XCOM FPS Pushed To 2013, Firaxis Strategy Reboot Still Set For 2012

10 responses to “XCOM FPS Pushed To 2013, Firaxis Strategy Reboot Still Set For 2012”

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   D.C.

   January 16, 2012 at 8:48 am

   I hope the XCOM FPS is being actively worked on and not just shelved until 2013, don’t want it to get dated. It’s probably a good idea to create good will with XCOM fans with a traditional game, who then might be more open to a non-conventional incarnation later on.

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      j-man

      January 16, 2012 at 9:05 am

      well put, i hope it doesn’t turn into starcraft:GHOST. This fps thing could be solid game

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   Cymelion

   January 16, 2012 at 9:12 am

   Hope the FPS gets canned – looked exceedingly bad.

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      N3RD1001101

      January 16, 2012 at 11:29 am

      You, my friend need to hold up on the alcohol.

      …Its the same thing that happens everytime a company decides to take a slightly different approach. Just stay open minded, and wait and see. Most decade long franchises have all had a bad sideliner. Then again theres been some good ones.

      I know there are some people who are saying “not another FPS”. There is obviously a reason for it – demand.

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   rob

   January 16, 2012 at 11:21 am

   hope the FPS **doesn’t** get canned – and therefore not cause another Australian/Canberra studio to layoff it’s workforce ,,,

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   ash

   January 16, 2012 at 1:03 pm

   The FPS game does look good, I like the setting, but it does feel like it’s just using the XCOM name for the popularity of it. I am definitely looking forward to Enemy Unknown reimagining.

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   Raf

   January 16, 2012 at 4:09 pm

   Couldn’t care less about the FPS, excited for the strategy game (especially since Firaxis is on the case… I know X-Com wasn’t a Sid Meier, but it still feels like the series is back “home” due to the Microprose connection).

   Ever since they announced the strategy game, I assumed this would happen. Using the strategy game to rekindle interest in the X-COM world and get some momentum up for the FPS is smarter than torpedoing the IP by launching the FPS first with no buzz into a crowded FPS market.

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   Yazman

   January 16, 2012 at 4:37 pm

   I’m hoping the FPS gets canned, it doesn’t deserve to have the X-COM name, doesn’t have anything to do with X-COM (it’s even set in the fuckin’ 50s for christ’s sake, the first one was contemporary, TFTD was meant to be futuristic).

   The FPS could have been called anything else and would do fine. It’s just them cashing in on an IP they owned so they could push an FPS.

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   N0NEoftheAB0VE

   January 16, 2012 at 9:57 pm

   I have no attachment to the original X-COM game but the new one looked good, pity its been shelved.

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   Alex K

   January 16, 2012 at 10:51 pm

   Push it back to never

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