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A new X-COM sequel on the horizon...

posted 16 years ago by mikemann
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It's been an industry rumor for a while now, but it's been recently confirmed by 2K Games (who have owned the X-COM franchise license for a few years now) that a new X-COM game is in the works. What it'll be, exactly? Too early to say, but I also took the liberty of confirming the news with a friend of mine who works for 2K Games (He worked on BioShock, and even System Shock 2 back in the day) - he says he was involved in the project for a short while, before being pulled away to work on DLC for BioShock.

At any rate, it's happening - a new X-COM. I'll update this thread when I hear anything new. I'd be happy with a re-envisioning of the first game.

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[–] Wonderboy2402 14 years ago

Your friend was right on! Two years later rumor is confirmed to be true.

[–] ChrisCottell 13 years ago

And by the looks of it it will suck.

However, there is a iPhone clone game in the offing

Isochron : Isometric iPhone Strategy Game: game.jseuss.com/

Games: http://uk.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=42324528

[–] empath69 12 years ago

Suck?

Well, the demo is chugging kinda slow on my not-exactly-old PC, but it certainly seems to keep the turn-based tactical battles (with plenty of tension, wondering if an alien is going to be where I'm expecting or if I'm positioning my squaddies to get flanked)

And the base-building and global operations were glossed over in the demo, but they too look to be faithful to the original game.

But then again, Sid Meier's Firaxis *can* be trusted to take an existing property and keep the essential spirit alive as they update it with the developments that have come along since the original.

...though, I wonder what the equivalent to 'dancing with the governor's daughter' will be in X-COM: Enemy Unknown. ;)

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music." - George Carlin