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Revision as of 14:58, 13 January 2012
This is the Ufopaedia.org news page where relevant news and site messages will appear. When this page is transcluded into other pages, only the new news items should appear there. Everything else will only display on this page. At least that is how it should work in theory.
News
X-COM fans rejoice! Firaxis Games president Steve Martin announced that his company is working on a modern remake of the very first X-COM game.
- As they're self-admitted fans of the 1993 original, they intend to stay true to the franchise in every way instead of making something X-COM in name only.
- It will return the franchise to turn-based tactical combat with real-time management but instead of TUs, soldiers can perform two actions per turn: move and take a non-movement action or move twice.
- Something about a "Classical Mode" setting the difficulty level of the original X-COM.
- NEW - sponsor countries provide a different ratio of money and resources; for example, African sponsors barely give any money but ample amounts of resources (unknown what kind of resources they mean at this point).
- More information in February 2012.
- The game is announced for the end of 2012.
- Screenshots here, more info here.
The game will focus on elite U.S. government operatives attempting to prevent a nightmarish invasion of the United States (while dropping the dash in X-COM). See:
- The official XCOM site (only a couple of trailers here)
- Some criticism of its change in focus (1, 2), although 2k Marin may be rethinking this
- 2k's XCOM forum, including passionate posts by X-Commies
- Once slated for March 2012 release, it has now slipped to a later date (1, 2).
At GamersGate, Steam and Direct2Drive. (Includes UFO, TFTD, Apoc, Int, and Enf).
For "reviews", see this.
Archived News
- NEW X-COM GAME FROM THE DEVELOPERS OF BIOSHOCK 2
Yes, this will come as a shock to all, but 2K Australia and 2K Marin is busily working on a first-person shooter based on the X-COM franchise. More info will presumably become available on the 2010 E3.
For more information/rumors check 2K's X-COM forum.