icemann on 11/5/2010 at 13:08
The screenshots look good except that the blob alien looks stupid, and that I have to completely forget for a second that its a XCOM game or I get very angry.
The game in those screenshots isn`t XCOM to me. More a game with the name XCOM tacked on to sell more copies. Why didn`t they just go with an original IP? Would have been so much better for everyone.
I dont recall XCOM 1 or 2 being set in the 50s. Now I would have asked "whats with all the games set in the 50s lately?" but then I have only to look at Fallout 3 and Bioshock and I have my answer.
What was so wrong with setting it in present day or the 90s? Be nice to play a game that was set in the 90s for a change.
EvaUnit02 on 11/5/2010 at 13:16
Bioshock was rooted in 1940's post-War culture actually.
Dresden on 11/5/2010 at 19:21
The X-COM games have usually been set in different eras, but I'm really apathetic to the 50s thing. The X-COM agents need a uniform at least. Maybe a new take on the MiB thing.
Sathras on 12/5/2010 at 18:51
I still don't get it. Granted the pictures look neat. And the style is pretty good. But what did they think to develop that as an X-Com game? I don't mind that it isn't a RTS game. What I mean is it doesn't seem to fit into the same era the other xcom games were in. And even if they would want to put it into another era where is the resemblence to the xcom series. Is it just that it has aliens? I didn't recognize Halo as an xcom title but maybe that's just me...honestly I'm baffled.
Fragony on 13/5/2010 at 07:17
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Bioshock was rooted in 1940's post-War culture actually.
Nah it's all art-deco, twenties and thirties
This game looks fun but wtf. I agree with Iceman.
nicked on 14/5/2010 at 09:01
This has to be a "reinvention" then, not any kind of continuation of existing X-COM canon, which indeed begs the question "Why?" if it's nothing like previous XCOM games and is not a continuation of the plot. The original X-COM game started in the (then) near future of 1999. Terror from the Deep was set in 2034 (I think).
So yeah, they can just sell a few more copies by printing XCOM on the cover.
Malf on 11/6/2010 at 06:27
The developers are idiots:
(
http://kotaku.com/5560602/our-first-look-at-xcom-in-motion) How in the fuck is this X-COM?
As someone says in the comments, this first trailer is a wasted opportunity. They had a chance to show research and any of the things that they claim makes this X-COM. Instead them show genero-shooter-no.3,539, and what's worse is that the featured enemy got boring after seeing it just once.
"Oh, it's the Spawn from Quake, and he got a makeover! Neat! Wait, is that ALL there is?".
Sulphur on 11/6/2010 at 07:33
Fighting viscous black goo seems pretty dire. At any rate, this being the first trailer for E3, I'm sure their plan of attack was to draw people in with something attention-getting - to wit, shooting. I'm not surprised.
Showing off research and tactics in a debut trailer might salve some of the wounds of the old X-COM faithful, but it wouldn't draw in any appreciable crowds.
Digital Nightfall on 11/6/2010 at 07:57
I thought it looked pretty cool.
And yeh, debut E3 trailer needs to impress wal-mart, not hardcore PC gamers from the early 90s.
Eldron on 11/6/2010 at 09:14
Wow, bioshock3 looks kewl!
