Trailers: XCOM - Gameplay Trailer

[Comrade Mateo]

Yeah yeah yeah it's not XCOM. Surprise surprise.

On the actual merits of this walkthrough; I wasn't expecting this. The game oozes Mass Effect, which is fine, honestly, it looks great. But I was thinking, from the trailers, it would be more of a survival horror. Just the Aliens themselves aren't at all what I wanted...from all the black mist I assumed they'd be shapeless creatures, and the whole gratuitous gore aspect supports that survival horror ideology. Nonetheless, this looks great; I'll pick it up for sure.

 

[Blind Sight]

Still not a huge fan of this being called X-Com (it makes no goddamn sense, especially in the universe canon, as X-Com emerged as an international venture in 1999, and no secret 60s American version was ever mentioned), but I'll hold out on calling it bad or good until it comes out. What I will call it is misleading and probably dishonest. It doesn't feel like X-Com at all, they've gutted out anything they've considered 'overwhelming'(which was exactly what made X-Com X-Com...the complexity and customization you were offered). It's quite clear that it's a cash-in title, as if they were trying to distance themselves from the original they wouldn't do the annoying remake title. However, from the gameplay I've seen it at least looks interesting (but then again, this is 2k Marin, and after Bioshock 2 I trust them a lot less). Honestly, they could have marketed this as an original IP and saved themselves a lot of rage.

Also, if they're going for the 1960s setting, they've really got to do better research. The narrator goes on and on about social and cultural shifts occurring in America at that time, but a woman as X-Com's chief? In the 1960s? Really, really stretching it 2k.

 

[Liquid Paradox]

hmm... judging by the comment's, it would appear that I would have to have never played the previous xcom games in order to enjoy this one. What I saw, fankly, looked fun, and that's all I really care about. Will I preorder? heck no. will I play? probably.

 

[KillerMort]

i've never played X-com so i don't think i have much of a "it's not X-com" bias in the opinion. but what i got from this is that it's a sci fi shooter that is based in the 60's with many elements from Mass effect and pokemon. And for some reason i really like this combo . is it unoriginal i wouldn't say that it isn't a carbon copy of mass effect it has better team tactics that are more than, the rock paper scissors ability use, and the capturing is an incredibly awesome feature that i really like. They have better tech let's use, perfect logic.

 

[instantbenz]

Hm... chest-high walls and brothers in arms style squad crap. No thanks. Detective work yay, boring gun battles between chest high walls boo.

 

[RAVENBOI22]

Looks more like resistance FoM to me... That had more of the " you're fucked no matter what" feel to it.

 

[Summerstorm]

Eh... i am a big X-Com fan {At least of the 2, maybe three first ones *g*} and i also like first-person rpg games.

But this:
1. Cover based blahblah
2. Too much action, not enough suspense
3. Regenerating health... REALLY?

Might be okay-ish though. {If the basestuff / planning / interaction etc. can make the game atmospheric and challenging}

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

I'm not a fan of the original X-Com games, but the 'strategy vision' and the use of time units really rub me the wrong way. It strikes me as the laziest, most ham-handed attempt to try and force a connection where there is none.

 

[winter2]

Heh.. I can't say I'm totally sold on the health bars and I'm not so sure about that "overwhelming choice" comment he made either.

Overall, my judgement is meh! followed with a dismissive wave of my hand.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Lets say we want to reboot Quake but as a child I had trouble with aiming and always felt like it was too fast pace so we are going to go for a strategic element with you managing battle arenas from a top down perspective. You can add in item spawn points and have NPCs pay admission into your battle arenas and play. You can set up concession stands to sell snacks and research new more exciting power ups to make your battle arenas more fun. You got to hire staff to clean up the battle arenas and do repairs when item spawns and jump pads start to wear down. The weapons you can expect to add to your battle arena are pistols, shotguns, sniper rifles, assault rifles, grenades, and a missile launcher. We are going to call it "QUAKE"

Instead of naming it something like "Battle Arena Tycoon" they go use the name Quake when it has basically nothing to do with FPS. That is whats happening with this "XCOM" reboot as it has nothing to do with the lore or gameplay of the original. Its disrespectful to slap the name of a computer game classic like X-Com on a game that really doesn't even try to come close to the original.
In unrelated news I think 2K is planning to revive the Master of Orion series as a racing game where you race space buggies on the planet Orion. They secretly will be inspired by the physics of Mass Effect's Mako driving segments.

Edit: spell check changed my mako into make >:|

Well, they kind of already have done that.

Go look up Quake 4.

 

[kebab4you]

It still pisses me off that they are calling it XCOM, It sure as hell isn't. We know it, you know it, so why not change the name?! What idiot is going to buy this game because it is wearing the title "XCOM"?!

X-COM didn't even fucking exist in the 60's T.T"

 

[busters]

This looks great and I'll definitely play it, but like everyone said... it's not X-Com at all.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

The indie "Xenonauts" game looks like a much better X-com sequel, and that's just a few guys in london, not an enire 2K development team. Actually Xenonauts basically IS an X-com sequel, I just hope the lawyers don't get to that game before I do...

 

[Chadling]

A perfectly generic squad-based FPS that just happens to rape the good name of one of the best strategy series of all time.

Not buying. I just think less of 2K for this travesty.

 

[Chaos Marine]

Still not X-Com. I really wish they'd stop. Or at least die in a fire. Oh yes, they played the original X-Com? They really must have hated and despised it like the KKK hate non-white races.

No no, you aren't getting the full graveness of the situation, they hate the original X-Com the way the Nazis hate jews. This new game is equal to the holocaust of the 21st century and we, the X-Com fans are its victims.

"They came first for the Fallout Fans
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Fallout Fan
Then they came for the Far Cry Fans
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Far Cry Fan
Then they came for the Prince of Persia Fans
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Prince of Persia Fan
Then they came for the Alone in the Dark Fans
and I didn't speak up because I was a Silent Hill Fan
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

Nazis? I invoke Godwin's law. Fallout 3 was actually a good game by the way, sure it was glitchy but what Bethesda game isn't to some extent? The others, yes, I didn't care because the Prince of Persia died a long time ago to me, never cared about Alone in the Dark or Silent Hill.

 

[Worgen]

if this was its own ip then I would actually probably be interested in it but since these idiots decided to call it xcom and have nothing to do with xcom, I wont give it the time of day

 

[veloper]

I've come up with better titles for this game.

Mass FX
Xmas Effect

 

[Smooth Operator]

This is an odd one, it has some very interesting parts but for some reason it's suuuuper sloooow, and if the combat is all like that... well I haven't got the patience for turn based stuff anymore.

All it takes is a name to make a game bad nowadays, doesn't it?

Abuse of a name is the problem, if you order steak and I bring you a salad I'm guessing you would complain.
And in this case they want to cash in on a fanbase that they do not appease.

 

[Realitycrash]

I just can't stop laughing at the Fanboys in the comment section yelling "THIS ISN'T XCOM!"

Haha, oh lawd. So what? It's a game with the same name, noone ever claimed it would fully represent the old game.
Or did they? If they did, then you really should understand that game-companies are full of shit, and promise a whole lot they don't intend to keep.
So why don't you imagine this is "Mass Effect in the 60's", as some bloke pointed out up there, and ignore the XCOM-bit? Because to me, it looks cool. Far cooler than Mass Effect.

("BUT IT ISN'T XCOM!" Yes, I heard you first time, and I still don't care. It looks like a good game. If you want XCOM, play the old one, because this clearly isn't a remake.)

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Haha, oh lawd. So what? It's a game with the same name, noone ever claimed it would fully represent the old game.

You're a barrel of laughs, aren't you? I bet the Schaudenfraude of Hurricane Irene has you in stitches.

Perhaps you could take a moment to look beyond your interpretation of the situation and into the background - exemplified by the Transformers films.

What you're talking about is not just the use of a good name to promote something average, or the idea that - if we remove the name - it wouldn't sell, but rather the legacy where X-Com goes from a well loved game, to a tolerated set of games, to a generic shooter - and can't go back to the well loved game because 2K Marin are sitting on the licence to prevent an accurate remake.

But, if you just enjoy laughing at people missing something special to them, I'm sure there's a job for you in Scientology somewhere.