XCOM E3 Trailer

So, I was on the Game Trailers site to see if they had any new updates on any games, and I found this trailer for the new XCOM game.

XCOM E3 Trailer

First, I will say that it looks cool. It looks interesting, and I will be keeping my eye on this game. Next, I will say that I am worried. This looks nothing like any of the old X-Com games I have played. I was expecting to be blasting Sectoids and Snakemen in a 3D environment with updated graphics. These black blobs look more like they come from an X-Files rerun than anything to do with X-Com. Also, why does it look like the 1940s? The first X-Com organization wasn't formed until the late 1990's.

My hope is that the game starts off in a flashback. Say, you get to play a time in the 1940's when the aliens first attacked a neighborhood on Earth. After this, the game really starts, in a more modern setting, with more familiar X-Com elements. 2K Games has some explaining to do. What do you guys think?

I never played X-com, but I thought that trailer looked terrible. I seem to be alone on this thoe.

That is kind of sad. I knew a XCOM named game was being worked on and I was hoping it was a remake or at least a TBS game similar to the original XCOM. Instead we get another FPS using the name of a classic game.

Well, hopefully it turns out to be at least a decent shooter.

Disappointed.

graphics are horrible - and plot reminds me Prey, just make Prey 2 - I don't need another crappy game similar to one already exist

graphics are horrible - and plot reminds me Prey, just make Prey 2 - I don't need another crappy game similar to one already exist

PredatorRules

Don't know what trailer you saw but I'd say the graphics were the best part of that 2 mins. In fact I wouldn't be suprised to learn they used some post processing or prerendering effects to get such high edge fidelity. The solid body physics as well as the liquid physics were some of the best I have seen in a game.

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graphics are horrible - and plot reminds me Prey, just make Prey 2 - I don't need another crappy game similar to one already exist

B45AK

Don't know what trailer you saw but I'd say the graphics were the best part of that 2 mins. In fact I wouldn't be suprised to learn they used some post processing or prerendering effects to get such high edge fidelity. The solid body physics as well as the liquid physics were some of the best I have seen in a game.

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graphics are horrible - and plot reminds me Prey, just make Prey 2 - I don't need another crappy game similar to one already exist

B45AK

Don't know what trailer you saw but I'd say the graphics were the best part of that 2 mins. In fact I wouldn't be suprised to learn they used some post processing or prerendering effects to get such high edge fidelity. The solid body physics as well as the liquid physics were some of the best I have seen in a game.

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graphics are horrible - and plot reminds me Prey, just make Prey 2 - I don't need another crappy game similar to one already exist

DragonfireXZ95

Don't know what trailer you saw but I'd say the graphics were the best part of that 2 mins. In fact I wouldn't be suprised to learn they used some post processing or prerendering effects to get such high edge fidelity. The solid body physics as well as the liquid physics were some of the best I have seen in a game.

Very impressive art styIe.

ITT: people that never bothered to read a preview and make stupid claims about the gameplay.

Why black blobs out of everything? I don't want to be shooting black blobs, it will be so unsatisfying.

Why black blobs out of everything? I don't want to be shooting black blobs, it will be so unsatisfying.

cyborg100000

my god, that looks just...awful.

I would have preferred the Bioshock developers instead of the Bioshock 2 developers. Bioshock 2 lost some of its more puzzle-like features.

I would have preferred the Bioshock developers instead of the Bioshock 2 developers. Bioshock 2 lost some of its more puzzle-like features.

Falconoffury

I never played X-com, but I thought that trailer looked terrible. I seem to be alone on this thoe.

JangoWuzHere

LOL, "study them...**pow **pow** **pow**!"

graphics are horrible - and plot reminds me Prey, just make Prey 2 - I don't need another crappy game similar to one already exist

PredatorRules

Looks pretty terrible to me. you get to shoot black globs of oil......mmmkkk.

Killed what little interest I had left in the title. Most was gone after I read that it'd be an FPS. Lame.

Whats with all the people saying the graphics are bad? Do you people mean the art style? The visual quality is top notch, thats some pretty technology right there.

Looks just amazing! :o :D

Of course, there will always be those "I don't like anything, nothing is up to my standards" morose, acrimonious pseudo-profound kind of statements about something they just can't know (because there are not enough elements yet).

Too soon to say anything, but apparently there are those who already condemned the game solely by its name... :|

Telling from what I saw and read (the PC Gamer preview topic), this game can be a mark in the FPS history. And I hope so. 8)

From that trailer, yeah game looks pretty darn bad in ALL areas. I want a slower, thinking mans X-COM game; not some blurry, action fest, take a picture here and there, blob shooter. Trailer reminded me of Ghostbuster game.

Looks just amazing! :o :D

Of course, there will always be those "I don't like anything, nothing is up to my standards" morose, acrimonious pseudo-profound kind of statements about something they just can't know (because there are not enough elements yet).

Too soon to say anything, but apparently there are those who already condemned the game solely by its name... :|

Telling from what I saw and read (the PC Gamer preview topic), this game can be a mark in the FPS history. And I hope so. 8)

Lithos_

Looks just amazing! :o :D

Of course, there will always be those "I don't like anything, nothing is up to my standards" morose, acrimonious pseudo-profound kind of statements about something they just can't know (because there are not enough elements yet).

Too soon to say anything, but apparently there are those who already condemned the game solely by its name... :|

Telling from what I saw and read (the PC Gamer preview topic), this game can be a mark in the FPS history. And I hope so. 8)

Lithos_

Agree, I think them using the X-COM name was a bad idea. I doubt the vast maority of the more casual gamers (the people that don't browse these forums) will associate the name to anything. The only people who will have expectations on that name are the people who played the original. I don't see what benefits they had in calling it X-Com. They should just have branded it as a new IP.

Also can you link to this article you speak of please?

Also can you link to this article you speak of please?

B45AK

Here... The preview was up only for a few days before the magazine shipped across the UK, but I pasted some info.

Agree, I think them using the X-COM name was a bad idea. I doubt the vast maority of the more casual gamers (the people that don't browse these forums) will associate the name to anything. The only people who will have expectations on that name are the people who played the original. I don't see what benefits they had in calling it X-Com. They should just have branded it as a new IP.

Also can you link to this article you speak of please?

B45AK

Sure, here you go: http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27311384&tag=topics%3Btitle.

Edit: Oops... I missed the lat post. :oops: Edit 2: laSt post... argh!

Thanks guys, I'm really looking forward to seeing how this turns out now :D

I would have preferred the Bioshock developers instead of the Bioshock 2 developers. Bioshock 2 lost some of its more puzzle-like features.

Falconoffury

This is the Australia studio (which is now for some reason called 2K Marin as well as the 2K Marin studio). They helped make both games but they weren't the main developer for either.

graphics are horrible - and plot reminds me Prey, just make Prey 2 - I don't need another crappy game similar to one already exist

PredatorRules