The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

[Qalbert]

http://kotaku.com/5516654/x+com-is-back

X-Com, the classic 90's turn-based strategy game pitting mankind against alien invaders, is set to make a comeback as a first-person shooter, courtesy of the 2K studios behind BioShock 2.

The game, in development for the 360 and PC at both 2K Australia and 2K Marin, makes substantial changes to the original series, combining research and planning elements not with overhead, turn-based strategy sections, but with first-person shooter action.

"With BioShock 2, the team at 2K Marin proved themselves as masters of first-person, suspenseful storytelling, and with XCOM they will re-imagine and expand the rich lore of this revered franchise," said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. "Players will explore the world of XCOM from an immersive new perspective and experience firsthand the fear and tension of this gripping narrative ride."

what is this, I don't even

[Shojin]

fucking dumb, why the fuck did they turn it in to an FPS? Will prob pass on this

[BRP]

VIDEO GAMES IN A NUTSHELL

[Kaisha]

Way to ruin a franchise most of your customers will have never heard of nor would even have the patience and brain capacity to understand the intricacies of the original game.

[Trocian]

I played the original X-com on steam not 1 week ago. It was awesome.

[Kayatani]

To be honest, I can't really complain that they're ruining the franchise because I thought the X-COM games after the first were pretty underwhelming at best.

[dejet]

To be honest, I can't really complain that they're ruining the franchise because I thought the X-COM games after the first were pretty underwhelming at best.

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Still tho, Why do they need to go after games that almost know one knows? Leave this in the past. They screwed up after the 1st...

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

I was in love with everything X-com for about 2 years..
PC vers, Terror from the deep, PSX vers, I even bought a ps1 mouse for that shit.

This is fucking stupid, it's like making a random action movie and slapping the GI Joe franchize on it. Oh wait.

[6souls]

[Kayatani]

"When we played the original X-com games we felt almost overwhelmed with choices in between missions"
>Remove all strategic elements between missions, turn actual missions into Mass Effect 1960

I probably wouldn't be bothered at all if they just named it something else, but I genuinely do not comprehend why they based it on an existing franchise then change everything to appeal to an entirely different demographic.

[Vandole]

wow, this looks like a bioshock DLC.
kinda sad

[Dantrag]

Yeah, they fucking ruined it. The whole point of the game was the shit in between the missions. Fucking terror missions scared the shit out of me when I first played it. Turning the game into a FPS is the W O R S T thing they could have done. It's fucking lazy.

[Dantrag]

Funny thing is, they got a HUGE amount of flack when they first released info about the game. Now they claim that people are being more open about the idea. Which I call bull shit on. These games should have always been and should always stay strategy games. There is no way in hell I'll end up feeling the same attachment I did to certain soldiers in this game that I did the original X-Com. I would always look through my operatives and go through their stats. Depending on what they were good at I would either put a * or ^ at the end of their name. Shooters got * and my super psyops got ^. Fuck I miss the game. I should play it again...

I was never able to do well past the 2nd difficulty Aliens just got tough as hell.

[6souls]

XCOM delayed to 2014

http://ir.take2games.com/phoenix.zht...793&highlight=

[kisada]

as long as it's the shitty fps one and not the strategy one it's all good

[6souls]

This is the FPS knock off, I'm actually looking forward to this cause I enjoy 2k shooters, but I did bump the strategy thread with a new dev video about the base & new screen caps.

[6souls]

The much-delayed XCOM shooter has been turned into a third-person squad-based affair, newly leaked screenshots suggest.

A recent marketing survey indicates the game has been rebuilt for release on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

There's no mention of the game's originally-announced PC version.

The images suggest you'll be able to order team-mates around the map to do your bidding, although it's unclear if you can switch characters and fully control squad folk.

The questionnaire asks players whether they would pay full price for the game or prefer the title to be a cheaper, downloadable affair.

2K's XCOM shooter was first revealed back at E3 2010. It received a mixed response, and its release was subsequently delayed. Development was then switched to 2K Marin, described in the survey as "the same people who created BioShock 2".

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...m-based-report
http://kotaku.com/5947737/the-other-...person-shooter

[6souls]

XCOM name has been dropped, will now be called The Bureau

Spoiler: show

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/...om-artwork.jpg
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/...om-artwork.jpg

Last week, Take-Two registered the domains thebureau-game.com, thebureau-game.net and whathappenedin62.com. These domains seem to hint at a rebranding of 2K's beleaguered XCOM shooter, which places players in the shoes of an FBI agent in 1962. Given the success of Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown, I wouldn't be surprised if 2K thought having two very different games in different genres could dilute the franchise's brand.

The XCOM shooter has been in off-on development since 2005 and gone through a number of iterations at several studios, including 2K Australia, Irrational Games and current developer 2K Marin. Recent information suggests that 2K dropped the first-person perspective in favor of SOCOM-esque third-person tactical shooter possibly for downloadable distribution platforms.

http://kotaku.com/ghost-recon-breakf...plus-461097826

[Brill Weave]

All bumping this thread did was make me miss BRP again

[Rokku]

All bumping this thread did was make me miss BRP again

Was just thinking the same thing.