With 2K's new California-based studio 2K Marin confirmed to be working on a sequel to BioShock, just what are those folks at 2K Boston up to? If a rumor from the latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine is to be believed, Ken Levine and company are working on a next-gen version of X-COM, the popular space-themed series that started on the PC in the early 90s.
This rumor is nothing new -- the gossip mongering Surfer Girl has hinted at the title in the past, and other rumblings throughout the industry have suggested this as well. The rights to the X-COM IP has been in the hands of Take-Two Interactive since June of 2005, but the company has been quiet on their plans.
Obviously, based on the sources, this has to be regarded as pure rumor. But as they say, "where there's smoke, there's fire," and this is one rumor that won't seem to go away. With E3 right around the corner, it's likely that 2K Boston's next project will be revealed in some fashion; whether or not that's a new X-COM title remains to be seen.
[Via Kotaku]
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10:49 AM on 05.05.2008
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As long as they don't make it anything other than a semi-turn based strategy game. And none of that console bullshit either, no sir!
X-com might be one of the greatest games ever made, but it's hardly a setting that suits other game types. You have some aliens, guys with guns, it's not exactly a unique setting with memorable characters and isn't want made the game great, it was what they did with a whole bunch of clichés that was awesome sauce. I could very much see this turn into a BlackSite Area 51 clone if they just think they can get away on brand name and setting alone.
As much as people mention RebelStar whenever X-Com comes up, I'm really thinking I should pick it up. Managing the troops bases and interceptions was a highlight for me, though, and I never heard that RebelStar really go into base/troop management like X-Com did.
But yeah, if this new alleged X-Com project is not Turn-Based Strategy, they really better come correct, at least with a bitchin' geo-scape mode and similarly randomized mission situations.
They make me wish so much that they were true
Methinks I'll be disappointed.
Also, Fuck Rammstein in the neck. Fuck you, guy. Fuck you.