XCOM: Enemy Unknown by Firaxis

[Intigo]

Firaxis is remaking XCOM in the original style:

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...y-unknown.aspx

Interesting~

[DevilDude]

well if anyone knows how to translate oldschool titles into modern success it's fireaxis.

I swear to god Sid Meier is like the Einstein of gaming.

[Omega Supreme]

well if anyone knows how to translate oldschool titles into modern success it's fireaxis.

I swear to god Sid Meier is like the Einstein of gaming.

He really is. And hope this doesn't turn into a failure or anything, XCOM needs love and not that first person shooter kind of love.


The 2004 version of Pirates was p. good and delivered more than just a repackaged game with remade graphics, so hoping for something similar here.

[Fallout]

Theres a indie dev working on an XCOM remake as well, its not official but its pretty much the same but in a cold war setting.

http://www.xenonauts.com/

[Intigo]

Theres a indie dev working on an XCOM remake as well, its not official but its pretty much the same but in a cold war setting.

http://www.xenonauts.com/

Pretty sure there's a thread on dat already though

[arian snow]

Pretty awesome, really looking forward to it.

[FatFreddy]

XCOM: Enemy Unknown comes out for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC this fall

disappointment incoming

[Selb]

XCOM: Enemy Unknown comes out for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC this fall

disappointment incoming

yup

press x to autoplot blaster bomb path

[Helen]

The original XCOM also came out PlayStation too v0v.

[Xarthaginian]

The original XCOM also came out PlayStation too v0v.

I had that. The manual was fucking HUGE.

[hinch]

i really wish firaxis would remake their OWN game...... alpha centari

[Lancehot]

i really wish firaxis would remake their OWN game...... alpha centari

I still play that. It doesn't need remaking. Not least because I have no doubt they'd somehow include the Alien Crossfire expansion, which is a massive pile of wank.

[helgur]

Off course it will be good, its Sid Meier. You can't expect failure from this man, look at what he did with Civ V

oh wait ...

[Boltorano]

Don't remake old shit, if you want to play SMAC go play SMAC, make "spiritual successors" if you must, but with a better plot and take advantage of new game design ideas / more computing power.

[Intigo]

Off course it will be good, its Sid Meier. You can't expect failure from this man, look at what he did with Civ V

oh wait ...

Civ V was mostly a miss (I still play 4), but the Pirates remake was just fine. Firaxis as a whole are not idiots and while many disagree with how V turned out there's no denying that these guys make good strategy games.

[Lancehot]

I like civ5. Sure, it gets rid of some of the good stuff of previous civs without dealing with some of the major issues (like what a boring, blobby, CPU burning chore the endgame is). But...urm...the narrator has a nice voice.

[kyrieee]

I haven't played Civ 5 so I don't know how bad it was, but Sid did not design that game so don't pin its failures on him. I think he was working on the facebook Civ game and no I'm not saying that's to his credit. Anyway, Sid working on it doesn't mean much, we don't know what kind of development mandade he was given. I think he did a decent job with Civ Rev though.

[helgur]

Off course it will be good, its Sid Meier. You can't expect failure from this man, look at what he did with Civ V

oh wait ...

Civ V was mostly a miss (I still play 4), but the Pirates remake was just fine. Firaxis as a whole are not idiots and while many disagree with how V turned out there's no denying that these guys make good strategy games.

I'm not saying that, I am just saying don't expect the second coming just because its :firaxis: or Sid Meier

[Mona]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featur...y-unknown.aspx

[firefoxx80]

Xenonauts looks better tbqfh