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Jullian Gollop made the original X-Com and he appears to be going back to his roots.

This preview sounds really interesting.

Basically turn based tactical combat (completely procedurally generated content, including enemies who will learn and react to your tactics) with an in depth strategic layer featuring a slowly growing enemy force and various distinct human factions with their own agenda's, goals and even tech trees....

The X-Com remakes were good games although they were pretty shallow, especially the strategic layer. This sounds like it will be an X-COM remake done right.

The random enemies sounds like a cool bit.

Im very pysched about it. Ive played a couple of his post X-Com games and theyre all interesting, but none quite scratch the same itch. Of course, he's rarely had 100% control of post X-COM projects.

The fact that he has control this time, AND its meant to go back to the roots of the geoscape/tactical gameplay has me super excited. The fact that he refused to phone it in as an "X-COM 2" with regular aliens is a good sign too

This is by far the game that I am most looking forward to.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
Jullian Gollop made the original X-Com and he appears to be going back to his roots.

This preview sounds really interesting.

Basically turn based tactical combat (completely procedurally generated content, including enemies who will learn and react to your tactics) with an in depth strategic layer featuring a slowly growing enemy force and various distinct human factions with their own agenda's, goals and even tech trees....

The X-Com remakes were good games although they were pretty shallow, especially the strategic layer. This sounds like it will be an X-COM remake done right.

There's a lot of ways to describe the new X-COM but shallow isn't one that I wold describe it as.

 Cheesecat wrote:

There's a lot of ways to describe the new X-COM but shallow isn't one that I wold describe it as.

Yet I do, the strategic layer is basically an afterthought. This game however seems to take it very seriously.

I don't like the monster designs. I'd prefer a lot more body horror or a lot less.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:

There's a lot of ways to describe the new X-COM but shallow isn't one that I wold describe it as.

Yet I do, the strategic layer is basically an afterthought. This game however seems to take it very seriously.

Okay, I can see where one could argue that on the strategic level ("afterthought" I think is somewhat extreme but it certainly is not as fleshed out as other aspects) but definitely not on the tactics side of things.

I don't know that you could call the strategic layer an afterthought. It's definitely got a 'tech up' feel to it, but teching up is a big part of XCOM.

The air game, on the other hand...

So this looks really cool! Bit of XCOM, bit of Dead Space, bit of Lovecraft. I'm loving the monster designs and the implications of having to deal with different human factions! Enemies learning and adapting to tactics sounds neat, too.

It's alive!

We sort of. There still isn't much of the way of actual information but at least its still in development, I was getting a bit worried by the complete lack of any information for almost a year.