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There are two XCOM games coming out this year

Originally posted by jalek moye
There are two XCOM games coming out this year

Yeah one is a FPS and this one is more like the old games which i'll be staying clear from.

Yes, the old games were I think squad-based and base-defence RTS games. When the developers announced the reboot would be a 3rd-person shooter, a complete 180 in terms of gameplay the fans were ****ing pissed as all hell. Here is Spoony's hilariously over the top reaction to it at PAX:

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The reaction was so bad they made the second game to appease the fans.

Whoops as soon as i saw the thread title I thought that it was the real time shooter that they were putting out. I am certainly going to get the RTS version of this thread. The video got me all hyped.

So it's supposed to come out on September 1st 2012. I wonder if that huge alien than bursts through the window and smashes one of the human soldiers is of the Muton race? Speaking of which, I wonder if the Ethereals, Snakemen, Floaters and the other alien races as well as their terror weapons will be in this one? I hope that once you research the alien tech that you will be able to build fusion weapons, I used to love leveling entire crash sites with fusion bombs. I can't wait to get my hands on this game. What pulled me into the original was the low print run of games that were produced which made it a real sleeper. I recall there only being one copy of X-Com UFO defense at my local gaming store, and the thoughts of passing it up because I thought that it was just a crap title. I was so wrong.

Whoever else uses Steam they have alot of the old X-com games on special for the weekend.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Whoever else uses Steam they have alot of the old X-com games on special for the weekend.


I have an original PS1 X-Com UFO Defense that I play on my PS3. Unfortunately I lack the cash at the moment to buy any of the older X-Com games, but if I did I probably would buy the original Terror from the Deep title.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Yeah one is a FPS and this one is more like the old games which i'll be staying clear from.

Oh I'll be steering clear of the FPS one. I LOVED the original game and I'm insanely happy this game is coming.
When I found out about Xcom being a FPS it was Shadowrun all over again. I punched a freakin wall.

I suppose i could always give the old ones another go since i only played a demo back in the day and how the hell to play it.

Originally posted by Kazenji
I suppose i could always give the old ones another go since i only played a demo back in the day and how the hell to play it.

To be honest just jump into the new one. The old one even though it had a great style and execution, was frustrating as heck. Very similar to Jagged Alliance. But harder. It also got monotonous after a while.

From what I've seen the new game seems to fix the originals flaws whilst retaining all the things that worked.

Looking forward to X-Com. Funny thing is, I saw BOTH trailers for X-Com games and is it just me or are both games completely different in terms of timeline/lore/look?

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I hope the soldiers are stronger in this remake, God they were weak in the old games. One shot and they're dead and they're wearing all that armor

Originally posted by Kazenji
I hope the soldiers are stronger in this remake, God they were weak in the old games. One shot and they're dead and they're wearing all that armor Well now you can upgrade their stats this time arounds so they aren't laughably weak.

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Man, this looks really good. I think this is going to be a buy for me, which is terrible because I suck at TBS.

I mastered the original game. And damn I'm hoping this corrects all the mistakes the past one made.

Originally posted by Kazenji
I hope the soldiers are stronger in this remake, God they were weak in the old games. One shot and they're dead and they're wearing all that armor

Part of XCOM was the soldiers being easily killable. Hence the alien invasion. It was your organizations objective to eventually turn them into super soldiers through tech, experience and psionics.

Also I've seen no women in this game! I want babes on my team!

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Those customers had no idea. Solomans a funny guy.

Word is that this game is awesome.

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DEF getting this game once I have time to get into another game again.

Just started playing the game.

This game is fun!

Just finished the game. A bit short, tbh. But fun overall. Still, given a bit more development time, this woulda been a contender for strat GoTY. Something tells me they didn't really expect this game to do that well overall (maybe on a small niche market) and just threw it together in a hurry.

Originally posted by Nibedicus
Just finished the game. A bit short, tbh. But fun overall.

Now play on the harder difficulty settings.

Originally posted by Nibedicus
Something tells me they didn't really expect this game to do that well overall (maybe on a small niche market) and just threw it together in a hurry.

From what i've read it was a small dev team 50/60 people involved with the remake.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Now play on the harder difficulty settings.

Doing Classic right now on my replay. Gotta say, things are a lot tougher now (grenades are my best friend so far...)

Originally posted by Kazenji
From what i've read it was a small dev team 50/60 people involved with the remake.

Yeap. Hope they realize what a possible gold mine (seeing as it hits quite a bit of the niche market of ppl that are tired of the usual FPS/3rd person shooter design of AAA games) they have here and commit a larger budget and work on the expansion ASAP.

Originally posted by Nibedicus
Doing Classic right now on my replay. Gotta say, things are a lot tougher now (grenades are my best friend so far...)

Grenades kill weapon pieces though, though they are killers regardless.


Originally posted by Nibedicus
Yeap. Hope they realize what a possible gold mine (seeing as it hits quite a bit of the niche market of ppl that are tired of the usual FPS/3rd person shooter design of AAA games) they have here and commit a larger budget and work on the expansion ASAP.

Can't wait for future upgrades. Voices, scientific research and levels. And hopefully weapons especially ship upgrades.

The old version had so much more to offer even though it was an older game. Multiple bases, enhancing soldier's Will, smarter opponents, better robotic scouts ect. I hope the upgrades enhance the gameplay.

There's some DLC coming out for this


must be with the Australian Xbox charts, This game was on it and now its been replaced with Medal Of Honour: Warfighter.......what the hell is wrong with the world.

Got it, loved it, and will never get rid of it. This game is good, but some of the things that were removed from it should have remained in it. Overall it gets a solid 8/10 from me.

Hopefully they do Apocalypse next. That was the best one out of the trilogy

My troops finally overtook the alien base in the Dominican Republic.

Yeah so they made a new one that is much better than Enemy Unknown called Enemy Within. I'm playing it right now. Much harder. It's pretty much Enemy Unknown but revamped to include cybernetic implants, Mec remodeling of your troops limbs to allow for them to be tougher, and stronger. The enemies are much cooler, and they added another enemy faction called Exalt. Exalt tries to undermine the X-Com program by sabotaging your research among other things. They also added new maps, so that you don't feel like you're always playing in the same area. All in all, it's a much better game. I would give it a solid 10/10, but I've noticed a few glitches that sometime slow down the game. If not for that I'd give it the 10/10.

The reason for my score, is mostly due to there not being another game like this at all, so it gets extra points for originality. The comic book companies should try to make a game based on the engine that is being used here.

Originally posted by Stoic


The reason for my score, is mostly due to there not being another game like this at all, so it gets extra points for originality. The comic book companies should try to make a game based on the engine that is being used here.

For what? A SHIELD game?

Originally posted by Lek Kuen
For what? A SHIELD game?

Nah, any game would work here. You see it's a tactical strategy game that is also turn based. it would be perfect for an Avengers, JLA, X-Men.. etc type of game. All that they would have to do was implement all of the elements that you see in comics and that's it. You would use the hero's powers just like you use the weapons and powers in X-Com. It would breathe new life into the also ran, and stale ideas that have been used over, and over again. Play it, and you may see what I'm thinking.

Anyways, if I ever get into making games, I'll certainly keep this in mind for a comic book type of game.

I'm trying to decide if i should get this or Red dead redemption, What do you guys think?

Originally posted by thanos-prime
I'm trying to decide if i should get this or Red dead redemption, What do you guys think?

Not really the same game, but I would get this one first because of rarity reasons. They just didn't mass produce this gem the way that they did Red Dead Redemption. In other words get this one first, because RDR will be much easier to find. The only thing that I can say, is that this game is awesomely superior to the original. And it's so much harder, which makes for fantastic replay value. Shit I just researched the heavy laser, and got a rail gun that I can mount on my Mec units. Very cool.

Just had an awesome seemingly overwhelming base battle. They broke in somehow, and replaced staff members with their own shadow ops. I thought that chess was strategic, but it really has nothing on this. I'm playing on easy difficulty, and it's like playing on hard in the old game. I'm pissed though because I lost one of my top snipers in the fight. Now I need more Meld in order to make a new one. Meld is used to add cybernetic implants to your soldiers, in case anyone was wondering.

If anyone plays this game, make sure you level all of your soldiers up, because if you don't, and your base is attacked, you don't get to pick and choose who is on the team, the game randomly picks them for you (yes you may get nothing but rookies). Another thing that you don't want to do is rush it, and research everything before your soldiers are of a suitable level. I've noticed that the more you research things, the more the game puts advanced enemies out against you.

The Mec soldiers are strong as hell, I just punched a hole in a Muton berserker. These guys have nearly 20 health cells, that's huge if you compare them to regular Mutons that only have about 8 health cells. Awesome game.

This game is free with games with gold right now. Holy hell its fun

I just got set loose into a huge map in Australia where we were tasked with saving the locals in the middle of an invasion. Absolutely epic. I customized my whole team, so having anyone at risk is pretty heart pounding. I ended up losing half of them, including one of my favorites. Luckily, I got to keep my top two alive. Absolutely insane round.

Also, the second one was announced for consoles in September.

Its on the Vita now, if anyone cares.