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It’s Like XCOM, But In Real Time. With Fedoras.
7The XCOM shooter is looking less like a shooter and more like an XCOM every day. In this new trailer for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (now that’s a mouthful), you can see some of the game’s third-person, fedora-stuffed, XCOMish tactical combat in action.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown To Hit iOS This Week
Firaxis, developers of Enemy Unknown, the latest instalment in the long-standing XCOM series of tactical RPG/strategy games, announced that the game’s iOS port will be arriving in just three days’ time, on Thursday. Enemy Unknown for iOS will be a universal app featuring GameCenter and iCloud support; “the complete XCOM experience of the console and…
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30 Minutes With The Bureau: At Least That Old XCOM Shooter LOOKS Cool
For a brief few seconds while playing through a 30-minute slice of 2K Games’ upcoming XCOM game, I thought I was in 2010. Now, you might say, ‘waitaminnit, The Bureau‘s set in 1962, isn’t it?’ You’d be right. But, there’s an unmistakable whiff of Mass Effect — specifically ME2, when the series became much more…
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That XCOM FPS Isn’t Dead. And It Isn’t An FPS Anymore.
The XCOM we got last year wasn’t supposed to be the one leading the rebirth of the beloved sci-fi strategy franchise. No, great as XCOM: Enemy Unknown was, it was a Johnny-come-lately. Back in 2010, there was another XCOM shown at E3, a game that re-imagined the humans-vs-aliens conflict as a first-person-shooter set in the…