New X-COM game coming . . . and it's turn based strategy!

[Mr. Grey]

The screenshots look great!

Research was one of the best parts of the game.

[KRonn]

The screenshots look great!

Research was one of the best parts of the game.

Yeah, I liked research. I also liked building bases, though I think the game had a glitch and very rarely did your bases get attacked. I had one attack on a base that I can recall; I think not many or any more than that. It was a pretty cool situation though.

[Tonitrus]

Link to page showing a video on the art design, plus some more screenshots....

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/01/11/the-art-of-xcom-enemy-unknown.aspx

...the video also shows how the Skyranger/Interceptor look.

[Tonitrus]

[Tonitrus]

I like the aliens at the bottom of the bottom screenshot, with the elephant necks and the rubbery limbs.  The blue outfits have to go, though.

Firaxis is certainly saying all the right things, as far as I am concerned.  And it's about time they did something other than polish the turd that is Civ III+

Hah, I thought the "suits" were just placeholders in an early alpha or some such...turns out from the latest article on gameinformer.com, that they're a new enemy (the Thin Man, meant to be some kind of infiltrators).

The odd looking alien from the gas station pic above seems to be a Cyberdisc after it has "deployed" for attack.  (and you can see an undeployed one just above it).

The other "big dude" in the other pics is the Muton.

[Razgovory]

I figured the guys in suits were some sort of Men In Black types.

[Tonitrus]

The latest update had an 18min video interview with one of the developers.  Besides discussion of the basic game concepts (basically making the new game to work like the old game), the only tidbit of changes from the original is that sometimes the funding nations might give you task/make requests during a given month, instead of just adjusting their contributions at the end of the month.

[Tonitrus]

From today's update, a nice overview of tactical combat (including lots of screenshots).

Optimism = growing.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/01/26/advanced-tactics-exploring-xcom-39-s-combat-part-1.aspx

[Razgovory]

Firaxis is a good developer.  I've never bought a game from them that I thought was really bad.

[Josquius]

Firaxis is a good developer.  I've never bought a game from them that I thought was really bad.

Didn't buy the colonization remake it I guess then?

[Razgovory]

Nope.

[Tonitrus]

Firaxis is a good developer.  I've never bought a game from them that I thought was really bad.

Didn't buy the colonization remake it I guess then?

I hadn't either, as I figured it was really just a glorified Civ IV mod.

[MadImmortalMan]

Firaxis is a good developer.  I've never bought a game from them that I thought was really bad.

Didn't buy the colonization remake it I guess then?

I hadn't either, as I figured it was really just a glorified Civ IV mod.

It was a non-glorified one.

[Josquius]

I never bought it but I can recall briefly playing it (A  demo maybe? Can't remember).
It sucked big style.

[Tonitrus]

Part 2 on tactical combat...

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/01/28/advanced-tactics-exploring-xcom-39-s-combat-part-2.aspx

If anything, tactical combat/strategy is looking to be much more intricate than in the original.