Comments on: X-Comeback

By: zircher

zircher — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:36:39 +0000

Heh, even if they made it a Flash game, I’d probably buy it. Personally, if they combined 3d (like Incubation) with semi real-time (like Fallout: Tactics) while keeping a lot of the strategic elements I’d be very happy.
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TAZ

By: 2ds

2ds — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:43:54 +0000

the destructable terrain and interactivity with 3d objects with supposed to be one of the major selling points of the dreamland chronicles. I’ve tried ufo AI and the writing in the game is awesome but the lack of desctructable terrain completely turned me off, also it just didn’t have the atmosphere that UFO and to a lesser extent TFTD did. Also the aftershock / afterlight / etc games while they had alot of the check boxes also were completely unable to capture any of the atmosphere of the original.

By: Sal

Sal — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:31:23 +0000

what ever happen to the FPS version of XCOM? This is one of those things…if it isnt done right, its going to suck

By: iainl

iainl — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:36:38 +0000

If it doesn’t say Gollop, it’s not XCOM.

A port of the original to XBox Live Arcade would be nice, as the only problem I have with my current copy is waiting for my Amiga 1200 to finish making its moves. The PC is running Vista, so I can’t get that release…

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:32:25 +0000

I’ve never, ever played an X-Com, and I’d wager a lot of people a bit younger then me wouldn’t have played it either, so I’m quite interested to see what direction this new one will go in

By: KingMob

KingMob — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:24:51 +0000

Sorry, I played the demo for Freedom Force and – because it was realtime rather than turn-based – it went too fast for me. I wanted to keep pausing, but then it didn’t seem to work right either… I can’t agree that a Freedom Force-type treatment would be okay.

By: Valentin Galea

Valentin Galea — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:46:11 +0000

Since Levine is the current reincarnation of GOD, this will be a success!

By: MisterBritish

MisterBritish — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:03:17 +0000

It’s worth money because pretty much anyone who has a history of pc gaming considers themself a fan.

By: CdrJameson

CdrJameson — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:51:21 +0000

Psh.

I can’t believe the XCom licence is worth much CASH MONEY any more. It’s not like it was a great creative setting, just some moderately generic alien-o-tat thing to hang more excellent helpings of Gollopgame from (See: all non-Gollop sequels)

And For God’s Sake Don’t Call them the UFO games, or Zombie Gerry Anderson on Strings will come and eat your brains. AND HE’S NOT EVEN DEAD YET.

So there.

By: David

David — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:47:43 +0000

Being a huge TBS fans, normally I would agree with everyone demanding that it be turn-based. But, if it’s actually being developed by Levine and co. at 2K Boston, then it’s being made by the developers of one of the best Real-Time Pausable/Tactical/Whatevers: Freedom Force.

If anyone can capture the same tense atmosphere and brutal fun of the original X-Com, it’s them. And possibly Bioware, although they’d likely be too preoccupied writing dialogue trees.

By: Wolfman

Wolfman — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:39:25 +0000

I’d like to know how many big budget official remakes of “classic” old games have actually turned out to be decent (above average) games, and how many have turned out to be rubbish. Might be an interesting read.

But I can’t think of many. Populous 3 anyone? :’(

-wolfman

By: Turin Turambar

Turin Turambar — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:56:55 +0000

“…and I shall be excited and optimistic until the unlikely event that I see anything to suggest it won’t be absolutely brilliant’.”

I prefer to be pesimistic until the unlikely event that i see something to suggest it will be absolutely brilliant.