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<\/a>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/p><\/div>\n
When asked how Firaxis\u2019 turn-based reboot will exist alongside 2K Marin\u2019s shooter, Game Informer\u2019s Adam Biessener had this to say: \u201cThe shooter takes place earlier in the fiction, chronicling the aliens’ first attacks in the United States. The strategy game we’re talking about here deals with the global response to the later full-blown alien invasion of Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The game will consist mostly of turn-based strategy gameplay, but there will also be real-time strategy elements. These will be limited to \u201cthe global view, where the player keeps track of known UFOs and abductions going on around the world. Managing research and development at the XCOM organization’s secret base can be done at the player’s leisure, and all combat is completely turn-based.\u201d<\/p>\n
Firaxis is billing XCOM: Enemy Unknown as a \u201cre-imagining\u201d of the original. While it won\u2019t copy the earlier games\u2019 underlying game systems, it will adhere to the basic concepts. \u201cPlayers still have to manage multiple resources and threats on a global scale in a seemingly hopeless war against extraterrestrial forces with far better technology and capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/a>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/p><\/div>\n
Although Firaxis admits that it will be \u201cstreamlining aspects of the game and removing no small amount of micromanagement\u201d in order to appease the console audience, they remain adamant that the game is not being \u201cdumbed down\u201d. Instead, the developer is aiming to \u201cget rid of tedium and uninteresting mechanics.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSoldiers still die permanently, fog of war and line of sight are hugely important in combat, and you absolutely can lose the game if you screw up too badly.\u201d<\/p>\n
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is planned for release on PC<\/a>, PS3<\/a>, Xbox 360<\/a>, and should out towards the end of 2012.<\/p>\nSource: Game Informer<\/a><\/h5>\n
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