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source is various articles around the net, including this thread up a few posts or you can look here: http://forums.2kgames.com/showthread.php?117098-New-info-from-game-informer!THANK YOU. Reading the thread now.
But consider what we know for sure:SOURCE. SOURCE GODDAMMIT.
Console title by big name developer
Heavy class-based RPG elements
High customization
4 soldiers at a time (maybe more later)
Unlimited ammo
No TU's
dumbed down strategic portion (one base, less management, possibly no base construction/customization at all only upgrading)
You want this baby? Eat it.Oh, how we laughed and laughed,Remember when that lion tried to kill my baby twice?*Slow clap processor engaged*Oh good, that still works.
*clap*
*clap*
*clap*
Except it wasn't laughing...
Seriously, where is everyone getting the idea that this X-COM will be like that, rather than the classic gameplay? I want sources dammit, not wild speculations. Show me where the developers stated that players would have a small squad of super soldiers instead of more generic cannon fodder.Probably the best speculation thus far is that the game is not really a successor to X-Com, but rather Jagged Alliance vs. Aliens.
Which isn't a bad thing, just a bit jarring.
That's what I was thinking about earlier, it does seem like it might be the case. In JA2 you had tough troops who rarely (if ever) died, but it worked because it was very much an action hero movie type game - you had the elite veteran mercs (well, most of them) mowing down dozens of nameless generic mooks.
I don't think it's a good fit for x-com though. Part of the appeal was that it was a desperate war against a terrifying enemy. If x-com is reduced to action heroes vs bumbling cannon fodder aliens... it loses something important. It's one thing to liberate a 3rd world craphole country with minimal losses, but it's quite a different thing to save the whole planet earth from a massive invasion by technologically superior aliens with 4 guys and maybe a token death here and there.
Maybe it could end up being a decent game... but it won't really have the soul of x-com.
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