How XCOM Came Back From The Dead

Perfect video series. Best (original!) Gamespot content these days. Kudos, Danny & Co.

Hardly from the dead, huge cult following there was at least a knock off every year where xcom kept getting mentioned. UFO series and there was another one.

Something that died, that I would love to see brought back is one of bullfrogs franchies; either black & white or dungeon keeper.

they did the things right, they adjusted to the new generation without losing their true roots, let's take somene who did it wrong, capcom they don't know how to adjust to the actual generation without losing their roots, thumbs up to xcom developers they know what they do

Xcom Enemy Unknown is a fantastic game.

And I never really liked turned-based games before playing it. A wonderful wonderful game in general, regardless of genre.

Sweeeeeeeeeet emoooooootioooooooon.

Also, I love XCOM.

That opening, where he's talking about design, is something a lot of gamers should watch and remember.

I like remake, but I also see five big cons of tactical mode:

1. Small non-randomly generated maps. Self-explanatory.

2. Physics had no impact on combat. That was probably my biggest letdown. Such a shame that Firaxis didn't use physics engine to create new combat situations. E.g. grenade explosion could throw away a soldier or an alien. The same with shotgun blast. If you would destroy a house floor, whole building could collapse causing death/injuries of every character inside of it.. Unfortunately environment wasn't totally destructable which is another minus.

3. Fairly small amounts of equipment and lack of inventory. It's a limitation that have no sense at all in a game like XCOM.

4. Dynamic spawning. This is something that really pissed me off. Aliens weren't set up just before a battle. They were randomly spawned when player was close to their area of control and 'cinematically' set up. That would cause ridiculous situations, when aliens were being spawned in a place which I checked one turn earlier. Obviously after loading save file, aliens were being spawned elsewhere.

5. Lack of proper optimization for mouse and keyboard on PC and TV-focused interface. Gamepad was a basic control device, which is completely unacceptable in a computer tactical game. It should be the other way around! Effects? Too much clicking in situations when attack, movement or anything else could be activated by single click. Throwing a grenade through half of the map was a nightmare. Controls just went crazy without possibility of zooming out in aiming mode.