Julian Gollop's X-Com spawned a franchise, and remains the gold standard for tense, turn-based strategy games. Now, he is reviving another game from his past - the fast-paced wizard war of Chaos - with 'Chaos Reborn', an ambitious reimagining seeking funding on Kickstarter.
From PC Gamer: "X-COM: UFO Defense, known as UFO: Enemy Unknown here in the UK, is an integral part of PC gaming history. It was part of the MicroProse glory days of the mid-'90s, when ground-breaking strategy games were being spat out at an unbelievable rate. It spawned sequels, questionable spin-offs, and multiple successors, spiritual and otherwise. It's an impressive legacy, and for creator Julian Gollop, the X-COM itch "never goes away".
While the X-COM/XCOM series is now 10 games deep, Gollop was only responsible for the original and Apocalypse, the third game. Of course, none of them would have existed without him, his brother Nick, and the tiny team of artists that built the game that started it all. And now you can't fire up a store like Steam or Epic without seeing countless turn-based strategy and tactics romps, many of them capitalising on the success of Firaxis's XCOM. "
Playing Expeditions Rome right now and it scratches the XCOM itch in a different way
tried phoenix point on ps4 and enjoyed it when it worked.....constant crashing (every 2-3 missions) and bugs meant i ditched it pretty quick....gave it another whirl on ps5 when they released the ps5 update and unfortunately nothing was fixed so dont think ill ever touch that again
I had issue day one also planned on going back to it after some updates. Pretty sad to here its still broke.
Since playing xcom on ps3 and xcom 2 on ps4 they are in my top. A couole of games i really go back to and play almost yearly. I loved everything about them except the loading took forever lol. Im still hoping we get the spinoff that was done and is only out for pc.
I know the next xcom will not disappoint even if i wait for goty edition cause they always have pretty good dlc. I remember getting part 2 day one and then selling it and waiting for the goty i cant say enough about it if you cant tell.
I never did get to play xcom declassified i think it was called. Maybe itll end up on ps plus or gamepass so i can finally play it.
X-COM Creator Julian Gollop and game developer Snapshot Games just launched the biggest downloadable content for Phoenix Point.
Phoenix Point has missed its day-1 release date on Xbox Game Pass for PC. 'It's down to them [Microsoft] now' says Snapshot Games
I’m not sure THAT many people were waiting for this game to launch. I’ve never even heard if it before until today.
I've really been looking forward to it but probably won't find time to play it until the new year any way
This is absolutely disgusting...Microsoft should shut down their games department if they continue acting this way.
Agreed.
The majority on here as well as media keep giving Xbox the most milquetoast pass. They don't want them. They need to bow out.
Might as well just close up shop. Sell off all their assets, burn their buildings, give all their employees severance, and buy everyone in the US a house.
