The X-COM franchise has earned its place in some of the biggest video game polls ever, often placing in the top ten in categories such as ‘Top 25 PC games of all time’ by IGN and ‘Best Video Games since ‘92’ by Pelit. Critically acclaimed UFO: Enemy Unknown (later released as X-COM: UFO Defence and X-com: Enemy Unknown), developed by Mythos Games in 1994, was the first of the X-COM series and it soon gathered a cult following.
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Only game iam waiting for is for mafia 2 nothing else intrest me well only Metal gear solid peace walkers but ill get that soon
nice. waiting to see what mafia 2 and spec ops the line has too offer. not into rts games, so civ 5 not for me, and not too familiar with x-com series.
COG: A group of industry veterans from the XCOM franchise have teamed up to launch the new turned-based tactics studio Bit Reactor.
From the *new* Xcom franchise. The original was developed by Julian Gollop and Mythos games. He is currently in charge of Snapshot games and his latest take on Xcom was Phoenix Point.
I'm all for more tactics games. played Phoenix Point on Game Pass (ended up purchasing it), it's good...but doesn't have that same XCOM 2 feeling. Would love to see what these guys have to offer
Due to Firaxis’ overall success with the reimagined XCOM series, the XCOM name has become a catchall term for tactical role-playing games in general, which is unfair to the entirety of that subset of games.
The original 1994 Xcom is the one all others are compared to not the fireaxis version. It's also still the best.
While it saddens me to see another classic game turn into yet another FPS I never really heard of X-COM until the remake was announced. It sounded like one of their original plans to make the gameplay similar to Valkyria Chronicles would have made everyone happy, but they decided to scrap that and go with an altered approach.
The new gameplay sounds more like BIA:Hell's Highway, but maybe the new XCOM will actually turn out to be okay, that is if it ever gets released.