is really about me not trusting developers to design a real X-com game than anything else.
Also me not owning a console and having no real desire to play it on a tv ofc.
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Yeah, pretty much that. More I think about it, Xcom probably would have been better to play using a console controller rather than mouse. It was really easy to miss click shit in that damn game.
Unlike Rainbow 6, which is an FPS, and you'll never ever make a FPS that doesn't work better with a mouse as the controller.
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