XCOM Trailer Shows Off FPS 'Re-Imagining'

Meh, looks okay, but this ain't XCOM. Us old, bitter gamers while LOVED the original XCOM will never accept this as a new XCOM. It's a FPS with oil slicks.

Ok I already posted a mocking point, but you want the real reason this is happening? It's happening because the original X-Com would not port well to consoles.

This is how we take a classic property and move it to a gamepad.

I haven't played X-Com. This looks like a fresh take on a very rundown concept (Alien Invasion). I can understand fans of the original series feeling a bit betrayed due to their expectations based on their experience with the original game, but I think this looks quite good.

If they just changed the name. Being as it has nothing to do with X-COM (and they didn't even spell it right!), just change the name and go from there. This game might have the potential to be a neat generic little FPS, but with the X-COM name all it does is enrage the dorks. What's the benefit to using the name X-COM if the franchise is so dead?

This looks like absolute crap. How can they ruin the X-com name with this pile of shart.

Not turn based, and if they consider this "real time" then they can go screw themselves.

Looks like Ill stick to playing X-com APOC again until they take a X-com reboot seriously. This game will do horrible review wise, and sales wise. None of the real X-com players will buy this, and no one will see this trailer and actually think, Cool I want to shoot black blobs all the time.

Ok, so i've got it all figured out. The game looks good on it's own merit. In fact, if they hadn't slapped the X-COM name on the title, it probably would've been fine. Coulda called it Alien Apocalypse or something equally B-rated sounding.

I digress: Ok, so they have this pretty ok looking game and idea, but they're like "Fudge! no one's going to give a crap about this! We gotta do something..." and this guy - we'll call him Bob for now - is like "I miss X-COM." and this other guy who was talking at first - we'll call him Fred - is like "THAT'S IT! We have this X-COM name, these things are 'extraterrestrial', we'll just slap X-COM on there!" and Bob was like "But this shit is nothing like X-COM! Screw you!" and then the CEO fires Bob, but Fred's like "Wait! That's how all the fans of the X-COM name are going to react! And they'll voice their opinions on the webberblags! And all the people who didn't know about X-COM are going to be interested because obviously we're in the wrong for using the name like this. So people will argue about this constantly because some will say something like 'Games is art' and 'Trolling is a art'. Some will be interested to know, and will probably buy the old games to see. But they'll argue. And people will remember the game as long as they argue!"

They're using us guys. THEY KNOW WHAT WE'RE THINKING! THEY'RE IN OUR HEADS! THEY KNOW HOW TO TURN US AGAINST OURSELVES AND USE US! WERE'S MY TINFOIL HAT!!!

Am I the only person here that enjoys seeing complex and engaging bodies of work being expanded upon with a different genre?

I mean think about it, this IP was as good as dead, and any hardcore XCOM fan looking for a new iteration of the tactical squad/micromanagement concept knows well beforehand this is not it by virtue of being advertised as an FPS, right there, from the beginning. As for newcomers, they don't even know what the fuck XCOM is.

This should be analyzed on its own virtues, how good an FPS is, how well it meshes with the design elements and canon of the previous titles (given the setting, I suppose this is one of many invasions leading to XCOM's creation in 1998), etc.

Sure, you can be bitter about XCOM not having a new turn-based installment, but that doesn't mean "it didn't happen because of this". This is not some developer shitting on your precious baby, they're going to be working on this for months and months, pouring countless man-hours and effort into it. Trust me, they must love a decade-old franchise if they plan on working on it. Doesn't mean you can take for granted a good game will come out of this, but it's just something else, something new. A sidedish, if you will. You may even be surprised. They're certainly trying to. This is hardly a megalomaniac publisher shoving some highly popular intellectual property to a no-name churn house.

I could understand having a suspicious outlook on heavy IP milking, with multiple sequels and offshoots spanning several development studios in a relatively short timeframe; yet no one's tugging your nostalgia strings here. Half of you never played XCOM and the other half is well aware this is not the same thing. "Cash-in" doesn't work when the franchise has been defunct for as long as this has. At most this is a reimagining that may or may not float your boat.

The key lies knowing which battles to pick; that's game design 101. I'm sure you can make a fantastically addictive music-based game based in Thief's setting where you shoot well-timed elemental arrows or something equally absurd, but the minute you try to make this not tongue-in-cheek, you've automatically lost. Maybe it completely misses the point of Thief, but we're talking about settings, events...canon, here, if you will. And while you can sperg on how these additions completely "ruin" the series, it's probably your fault for considering it part of the series anyway.

I mean, you don't see me taking 95% percent of Deus Ex 2 seriously.

This is terrible.

50's setting is terrible
Alien design is terrible
Gameplay so far looks terrible.

Fallout 3 imo,
successfully took a turn-based game, and turned it into a successful FPS.

I'm hoping this pulls that off somehow. But so far... I'm not impressed, and I wish they wouldn't tarnish the already tarnished XCOM brand name.

You know what X-Com fans? I've never touched an X-Com game, and this looks AWESOME.

Weird. When I click the play button it says

"This Video has been removed by the user".

I cant see squat....

It does tend to look a lot like a Bioshock clone. 'Research your enemies'. Ok, just give me my camera from Bioshock.

That being said, I am willing to give it a try, provided they somehow include some deeper gameplay elements.

And for the love of framerates, please optimize the engine more! Bioshock 2 was a slow train to frustrationville, even on a high-end system.

First you had to sully the system shock name, now this?
http://agentpothead.com/facepalm.jpg

X-COM nerd rage activate!

I really don't see how they can call this an X-Com game...

1. X-com took place in the late 90's, not the 50's. Is this Destroy All Humans, or X-com?
2. X-Com were tactical strategy games, this is clearly not.
3. X-Com's aliens had a distinctive look. They were called Sectoids. They weren't black oil from X-Files.

Create your own IP! Stop being lazy and trying to cash in on a name. People who played X-Com played it because they liked what it was, not because they really wished it could be another mindless shoot-em-up game... If your game can't be successful by standing on its own feet, then you shouldn't waste time making it, hoping to fool people into buying it because it's named after a successful franchise that people loved.

I am actually more interested in playing an FPS iteration of X-COM than I would be to play a remake which kept the same game mechanics as the original. I did not get into the original very much. I found micromanaging movement points and the slow pace of combat to be quite tedious.

That being said, this could either be a good FPS or a bad FPS, and it is still a bit hard to tell from this gameplay trailer which this game will turn out to be. I am kind of hoping it is an open-world environment, since I think it would be cool to explore a 1950's setting.

This may provide a fresh take but it looks pretty "meh" all of that aside. Total non-interest in this. Too bad they missed their chance to remake this amazing classic game in the best genre possible for it. Utter fail in that regard, I'm afraid. So sad. :(

The people behind these monsters are obviously British Petroleum.

OK I fucking HATE tiny little enemies that are extremely fast and jump around all the time, and that looked like the whole damn game is full of them so I'll be staying the hell away.

Geth stalkers, Headcrabs, Crawlers from killing floor that nibble my ankles to death, Jockey's, those dude's from FEAR that crawled around, etc. etc. etc. - I just can't stand them.

bad company 2 xcom mod would be great!

I'll withhold judgment and say that this could be a decent game.

I think using the name XCOM dredged up a lot of people's memories about a game type that still has yet to be successfully emulated (Rainbow Six was probably the only one that got remotely close.) Then disappointment set in when we all saw how this was another IP shoe-horned into the same mass-appeal mold.

There's business at work here. Games are increasingly expensive to make, and niche play styles risk disappointing sales. I'm not sure if by "disappointing" it's taken to mean "did not make back development costs", or "it didn't make billions like MW2".

It's possible that a true-to-original XCOM remake would have worked. But I get the impression that it's still seen as too risky for most. Everyone wants to make the next WoW or MW2, or at least a broad-appeal game. Until that model starts to die out (which is not likely so long as sales figures continue the way they do) then I think we'll be enduring this for some time to come.

Can someone explain why some feds in fedoras are tasked with hunting down/stopping the alien invasion and not some branch of the military?

Everyone who wasn't zero years old when the real X-COM was released will hate this and the name will not mean shit to the rest. Might as well called it X-blobs.

Saying "From the creators of BioShock" is kind of a misnomer, since Irrational has nothing to do with this game.

I don't know, this looks far too hardcore. I think it would be better to make an Alien aerobic game based on the "UFO IP" or something like that. Or a rythm game with "outer space music"?

I mean with an fantastic, popular IP like that, it really would be the best idea to make a game for everyone! My uncle liked Wii bowling soo much, that would be the ideal game for "UFO"!


;)

For the critics of the "blobs" and the art: The blobs are reminiscent of some sort of nanotech von neumann probes described in tons of science fiction so I think they are kind of cool. As far as the art, do you guys not understand what the word "stylized" means?

Another IP shat on by the remake brigade.

I thought this shit was limited to Hollywood, clearly others are jumping on the bandwagon.

Shitty games ensue...

Why does everything Irrational does now need to take place in the 50s? Bioshock, Freedom Force and now X-Com. Can they find another era to draw on. I have a lot of love for Irrational but leave the 50s alone. Find another time period to draw inspiration from or go into the future and make something fresh and new. The 50s is getting as overplayed by Irrational as WWII by shooters in general.

Wow, new record for derivative content.

1) Color filter. I was ready to see a redheaded clown with sunglasses make a pithy comment, followed by "YEAHHHHHHHH!"

2) Destroy All Humans.

3) Black oil from X-Files, or is it from....BP?!

4) Scanners! Lightning Guns! Who ya gonna call?

5) Monster megalith... "My God..." "No... Not your God... this one is mine! LEVIATHAN! LORD OF THE LABYRINTH!"

I think that's all, but that's enough.

But, but... how can you all say it's crap? "It's from 2K Games, THE MAKERS OF BIOSHOCK". ;-) I pre-order after that....

So the aliens have been here all along, buried under the earth's crust, and formed a symbiotic relationship with common crude oil; the terrible truth behind the Gulf oil spill is that it's an alien invasion!

Why does EVERYTHING have to be a fucking shooter! This looks like shit.
This better be the first 15 minutes of the game, cause this aint no X-Com

Is it just me? Or do the graphics look really dated... the game looks like an uprezed version of the Max Payne engine.

It just doesn't look right...

And it looks like I was right all along. This is going to be horrible. But hey, stranger things have happened.

This looks neither interesting or fun. :(

The trailer is weird because it shows all this action. If this isn't really an action focused game then I think the game might be good. But I saw shot after shot of the same black blob doing different things. The combat did not seem to fit the beginning of the trailer - it turned into 'bioshock on land' or something

Just a thought... how hard would it be to incorporate old-school X-COM playstyle (instead of an FPS) into a console title? My gut tells me they looked at the original and said "very".

I find those aliens look really... uninteresting. Slime jumping around is boring to me.

This may not be what some of you old school dudes want but I think this looks awesome.

Look as fun as a dentist appointement.