New X-Com game from 2K Boston in the works for consoles????

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

X-Com fans, retain your guarded optimism. 2K bought the X-Com rights last year and it appears that they may be developing a new game............

http://kotaku.com/386976/ken-levine-and-co-at-work-on-new-x+com-game

[Greyroofoo]

Please don't get my hopes up.

[Honolulu_Blue]

I heard about this a while ago. It's in very promising hands, but for consoles? Really?

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

I heard about this a while ago. It's in very promising hands, but for consoles? Really?

The number of companies that are willing to make PC games continue to drop dramatically. You know it's a lousy market when EA Sports stops making their franchise title for the PC. Granted, Madden sucks, but that never stopped them from making PC games before.

[Abe Sargent]

Ouch

[Honolulu_Blue]

Well, they just announced the new XCOM game. Not only is it for consoles, but it's a f*cking first person shooter.

X-COM to be Developed by Irrational’s Red-Headed Stepchild | Tap-Repeatedly.com (http://tap-repeatedly.com/?p=6571&cpage=1#comment-3708)

[Greyroofoo]

They were making a X-Com FPS when the series got canned before.

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This won't end well (though I hope it does).

[gstelmack]

Well, Steam has the original with a built-in DOSBOX config that works fine on my Win7 box, so I'll just keep playing that.

[PurdueBrad]

I will say, if the combat system is both squad-based and setup similar to the Fallout 3 system, then it could work and work well. I would hope that they maintain the business and research side of things as well, but we'll see. I think they could make a good game with those above ideas.

But I'll remain pessimistic until I see otherwise.

[Greyroofoo]

IGN Article (http://pc.ign.com/articles/108/1083689p1.html)


Not much detail is yet available about the game. The press release states you'll play from the perspective of an FBI agent trying to wipe out a mysterious threat. We'll update as soon as we know more.


An FBI agent? Why do I get visions of the X-Files when I think about this game now.

[bhlloy]

"yes this is all great but where are mulder and scully? what do you mean we bought the wrong fricking franchise?"

Seriously though, I have no idea why you would pay for the X-Com series and then make it into a generic FPS where you are an FBI agent. That's like buying a Porsche and tearing off all the branding and distinctive bodywork and making it look like a VW.

[Icy]

Well, Steam has the original with a built-in DOSBOX config that works fine on my Win7 box, so I'll just keep playing that.

Please describe fine, i would love to play the series again but my issue in the past, a few years ago and on Windows XP, was that everything moved to fast due to modern cpu clocks, time past really fast, as were animations etc.

Don't you have that issues in the Steam version? if not i'll purchase it for sure.

[Greyroofoo]

Please describe fine, i would love to play the series again but my issue in the past, a few years ago and on Windows XP, was that everything moved to fast due to modern cpu clocks, time past really fast, as were animations etc.

Don't you have that issues in the Steam version? if not i'll purchase it for sure.

Out of curiosity have you tried DOSBox? Its lets you set the emulated cpu speed. The first 3 XCom games work fine for me running it. I think the 4th runs fine in Windows XP but includes a very annoying and possibly gamekilling bug.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Please describe fine, i would love to play the series again but my issue in the past, a few years ago and on Windows XP, was that everything moved to fast due to modern cpu clocks, time past really fast, as were animations etc.

Don't you have that issues in the Steam version? if not i'll purchase it for sure.

I have X-Com on Steam and it runs as smooth and clean as ever. Nothing is hyper-fast, the sound works. It's as close to playing it back in 1994 (or whatever) as you can get. Super cheap to boot and, while I had only played a few months in, I didn't experience any crashes.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Yeah, I got like 6 X-Com games off Steam a few weeks ago for $2. It was amazing.

[Atocep]

This doesn't get me the least bit excited. If you're going to make an XCom game it needs to be a turn based strategy. Anything else is just cashing in on the XCom name.

All this game is going to do is get me even more pissed off that no one has come close to capturing the greatness of the original.

[Groundhog]

This doesn't get me the least bit excited. If you're going to make an XCom game it needs to be a turn based strategy. Anything else is just cashing in on the XCom name.

All this game is going to do is get me even more pissed off that no one has come close to capturing the greatness of the original.

Aye. It's bizzare really. I mean, the X-Com universe is hardly very interesting, story-wise (aliens invading! oh noez!), yet the last couple of X-Com releated releases have been mediocre (or worse) forrays into other genres that are of little interest to fans of those genres OR fans of the original X-Com games.

I mean seriously, X-Com exists as a brand because of the original turn-based games! Why not, you know, release another turn-based game! But hey, what would I know, I'm just a consumer in the target demographic for an X-Com game.

[mckerney]

This doesn't get me the least bit excited. If you're going to make an XCom game it needs to be a turn based strategy. Anything else is just cashing in on the XCom name.

I don't even get that part though, is the X-Com name really one to cash in on in the console shooter market? The last successful game in the series was released in 1997. I don't see this being a game that's going to draw people in on the name, and for the people who did play the earlier games how many will be interested in it with the series switching from turn based squad combat to a FPS where you're an FBI (wtf? :confused:) agent?

This seems like something that would be better off as new IP instead of X-Com, at least then you're not going to have pissed off fans of the previous games.

[mckerney]

Bah, at least the are new games in the Jagged Alliance and Syndicate series.

[Groundhog]

Bah, at least the are new games in the Jagged Alliance and Syndicate series.

Serious? I'm out of the loop... :(

[stevew]

This will probably be as awesome as the Wii tecmo bowl that came out this past winter.

[sterlingice]

Bah, at least the are new games in the Jagged Alliance and Syndicate series.

Syndicate is back?

SI

[Honolulu_Blue]

Perhaps there is hope yet...

This game "Xenonauts" appears to be the latest "spiritual successor" to X-Com from an indy producer:

http://www.xenonauts.com/index.php (http://www.xenonauts.com/index.php)

I read through the website. They certainly talk a good game and appear to "get" what made X-Com so great. If they can pull it off, the game could be sweet.

Between this and that "Elemental" game (or whatever it is called), there is still hope yet for turn-based gems.

[Greyroofoo]

E3 Trailer is out.

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[Matthean]

Looks rather interesting, but that's so not X-Com and I'm not talking even the FPS aspect. The aliens need to have the classic look. Those were just misshaped black things.
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[Greyroofoo]

Yeah, makes me think Venom is somewhere in the game.

[JonInMiddleGA]

E3 Trailer is out.

Not sure if this is the right treatment for XCom ... but it sure does look nice.

You can definitely see the Bioshock influences but I dunno about the X-Files black oil villains.

[Atocep]

Unfortunately it's exactly what I was expecting from Irrational Games. Bioshock was more or less a remake of System Shock 2. This looks more like Bioshock 3 than anything else.

They're good developers, but innovation and new concepts aren't exactly their strong points. Almost everything they do goes back to System Shock.