Trailers: XCOM - Gameplay Trailer

[Master_Fubar23]

Alright, just gonna put it out there, I hiss at this game. It is not X-Com, because X-Com is a turn-based strategy game with some base management stuff set in a near future, at a world-wide setting with a semi-cartoony aesthetic. This game is not those things.

It is in fact a shooter involving aliens that is set in a 1960s ish period with a realistic artstyle. Which could be great! But it isn't X-Com.

I think this game would do better as an original IP. Those who have fond memories of X-Com don't want to see it become a shooter, and everyone loves an original IP.

Edit: To clarify, I genuinally think this game has excellent potential. I'm really big on setting and like the person in the trailer says, 1962 is a fascinating year, and the game could really go into the politics of both America and of the Cold War as a whole. But that's a lot to ask and from what I saw in the trailer it seems we have:

Stupid and Cliche one-liners ("Now THATS what I call firepower!")
Coverbased shooter combat (the person says that you can't stand toe to toe with the aliens, it doesn't look that tough, the smg is powerful and your health regenerates fast)
No real strategy (I say this because look at how fast time units regenerate. It's crazy. Also, once you level up a few agents, why ever use anyone else?)

Not convinced people.

I can't agree more. In X-Com you had as many men you could fit inside a transport and you needed to bring as many men as possible since they would drop like flies. If I want to play a Mass Effect clone I'll just play Mass Effect. Though the story might be its only redeeming factor though and I really do hope it is. I generally perfer story over gameplay so I'll play a game that might not be fun but has a great story.

 

[MajorMurray]

First off, this video reveals a game that reeks of design by committee. They made a deal of checking off their politically correct boxes despite how at odds it put their version of the 1960s with the actual historical context. To top off their ignorance or dismissal of history and context, was our hero really using a German SMG instead of something like a Tommy Gun? In the 60s? (Or at least something more appropriate. My movie and TV based knowledge of post-WW2 weaponry maaay not be the best...)

It's a weapon nick named the grease gun, my great grandfather had one. The real name is the M3 submachine gun. It's a submachine gun, very easy to use and it has a short stock. I believe in Fallout New Vegas it's called the 9mm submachine gun. Just trying to clear this up. Also the M3 might not have much kick, but that alien rocket launcher type thing! POW!

 

[Product Placement]

Can people please stop comparing this to Fallout 3?

I don't know what planet you were on when that game came out but in my social circle, we were hyped. I loved fallout 1 and 2 and when news came out that a new company had gotten their hands on the Fallout license, I was thrilled and I found exceptionally little negative feedback coming from the community. You wanna know why? Because everything I saw coming from Bethesda was telling me that they were making a Fallout game.

I'm not even gonna listen to an argument stating that this is the same.

 

[Rythe]

It's a weapon nick named the grease gun, my great grandfather had one. The real name is the M3 submachine gun. It's a submachine gun, very easy to use and it has a short stock. I believe in Fallout New Vegas it's called the 9mm submachine gun. Just trying to clear this up. Also the M3 might not have much kick, but that alien rocket launcher type thing! POW!

Thanks! I really wasn't sure, but the rounded rear end made me think German for some reason, and then I realized I had no idea what the Western/American SMG of the time period looked like because the Tommy Gun was more the 20's and such.

 

[thirion1850]

I guess I should be happy it's got a bigger color pallet and they fight Aliens rather than nazi's again.

 

[remmus]

frankly I´m in the "it looks interesting but it shouldn´t be called x-com camp"

 

[Sandwichboy]

Well, at least we know they're making something contemporary, not like those boring old strategy games that no one buys.

 

[Dogstile]

Honestly, it looks like Brothers In Arms with less squads. It also looked perfectly possible to take out every alien with just the SMG and GODDAMMIT STOP WASTING YOUR LONG TERM RESOURCES YOU DID NOT NEED TO USE A TURRET.