Publisher Take-Two has announced that its current-gen reboot XCOM will be released a little later than previously expected.
The game was previously going to be released on 9 March 2012, but now has now been pushed back to as late as March 2013.
Incidentally, Mass Effect 3 is currently scheduled for 9 March, so it may well be the case that Take-Two simply does not want to compete with Bioware‘s behemoth for sales.
No reason was provided for the delay, which was confirmed during the publisher’s quarterly financial report earlier today.
We got a chance to check out XCOM at E3 2010. Below is an excerpt from our first impressions feature.
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.
Source: Take-Two Interactive
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