OXM: Why XCOM is a poor remake... but a promising shooter

OXM UK: "In many ways, the hard part of XCOM's public perceptions battle is over. With the gulf between the new game and its 1994 namesake painfully clear, we can focus on what 2K Marin may add to the hackneyed concept of a "thinking man's shooter", rather than which aspects of a decade-old PC title it claims to restore."

[dirigiblebill]

Is there any reason to slate this game right now other than that it patently isn't X-Com? Thought the recent trailer looked great, myself.

[lazertroy]

When it was 360 exclusive we weren't hearing all of this lol.

[NYC_Gamer]

people who played the original been complaining about these mainstream changes

[Active Reload]

It was never a 360 exclusive.

Edit: What retard disagreed? Enlighten me on what I'm wrong about.

[Kon]

No. Fans always complained. You always make baseless comments?

[NukaCola]

You mean to say "When it wasn't coming to PS3"? It was a PC game too. Wonder if the next Metro will get the same treatment now that it's on PS3. Never interested anyway, the concept looked cool, but the graphics and presentations were atrocious. I think the original Xcom fans are pissed this reinvention is bollocks.

[dirigiblebill]

Anybody think it's possible they'll farm out the turn-based tactics side of the franchise to some other developer, perhaps for a handheld release?

[Jdoki]

Feels like this game is just cashing in on the XCOM name, but if it's good... I can live with that!

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Here is the problem, X-com isn't a "remake" of the original X-com. It's a re-boot / re-envisioning of a take on the game canon. It's the X-com universe / concept taken to a FPS shooter and they are plopping in some tactical elements to keep tradionalists happy.

[Tikicobra]

This would have been so much better as an RTS.

[Dark_Overlord]

Drop the XCOM brand name and everyone will be happy :)

[hazelamy]

maybe it'll actually be a fantastic game.
but it's not frakking xcom.
they're just piggybacking their title on the xcom brand, and other than the title has little relation to xcom.
much like that gotham city imposters game, such an appropriate title, since it's pretending it has the even slightest connection to batman.

seriously, is the gaming industry that devoid of imagination that all they can think of doing with these properties, like shadowrun, front mission, xcom and batman, is to turn them into yet another frakking shooter?

and no, giving you a command wheel like in mass effect does not turn that bloody fps into an xcom game.

if their game is good enough sell it on it's own merits, don't sully the name of a widely adored franchise by using it as nothing more than a way to market the game.

i'm not a big fan of brink, but at least the developers had the guts to sell the game on it's own merits without slapping somebody else's ip on it.