Locate, research, and retreat. These are the three ideas presented in the XCOM E3 2010 debut trailer, a bit of footage that also dedicates a decent chunk of time to establishing the game's suburban 1950's setting.    

Locate, research, and retreat. These are the three ideas presented in the XCOM E3 2010 debut trailer, a bit of footage that also dedicates a decent chunk of time to establishing the game's suburban 1950's setting.    

XCOM! I like they are taking the Bioshock photo mechanic, even though I disliked the BS2 camera thing.

!MOCX

Hmm....it's starting to look interesting. 

Looks like it could potentially be a very cool game...but it doesn't look much like X-Com.

My only concern is that fighting blobs of ink could become really annoying as they are bouncing all over the place.

I wish they could stop taking names from old games and do new games that has absolutely nothing to do with the old game.

another 2011 game this fall is going to be dry afterall

The Sims:Bioshock Edition

Oh man this game looks terrible. Beyond the whole FPS bastardization thing who the fuck wants to advertise shooting choppy black gobs of ink in their first trailer? This game is dead from day one.

Why put the X-Com name on this? It is just going to serve to piss off the people who actually played it 20 years ago. This doesn't resemble anything like the original and I didn't expect it to. So why? Is a 20 year old niche game really going to get people nostalgic enough to buy it in droves?

I have a feeling they'll attach more story elements from older X-COM games than what people are expecting.  I can't imagine they'd put that name, of all names, on there if that wasn't the case.

Looks interesting.

I don't get peoples negative reaction to this. I personally think this looks interesting. I think the black inc thing can turn out to be a neat little idea. 

" I have a feeling they'll attach more story elements from older X-COM games than what people are expecting.  I can't imagine they'd put that name, of all names, on there if that wasn't the case. "

I've never played the older X-Com games nor do I have any knowledge of what they played like/what they were about, but taken as it's own game, this looks very interesting. And if it's as good as Bioshock 2, I'm in.

" @napalmtrees said:

" I have a feeling they'll attach more story elements from older X-COM games than what people are expecting.  I can't imagine they'd put that name, of all names, on there if that wasn't the case. "

XCom had no story, no protagonist, and no names. It was a tactical game that was set up as aliens are invading the earth you have to stop them. "

I have no real problem with the game itself, it looks like Bioshock, which is a game I enjoyed. I have a problem with digging up an old license and then making a game that doesn't resemble it at all. Everything that had to do with the "story" of the original XCom was generic. Nobody played XCom for the originality of the setting or story. The organization was some generic Earth Defense Force that started with a bare bones base and a couple of random dudes.

What made XCom was that you made your own story in the way you attacked the aliens. There was no linear plot that you had to follow. You got to recruit and research and attack the aliens in how you see fit.

" @Wick said:

" @napalmtrees said:

" I have a feeling they'll attach more story elements from older X-COM games than what people are expecting.  I can't imagine they'd put that name, of all names, on there if that wasn't the case. "

XCom had no story, no protagonist, and no names. It was a tactical game that was set up as aliens are invading the earth you have to stop them. "

No organizations? No enemies?  Just because it didn't have any labeled characters doesn't mean it doesn't have stuff it can use. "

Not to be picky about it, but gobs of black goo don't seem like the kind of thing that get hurt by shotguns. Whatever, it's their game.

Also, wasn't there an action-based X-COM game before?
 
edit: yep 

Looks like The Sims  mixed with bioshock

Wait, what? Wasn't X-Com a futuristic, deep space, isometric turn-based strategy about 15 years ago?

I'm not familiar with the X-Com series but this looks awesome!

" Not to be picky about it, but gobs of black goo don't seem like the kind of thing that get hurt by shotguns. Whatever, it's their game. "

Wow this game looks god awful. Black jelly? Come on...

Bioshock meets the goo from PoP 2008?

So you fight the BP oil spill?

Getting Bioshock vibes.  That's a good thing in this case.  Cool setting.

I sure hope there's gonna be a bigger variety of enemies than in this video.

That’s no moon.

I think this is obviously a cautionary tale about what's going to happen to us if we don't plug the BP Oil Spill.

" Wait, what? Wasn't X-Com a futuristic, deep space, isometric turn-based strategy about 15 years ago? "

Hey, another 50s/futuristic themed non-traditional shooter.

It looks like a cool game, but I feel they should have named it something other than XCOM as it seems to have nothing in common with those games. Well... apart from the aliens.

Looks interesting enough. 

@wick & others w/ this point
Duder you are so right now that you mention it.  almost seem like how movies adapt books.  base a little bit from source material, slap on title.
ryan made a point about Bionic Commando doesn't resonate w/ this generation.  i wonder if it's too late from them to change the title.
 
i'm really looking forward to the game.  50s setting.  it looks really interesting.  but maybe they should've gone w/ another title.

Looks interesting until I realized the villains were black oil. It absolutely amazes me how someone in production wasn't like this is ridiculous, lets model actual aliens. Once again, another stupid design decision that ruins what could have been a great game. 
 
X-COM: Oil Spill Cleanup    
coming soon to a console near you :(

It's the year of evil Black substances in many forms.

Wow this looks awesome. I must play it.

No base building, no mention of squads, no mention of any sort of management game. I'm sorry but this is a reskinned bioshock game NOT xcom. Way to do what everyone else has with X-com games 2k... way to go. There's no reason to use the xcom name for this game at all!  
 
It was so great to see a talented studio pick up the Xcom license, i was really hoping to finally see a new entry in the series that was worthy of the original game. 

Not really X-Com, but it does look like a decent game.