GamesRadar - When XCOM was revealed in 2010, it had more in common with BioShock than it did with 1994's UFO Defense. The moody first-person shooter was being made by 2K Marin--the developer behind BioShock 2--and tasked players with investigating a strange alien threat invading rural America in the 1950s. But after its reveal, the developers went silent for a year... until showing it off again as a hybrid first/third-person shooter. Just as before, the reveal was followed by silence, and speculation that the "XCOM shooter" was secretly cancelled.
BLG writes: "COM games have been around for nearly three decades at this point in some form or another. While XCOM never managed to reach the same heights of success as other long-running franchises, the series definitely has its fair share of fans. With XCOM 3 likely still a couple of years away, we figured we’d reminisce a bit about previous games in the series and try to rank them all from worst to best."
I would have put the original game at number one if it didn't crash all the time.
Have the suspense was know if it was going to load the next round of not.
I know these are ranking the "XCOM" games. However, Phoenix Point, which is made by the same team, is much better than all of the XCOM games. Just my opinion though. lol
That's not quite accurate. Phoenix Point was made by Julian Gollop, the guy who designed the original X-COM games. The new XCOM games from 2012 onward were made by Firaxis and/or other subsidiaries of 2K Games.
Xcom 1&2 above the original o_O ..... hell no
The more recent games were a massive downgrade (1 was an unfinished mess of a game XD)
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified was one of the last significant releases of the seventh console generation and one of its most troubled games. It began development in 2006 but wasn’t released until 2013. It was initially unveiled as a first-person horror shooter, then turned into a third-person tactical RPG shooter. The incredibly ambitious game was hamstrung by enough drama to fill its own story.
We need more articles like this one. Every site writes about the same exact shit as every other site. Pick any game and every site follows the same pattern: Game Announcement, Teaser Trailer, Release Date, Full Trailer, Director says X, Producer says Y, Game Review, DLC announcement, post-mortem. If you read Polygon or Kotaku, toss in some articles about butts or race. This was incredibly refreshing.
Because... America – f*ck yeah!
I don't remember if you save the world in that game but Urban Chaos: Riot Response was one of the most american games back in the day, I've never even been to the country and that game was still rad.
At the very least it gives a good look at the development process. You get to see how much a game can be changed.
i was enjoying xcom until my ps3 ylod,i will give this game a chance on the 360 depending on reviews if its not worth the 60 then ill wait until a price drop.
It does look pretty good. But after all that work, they decided to use two squad members, tactical 3rd person in which main character can slow time with a radial menu and issue cool down commands. Sound familiar? Oh yeah, its exactly what mass effect does. Good thing b/c I love it. The multiplayer was highly underrated. And its the perfect system for a 3rd person xcom game. I just can't imagine that anyone didn't mention this idea earlier and it just happened to end up this way.