2K Games has announced that their third person shooter reboot of XCOM is going ahead after all, and is keeping its 1962 period setting.
First revealed as long ago as 2010, the controversial reboot of XCOM is finally getting a release on August 23, on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The game upset fans because of how radically it diverged from the original turn-based strategy game, but actually we were quite impressed by what we saw back at E3 2011.
Either way, with last year’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown sticking very close to the original template there’s now much less reason to get upset about a different take on the same universe. Indeed, despite the name change to The Bureau: XCOM Declassified not an awful lot seems to have changed since we first saw the game.
It’s still being developed by BioShock 2 (but not 1 or Infinite) creators 2K Marin and is set at the height of the Cold War, telling of the XCOM organisation’s first encounter with the aliens. You’ll be playing as special agent William Carter, leading a squad of other agents into every battle.
Unfortunately there’s no new footage of the game though, just another of these wretched live action trailers that seems to have become inexplicably popular with publishers all of a sudden. The screenshots though suggest that game still look largely the same as it always had.
