2K Games just announced that they are bringing back the classic Xcom series, this time as a first person shooter. The game is in development at 2K Marin, the same studio that gave us Bioshock 2 earlier this year. The press release, which is more or less the only thing we have to go on right now, says that it will be a "re-imagining of the classic tale of humanity's struggle against an unknown enemy that puts players directly into the shoes of an FBI agent tasked with identifying and eliminating the growing threat."
It's also supposed to be "true to the roots of the franchise, players will be placed in charge of overcoming high-stake odds through risky strategic gambits coupled with heart-stopping combat experiences that pit human ingenuity - and frailty - against a foe beyond comprehension. By setting the game in a first-person perspective, players will be able to feel the tension and fear that comes with combating a faceless enemy that is violently probing and plotting its way into our world."
And now, a special edition of Petter's Rage, brought to you by the amount of coffee Petter has had this morning.
Seriously, 2K! What is this? If you're not going to do it properly, leave Xcom alone. It's not like we played, and loved, the original for the story! It was all about the awesome strategy, building and planning bases, keeping investors happy, doing research and developing new weaponry, capturing aliens, the thrill of blowing up gas stations and setting fire to shops in the Terror Sites, seeing your poor soldiers gain experience only to die at the hands of a Reaper (well, teeth of a Reaper, really). Bring back that instead, you're sitting on gold here! Take the original game, give it modern graphics and just release that. Don't fix what's not broken and don't make it a FPS! An FBI agent? What?! You're making a poor Xcom fanboy cry.
Thank you for reading. We've given Petter his pills and stuffed him in a corner.