Am I the only one who thought the original reboot (The Bioshock inspired one, not the Mass Effect inspired one) Looked pretty good?

There was a Mass Effect inspired one?

I've had Enemy Unknown preordered for while, and it looks like it's shaping up nicely, not that I ever really doubted Firaxis. However, since it releases on the same day as Dishonored, I will probably be getting my stealth on first.

They added mass effect elements to the Shooter version. Which is a huge downgrade imo.

Laharl Krichevskoy - As far as looking like an OK game, yeah. It just wasn't an XCOM game in any way save for stapling the IP to it for brand recognition. Which thankfully failed spectacularly :P

Their marketing campaign probably didn't help them either. I seem to recall them pushing the fact that there was a new XCOM game in the works. Getting everyone's hopes up then dropping the bomb that it was an FPS. Then some schtick about how they were making the game more modern by changing a beloved TBS game into a FPS ...... because FPS are what sells.

Personally I probably would have been fine with the game if they had called it ANYTHING else. Like I said looked like it could have been a decent standalone IP.

..... reading through that before I hit post apparently I still have some pent up animosity with regards to that whole fiasco, still best of luck to them.

I was excited for the reboot too. I liked the ideas they had for the story, especially how the "golden era" of America was anything but for non-white and non-straight citizens.

@Shuffles

Now that there's a proper strategy follow-up, there's no reason to be upset at a spin-off like the FPS being different.

I think the squad size being reduced to six is definitely a good thing, it got a little tiring having to move around so many guys in the original x-com.

Laharl yes you are the only one who thought the fps one looked good, lol

Nope, I thought the FPS game looked cool too, I was looking forward to the possibility of that game having multiple playthrough possibilities, like approaching and investigating in certain ways would result in certain outcomes of investigation. Going down the wrong path would lead to towns getting wiped off the face of the earth and boring/uneventful gameplay or an attack happening out of the blue and killing your character and resetting you back to the beginning of an investigation.

To be clear, the little gameplay video they showed alone looked like it had really ambitious potential for a new approach to mission-structured FPS games. It reminded me of the level structure/design of Destroy All Humans! so to speak.

I don't see why in this industry we couldn't have had X-COM AND XCOM: Enemy Unknown, as the former could have been a solid attempt to blend Phoenix Wright/Adventure game style investigating and exploration and mix it with the unique weapon designs and combat present in BioShock.

tl;dr I'd really still would like to see the FPS happen. =/

It's close, but where the heal is the steam pre-order?