Trailers: XCOM Trailer

[Team Hollywood]

XCOM Trailer

Taking the role of an FBI agent, your task in XCOM is to identify and eliminate extraterrestrial threats.

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[IamSofaKingRaw]

This game uses the Kinect?

 

[archabaddon]

So, instead of getting a turn-based strategy game with the neat R&D metagame to upgrade capabilities of squads and bases, we get a shooter that pits us against Nickelodeon Slime.

/facepalm

That's like chucking a tortoise shell at someone's head and calling it Super Mario Brothers.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Looks like there could at least be some interesting set pieces...

I'll have to keep an eye on previews.

 

[similar.squirrel]

This just looks like a badly-reskinned Bioshock.

 

[paketep]

So... was there ANYTHING new at all in that trailer?. Why is this news?.

Still doesn't deserve to carry the name XCOM, but that's not new.

 

[AzraelSteel]

Wow - I was originally uninterested in this because they were ripping off a game I like to make a different game entirely, and now I am less interested because ignoring that, the game looks terrible in every way.

 

[BrotherRool]

Fight = shoot with pistol
Study = shoot with gun

I'm willing to give this game a chance, it looks like a bit of thought might've been put into it

 

[DeadEy3]

Wait... did he just get out the back door at 38sec? Back seat driving is amazing...

 

[Daverson]

RAUL! Today you will add Snakemen... I command it!

(Also, -50 points because I've just realized how much these new Aliens resemble some of the Aliens in one the Altar UFO games)

 

[Pumpkinmancer]

People have been asking for new X-Com for years and years and years. But what a slap to the face this is! A generic monster shooter with blob monsters running around killing people.

No one asked for -this- game. This game is not reinventing X-Com it's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Thanks 2K. But seriously, no thanks. You can bury this game and never do anything with X-Com again if this is the crap you plan to give us.

Not every IP needs to be a 1st person shooter now!

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

Probably not the best title for this game, but it looks like it's worth a look in the future. That said, this doesn't look like it is anything more than a preview build (similar to a demo). I'll keep an eye on it and not keep my hopes up.

 

[Quesa]

Insulting, although the 'STUDY THEM: WITH A SHOTGUN' part is funny in an MST3K kinda way.

 

[Fawful]

This game uses the Kinect?

Nope.

And just to set the record straight, the new XCOM will have almost all of the base upgrading/squad training/researching aspects of the old XCOM, slightly scaled down for the reduced scope (the game only takes place in America as opposed to the whole world.) The devs have said so in previews.

 

[Ghengis John]

Lame.

Seconded and nice avatar, Teresa I see.

I was hoping this trailer would be a new one, perhaps showing off some of these purported "strategy elements" I've been hearing about. No such luck I see. I'll never know why they went FPS style. It wouldn't kill a developer to produce something that was less like a shooter in a shooter heavy market. That said, I'm hoping for some mitigation.

 

[Zechnophobe]

XCOM Trailer

Taking the role of an FBI agent, your task in XCOM is to identify and eliminate extraterrestrial threats.

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I love how it is this trailer of a fairly forgettable looking indie FPS game, and then for some reason they slap on 'XCOM' at the end. I'm not sure why they put that there, and I'm really curious what the name of the game is.

 

[Rallion]

Still offensive.

And just to set the record straight, the new XCOM will have almost all of the base upgrading/squad training/researching aspects of the old XCOM, slightly scaled down for the reduced scope (the game only takes place in America as opposed to the whole world.) The devs have said so in previews.

Considering that it's an FPS, that isn't even possible. Every trailer I watch just makes me more sure that this game will be nothing special. They talk about all this research, and squad mechanics, but all they ever show us is one guy fighting with revolvers, shotguns and fancy-looking grenades, and taking pictures. Great. More pictures. Sure, that counts as a research system.

Of course, even if I'm wrong about those mechanics, the game still bears almost no resemblance to the old games. The switch to FPS is upsetting, and the complete change to the setting / enemies / etc. is even more so simply because there was no reason for it. Unless, that is, they just slapped the name on a pre-existing project, like an "As seen on TV!" sticker.