Firaxis (Civilization, Alpha Centauri) is remaking the original X-Com: UFO Defense (known as UFO: Enemy Unknown outside the US). It's going to retain the combo of turn-based strategic combat and management meta-game. It'll feature classes, stat development and persistence for soldiers, agency management, base-building (with 3D exploration of bases possible), and a host of other stuff.

I'm watching this one very, very closely. X-Com is easily a top-3 game for me, alongside Half Life and Diablo II. The sequels got a little less great each time--Terror From the Deep was quite good, but Apocalypse lost some of the charm. After Apocalypse nothing from the X-Com universe was worth bothering with.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/xcom-enemy-unknown/

THIS IS AWESOME.

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I'm watching this one too, not sure if I'll buy it just yet...I'll have to wait and see some of the dev notes and more gameplay before I make a decision. Nice to see them knocking the dust off of the Xcom franchise though.

I can't believe you mentioned Firaxis and didn't say anything about my favourite title from them, Sid Meier's Pirates!. I suppose Microprose did release it first a looooong time ago, but I'll always remember the gold version circa 2005.

IMBRIGLICATING!

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I own this, but it keeps crashing on the tutorial.

Damned Radeon compatibility issues.

MinisterofDOOM wrote:Damned Radeon compatibility issues.

Don't you worry, the AMD driver guy is hard at work trying to fix these issues.

RCA wrote:

MinisterofDOOM wrote:Damned Radeon compatibility issues.

Don't you worry, the AMD driver guy is hard at work trying to fix these issues.

My experience tells me that the "AMD Driver Guy" is a dead rat in a bowl of formaldehyde next to an unplugged PS/2 keyboard with a missing "G" key.