XCOM returns as a FPS?!

[impar]

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X-Com Is Back!

X-Com, the classic 90's turn-based strategy game pitting mankind against alien invaders, is set to make a comeback as a first-person shooter, courtesy of the 2K studios behind BioShock 2.

The game, which is actually called XCOM, is in development for the Xbox 360 and PC at 2K Australia and 2K Marin, and makes substantial changes to the original series, combining research and planning elements not with overhead, turn-based strategy sections, but with first-person shooter action.

[Darth Llama]

Well, that sounds like a steaming pile of suck.

[Cthulhu8u]

I forget, wasn't there supposed to be an FPS version way back in the day? I don't think it ever got released, but it was rumored. I do remember there was a flight-sim-type game X-Com: Interceptor, so this wouldn't be the first non turn-based X-Com game out there.

[impar]

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Nice reading:
Why X-COM Matters (To Me)

[impar]

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Xenonauts:
http://www.xenonauts.com/

[impar]

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Trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-xcom/101215

[Seawolf]

Here's what I think about X-Com ( )
Here's what I think about the new X-Com ( )

[impar]

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A Grey Of Light: UFO: The Two Sides Beta

That looks familiar, you may think. And you’ll think right. It’s UFO: The Two Sides which is a freeware fan-remake of X-COM/UFO which has just entered the open Beta stage. And having a few quick missions, it’s an impressively complete thing. The big change is that when it’s complete, you’ll be able to play the aliens rather than the humans. At the moment, it’s more conceptual – you select aliens, but there’s no Human AI (Which you could take as a particularly sharp piece of commentary on humanity’s nature, if you wished) though you can play the two-player with one person as aliens and one person as humans.

[impar]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8otmMpaIdQ

[impar]

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Video:
http://www.shacknews.com/article/68835/e3-2011-xcom