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“Accessibility is kind of a dirty word”: Firaxis on difficulty levels, multiculturalism, and more

XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a re-imagining of the 1993 PC classic XCOM: UFO Defence (or UFO: Enemy Unknown, depending on where you live), is set for release on October 12 in Australia. We sat down with Lead Designer Jake Solomon to chat about accessibility, multiculturalism, and toy boxes.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown - A Welcome Rebirth

XCOM: Enemy Unknown rebooted the series back in 2012, and has since inspired numerous new strategy game series to be born.

shinoff2183194d ago (Edited 194d ago )

If someone gets into this I'd recommend getting the enemy within version. It's got all the dlc included so it's the better version. Wish the author would've atleast mentioned it. I didn't see it.

Fantastic game though. Xcom 2 is top notch also. I've spent countless hours in these games.

ModsDoBetter194d ago

Excellent game.
Played to death on PS3 years ago.

S2Killinit194d ago

What other games were inspired by this game?

JL2930193d ago

Gears Of War Tactics, Phoenix Point. Many others.

shinoff2183193d ago

Phoenix point if I remember was created by the original xcom developer or something to that affect. I did try gears tactics some months ago and I just couldn't get into it. It's probably just me

JL2930192d ago (Edited 192d ago )

It was, but it was really closer to the newer XCOM than the older ones. Gears Tactics was okay but was hard to get into knowing there probably wont be a sequel.

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Marvel's Midnight Suns director "totally gets" the backlash around its card battles

RPS talks to Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon about how he reacted to the public negativity around its card based battle system.

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Huey_My_D_Long378d ago

Honestly game was a real pleasant surpise. I dont even like marvel like that, but I loved the gameplay. Really fun and addicting, sad to see the game just didnt do well.

SurgicalMenace378d ago

Yeah over 100 hours of play from me and I enjoyed every minute. Hope it gets the support that it deserves.

CrimsonWing69378d ago

I really loved it. It sucks it didn’t do well.

I actually want a sequel badly.

MasterChief3624378d ago

Did it inspire you to get more into Marvel at all? I know when I played Ultimate Alliance 3, I wasn't that into Marvel, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. I enjoyed it so much that I ended up seeking out lots of Marvel comics that the movies didn't touch on much yet! I was wondering if something similar happened for you after playing and falling in love with this one?

shinoff2183378d ago

I'm still looking forward to it. I have yet to buy I but I do plan to. I'm a huge xcom fan and I feel this will hit the spot. Card base battles is a bit of a turn off but I feel they could pull it off.

hotnickles378d ago

It was great until the DLC trophies bugged out and they never fixed it. I beat the game twice and then they wanted me to beat it another 4 times for the dlc trophies. That was pretty lame and I moved on.

shinoff2183378d ago

Maybe I should wait till dlc is done then lol. Damn

hotnickles378d ago

Yeah it’s a great game though it’s just that one issue. The dlc characters are thrown in the middle of the story and if you have already beat the game the trophies won’t unlock. You have start a new game for each dlc character lol. That’s not fun after you spend a ton of time building your decks.

The price tanked like 2 months after launch. It was bad. Wait for the last dlc and then get the complete version for 20 bucks. I recommend it. I will probably play it again someday with all of the dlc.

InUrFoxHole378d ago

Waiting for the right sales price for this one.

Bigninja378d ago

Imagine X-Com 2, with Marvel characters and powers.

Yeah, would have rather had that

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Firaxis Enters New Era with Jake Solomon Departure, New Studio Head; New Civilization in the Works

Firaxis Games is about to experience major changes at the management level. Jake Solomon is leaving, and the Studio Head is being replaced.

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shinoff2183447d ago

I hope it kinda stays the same. Maybe develop for consoles simultaneously with PC. Please also port the xcom chimera to consoles. I've seen people be down on it but I just want more xcom.