E3 2010: XCOM Is a "Strategic Shooter" in Name Only

XCOM is big on 50s savor, but where's the scheme?

For many, the title X-COM brings back warm memories of military science turn-founded strategy. 2K Marin's reboot of the franchise is gunning for a more visceral foremost-person experience. In a way decked out with many a 1950s stereotypes of wholesomeness and Donna Reed-style décor, manufacturer Drew Smith and designer Harvey Whitney showed us what this new XCOM is all about.

You play as William James Earl Carter Jr., a special broker in charge of a secret organization called XCOM. Carter is the guy who determined an alien artefact that portended the invasion that's at present taking place, and instigated the creation of XCOM. The present began by taking us into the base of trading operations which was hidden in a non-descript airplane hangar. The savour of the 50s is in abundance, with agents quipping as Carter walks by, "I wear't like the feeling that someone's look up my wazoo with a microscope, you know what I'm saying?" Only a clean-cut agent from that age would use a word care "wazoo" and actually mean it.

At the comm center is a map of the United States where all of the selective information gleaned from radio and police broadcasts is filtered for possible alien natural action. The map shows possible missions that you can undertake, from helping a woman's 911 (did they take in 911 in the 50s?) distress bid to ways to gain money or Elerium. "Elerium is an strange resource that we need to keep XCOM going," says David Roland Smith. "We arse also give way amass money, we sack go do research, etc. You should note that when you woof a deputation, you're doing something at the potential sacrifice of another mission. If we bring out, for representative, the Golden State mission, past the Montana surgery Sooner State missions may not be easy when you come back." I suppose that this is a strategic decisiveness but it feels like-minded the player will be missing out on content as an alternative of feeling that they are making a strong superior.

The demo went with the woman's distress call in California, but first we have to receive some new tech gizmos. A scientist named Mal has been using the strange artefact that Howard Carter found, along with Elerium, to make weapons that use the alien's tech against them. We grabbed a glass vial filled with parts of a black blob (an enemy that you encounter in the game). This "blob-otov cocktail" bursts into flame up when it's tangled, which Mal demonstrates for U.S.A. In a nice departure, Mal is a Buddy Holly bespectacled 50s greaser, instead of the standard Q (from Bond movies) dead ringer.

The mission sent us to a 50s neighborhood, and we tracked a blob chase away into a domiciliate. Here, the gameplay devolved into your standard hit man. Carter and his agents blessed away at a serial publication of creepy black blobs with shotguns and blobotovs. Other artillery was showcased, the lightning gun, but information technology didn't seem abominably effective against the aliens. The woman blessed, the agents needed to make their way back to the car to get spine to base. Unfortunately, a huge disaffect disturbance showed up in the sky and lyre-shaped a circle of rock which sent rays at us that vaporized everything in the shaft. Distinctly, Carter is sledding to need some large guns.

The radical XCOM from 2K Marin is too large on 50s flavour, but the shooter gameplay feels like much of what you've played ahead. Here's hoping that when the game comes out (slated for 2011), there's more of the scheme that you would expect from the successor to the X-COM that many gamers loved.

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