XCOM (2011)

Description: Featuring a bold new origin story told from a first-person perspective, XCOM pits Special Agent William Carter and his veteran team against the threat of human extinction. But every enemy is an opportunity players will strike surgically against the alien menace, capture their technology, and by the science of desperation turn the invaders' weapons against them. Armed with these lethal new tools of war, players will command their squad on XCOM's front lines: Main Street, USA.

Genre: First-Person Shooter

Studio: 2K Games

Offical Website: http://www.xcom.com/

Rating: Game Rating

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06/04/2012 @ 9:07 PM

XCOM: Enemy Unknown E3 2012 trailer makes a final stand

Check out Firaxis's take on the venerable XCOM property in the new trailer through the break. The RPG, strategy, tactical action hybrid hits PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in October.

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03/16/2012 @ 9:45 AM

XCOM: Enemy Unknown PC packs mod support, unique UI

Firaxis is ticking a lot of the right boxes in "reimagining" the much-loved tactical series X-COM for modern audiences with XCOM: Enemy Unknown , certainly more than the FPS XCOM . The developer's shared a few details on the PC edition now, ticking more boxes with support for modding and a "unique" UI especially for PC. Asked by PC Gamer whether the PC edition would use the controller-based interface seen so far, lead designer Jake Solomon's answer was clear: "No, no, no. Nooo. Oh man, no. I wouldn't do that to you, are you kidding me? No." "We have a team that's doing the PC UI, and there are some elements where it can make sense to use the base, like when we have menus and things like that, but our tactical UI is a standalone PC tactical UI." He added, "And so we have a PC tactical UI that we're working on that is distinct, because obviously mouse driven with a tactical ga (Read More)

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03/06/2012 @ 1:30 PM

Bringing XCOM: Enemy Unknown to a modern console audience

X-COM: UFO Defense is almost 20 years old, and gaming has changed immeasurably since its release on the PC in 1994. With XCOM: Enemy Unknown , its re-imagining of that strategy title, Firaxis Games has the unenviable task (Read More)

Samit Sarkar, Destructoid