A remake of one of the best PC games ever? Consider me seriously hyped.
I've spent countless hours defending Earth against those nasty aliens in the original X-COM. Let's just hope they don't screw it up by making it "more accessible", "action-packed" and "cinematic".
Just give me the old X-COM with modernized gfx and a slick GUI and I'll be a very happy camper.
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Sweet.
Also, I'm sure you've seen this since you have War in the East, but did you know Matrix has one too? It works swimmingly for me on Win 7 64 bit too. UFO Extraterrestrials.
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different game Pepper there are 2 now this on is strategy the other is more FPS
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Mighty big shoes to fill, but with Firaxis involved it has a shot. Fingers crossed.
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A remake of one of the best PC games ever? Consider me seriously hyped.
I've spent countless hours defending Earth against those nasty aliens in the original X-COM. Let's just hope they don't screw it up by making it "more accessible", "action-packed" and "cinematic".
Just give me the old X-COM with modernized gfx and a slick GUI and I'll be a very happy camper.
cool! thanks for sharing the info!
console audience and PC? Sounds hopeful, but I will believe it when I see it!
XCOM's leader needs a worldwide perspective where threats are identified, populations reassured, and national leaders mollified – but a tactical mind is just as critical considering every shot XCOM's soldiers fire on the battlefield is under the player's turn-based control.
OMG YES! i've got x-com apocolypse on my steam account loved it, used to see my dad playing them when they first came out all them years ago amazing games
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Cool! Looks like all the old elements are there, global monitoring, base building, R&D, and turn based battles.
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I am really looking forward to this.
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If you go to their website there's a developer diary sort of video there. It's also on Youtube but it wants you to log in to see it there. You still need to confirm your age for the main site but after that you're OK.
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There's a preview in this months pcgamer, this is going to be a instant buy for me as the original was one of my favourite games of all time. I remember when I had a not so legal copy for my Amiga 500 and struggled to run it.
I think there is a backlog of classic, really aging computer games and sims that each of us secretly (or openly) pray would be modernized, without sacrificing the original. Not a new interpretation or take, just a faithful remake of a great program. X-Com has got to be on many people's lists. The effort by Firaxis takes on a tremendous load of wishes and hopes and prayers and, if successful, could open the way for other sims and games to be remade. But if it is a miserable, or even boring product and sinks in the marketplace, I fear it will take all those other dreams down with it. So PLEASE FIRAXIS! WIN ONE FOR THE GIPPER! PLEASE!!!
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If you go to their website there's a developer diary sort of video there. It's also on Youtube but it wants you to log in to see it there. You still need to confirm your age for the main site but after that you're OK. http://www.xcom.com/enemyunknown/index.html Elf
Yeah, thanks. Oh man, I really looking forward to it. I like all what I can can see in that vid.
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Not yet. Only saw videos about and read a little bit in the forums. Yes it looks good and it have it´s charme, but it`s currently far from a release. There are things missing in the current build and I dont want to play and stuck somewhere. Other alien species are also not implemented yet. Eventualy will have a look at it again when it`s finished. Currently playing UFO:ET until Firaxi`s game is released.
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X-com! X-com and Falcon3.0 were my first computer games! great games!
please don't frak over this version of X-com! If firaxis can keep the core gameplay and update the graphics as the first link suggest they are doing then they will have my money and support!
Wow, I am a very picky gamer and this looks to be a pleasure surprise. It seems like the designing team made all the right decisions on this remake. I might just buy it the moment it come out.
Awesome can't wait to customize my base and play this game. I never played the original but this looks like my cup of tea.
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