2K Games has announced that it will release the forthcoming XCOM reboot on 9 March, 2012. Previously slated as a PC and Xbox 360 exclusive, 2K has now confirmed that it will also be released on PS3.
“XCOM is a gripping tactical action experience set in mid-century America, where the player leads an elite field team of specialised government agents into battle – combining deep, visceral gunplay with powerful sci-fi abilities.”
Together, they face a vicious and otherworldly enemy, who conspires to shatter our world and rebuild it in their own image.”
Last year we got to see the game in action at E3, and at the time it seemed like a fairly intriguing modern rebuild of an old classic.
The game takes place in 1950’s USA, amidst the pervasive height of the nuclear family. Every home has 2.5 children, a cat, a dog, and a white picket fence. Belying this desperately perfect exterior however, is something dark and insidious. Something, dangerous and corrupting. Something, Alien…
The gameplay presentation we were given kicked off inside a military hangar. This, Whitney tells us, serves as the player’s base of operations. From here your team researches new technologies and monitors the alien threat that is sweeping across the US largely unnoticed. He walks us around the hangar, which is adorned by period accurate decor. Everything from the parked trucks, to the outfits worn by agents seems to have stepped straight off the set of a Grace Kelly movie.
Read more in our E3 2010 XCOM first impressions.
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