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I'll give it a shot. I love the original xcom games, but I know theyll never recapture the magic, so I'm not even going to compare them. As long as the new one is a solid fps I'm sold
Sound better than it did last year. Looking forward to this one now.
Gonna be a tough week for them, though, if they want to go head to head against Mass Effect 3 for release. I'll probably buy both, but I think they'd do well to put some distance between another sci-fi tactical experience.
Gonna be a tough week for them, though, if they want to go head to head against Mass Effect 3 for release. I'll probably buy both, but I think they'd do well to put some distance between another sci-fi tactical experience.
I'm really digging the changes they've made. Also sounds like it'll have decent replayabilty. They might just get $60 out of me.
Changes make it sound like they were more fans of Rainbow Six than they were fans of X-Com.
1. The 1960s settings is ok I guess. I mean the original took place in sort of a cyberpunk-esque 1999 future while this has absolutely nothing in common design wise with that.
2. The animation in the video is pretty awful and very robotic/stiff. I hope they take time to polish that up. The REZ like graphics look pretty good but the rest of the stuff looks pretty mediocre.
3. Gameplay wise this is not going to "please fans of the original" just like Fallout 3 was supposed to "please fans of the original" and was promised not to be "Oblivion with guns" and yet turned out to be precisely that.
Will the game be good? Quite possibly. It looks rather interesting and fun. Will it please fans of the original series of games? No. As a fan of X-Com and Terror, this looks like shit. As a fan of shooters this looks interesting, but this is X-Com in the loosest form possible, they are literally just jacking the name/ip in an attempt to cash in on previous good will and nostalgia.
1. The 1960s settings is ok I guess. I mean the original took place in sort of a cyberpunk-esque 1999 future while this has absolutely nothing in common design wise with that.
2. The animation in the video is pretty awful and very robotic/stiff. I hope they take time to polish that up. The REZ like graphics look pretty good but the rest of the stuff looks pretty mediocre.
3. Gameplay wise this is not going to "please fans of the original" just like Fallout 3 was supposed to "please fans of the original" and was promised not to be "Oblivion with guns" and yet turned out to be precisely that.
Will the game be good? Quite possibly. It looks rather interesting and fun. Will it please fans of the original series of games? No. As a fan of X-Com and Terror, this looks like shit. As a fan of shooters this looks interesting, but this is X-Com in the loosest form possible, they are literally just jacking the name/ip in an attempt to cash in on previous good will and nostalgia.
Good to know they've learnt their lesson... at least partially. The initial concept for this game was clearly a pretender to the X-Com throne; this one could make a case for at least being a bastard child.
But... it would be nice if they got rid of the dopey Pokeball thing. I can see why they included it - it could potentially create interesting risk-vs-reward decisions - but there are other, more naturalistic ways to do that. Give some Agents a skill which lets them slowly hack into and eventually disable or take control of alien tech, perhaps - like a mechanical version of the psionic powers from the original games, with the trade-off being that if you take control of the alien unit, it self-destructs after a set time. Would be cool to decide I want to take control of a specific turret, and then have to cover my buddy while he does the hacking.
Also, I could see an "original X-Com" mod happening for this. That would be great.
But... it would be nice if they got rid of the dopey Pokeball thing. I can see why they included it - it could potentially create interesting risk-vs-reward decisions - but there are other, more naturalistic ways to do that. Give some Agents a skill which lets them slowly hack into and eventually disable or take control of alien tech, perhaps - like a mechanical version of the psionic powers from the original games, with the trade-off being that if you take control of the alien unit, it self-destructs after a set time. Would be cool to decide I want to take control of a specific turret, and then have to cover my buddy while he does the hacking.
Also, I could see an "original X-Com" mod happening for this. That would be great.
still don't give a damn. when i first heard about Tactical Mode i thought for a second that they're making it aAT LEAST closer to XCom games, but no. from all the previews it looks like crap they made to please fans of the XCom franchise but it feels so tackled on on last minute and useless that i don't want this game even more. what's so Tactical in this mode if it looks like all you can do is what you could do from first person view . this just made me mad that they're pulling cheap tricks like this instead of taking their time and feedback and making it even a little bit like past XCom games.
I gotta say that alot of people are just complaining too much about this game and not giving it a chance at all before it's even really because they think that just because they're game series moves into first person means that it is now officially terrible, even though it really isn't, so they shouldn't start complaining about it until they've actually played the game themselves and seen that their game series hasn't been completely ruined because of this game shift.
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