Game Informer has just broken some of the best news for old-school PC gamers ever. In their upcoming February issue, they’ll be detailing the newly-announced XCOM: Enemy Unknown, which will be a strategy-game re-imagining of the original X-Com, which as any PC gamer from the 90s will tell you is one of the best games of all time.
The game will be published by Take2Games and developed by Firaxis, best known for its recent work in the Civilization series. This is a completely separate game from 2K Marin’s previously announced XCOM shooter, and it is unclear where this announcement leaves that project.
X-Com: Enemy Unknown sounds like what series fans have wanted for years. The title is absolutely a strategy game, putting players in the role of commanding an global anti-alien strike force, identifying threats, protecting citizens and reassuring national leaders, as well as developing new technologies, plotting out bases and commanding battlefield tactics to keep troops alive, minimizing collateral damage and recovering mysterious alien technology.
“It’s been a dream of ours to recreate X-Com with our unique creative vision. We’re huge fans of the original game and it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to re-envision a game that is as beloved as X-Com,” said Steve Martin, president of Firaxis Games. “We were careful to keep XCOM: Enemy Unknown true to the elements that made X-Com such a revered game while delivering an entirely new story and gameplay experience for both die-hard X-Com fans and newcomers to the franchise.”
To editorialize briefly: We can’t freakin’ wait.
[source] Game Informer
YES YES YES.
THIS is what I have wanted. I knew all those virgin sacrifices and paeans to the eldritch gods would pay off eventually!
Also: YES.
I never played the x-comm games.
I saw them at the store, but then I bought MASTER OF ORION.
Also why is firaxis making this instead of CIVREV2
Man you need to go onto Steam and download the original X-Com and play it and love it.
I'm too busy playing STAR CONTROL II
BUY IT PLAY IT LOVE IT
sorry I didn't catch that I was too busy tearing down the slave shield and saving this whole region of the galaxy from the ur quan menace.
In the words of Bart Scott, "Can't wait!"
I also never played the originals but have always wanted to. This will do nicely.
In the words of Bart Scott, "Can't wait!"
I also never played the originals but have always wanted to. This will do nicely.
You can get the full X-COM pack on Steam today for $5.09
huh what
sorry I can't hear you over this giant ancient alien spaceship I'm flying around, outfitted with tech that I've begged, borrowed, and stolen from dozens of spacefaring civilizations
pfffff you may have one spaceship
I GET DOZENS
Oh maybe you need a new glasses prescription? I mean, if you didn't see this fleet of alien vessels surrounding my mothership, each donated by its homeworld as I strung together a new alliance of free stars.
yeah well they will get shot down and their pilots dissected if they get too close
too close to what
the glowing red slave shield that the ur quan erected around the planet earth?
ur quan aint shit but hoes and tricks
actually they are giant monsters from space
monster space hookers
man if you want to pay this for sex
i guess that's your business
I'd prefer a syreen, myself
but to each their own, I guess
I grant you this: X-Com does not have syreens. Point to StarCon2.