XCOM Shooter Might Not Be XCOM Anymore
The XCOM shooter may no longer be the XCOM shooter...
Once upon a time, 2K had two XCOM games in the pipeline. One was XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a strategy game developed by Firaxis in the style of the original games. The other was a XCOM first person shooter in development at 2K Marin. After the initial announcement of the shooter, 2K was loathe to reveal much else. It didn’t look good.
In October last year, 2K revealed that the XCOM first person shooter may be changing into a third person shooter, according to a 2K marketing survey. According to the survey, 2K was also considering turning the title into a cheaper, downloadable title for the Xbox 360 and the PS3.
Now, according to a Superannuation post, it appears that Take-Two (2K’s parent company) has registered a bevy of domains: “Last week, Take-Two registered the domains thebureau-game.com, thebureau-game.net, whathappenedin62.com, and whathappenedin62.net,” read the post. “These domains seem to hint at a rebranding of 2K's beleaguered XCOM shooter, which places players in the shoes of an FBI agent in 1962. Given the success of Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown, I wouldn't be surprised if 2K thought having two very different games in different genres could dilute the franchise's brand.”
And let’s not forget that not too long ago, there’d been another first person reboot of a strategy series called Syndicate. It ended up doing not too hot, critically or in sales. 2K’s probably weighed most of the pros and cons of developing such a title and come to the conclusion that, considering the difficulties the game’s having in development, it might be a better move to scrap the whole thing and redub it as a fresh IP.

Because surely someone can create a game that is just as successful as Call of Duty...
After all, the gaming industry only burned through at least several FPS titles, such as Medal of Honor, and many other countless unmemorable games.
The premise for a more-than-likely shitty game to be released or cancelled sometime in the relatively near future..... I guess.
Duke Nukem Forever, Aliens: Colonial Marines and that horrendous Super Mario Bros. movie were examples of how people were hyped up to get sh$#* handed to them.
I totally agree. X-Com: Enemy Unknown was a good game that introduced a lot of nice modern features, but it was still far behind UFO Defense in a lot of very key ways. I could have played UFO Defense a thousand times, and I did! I can't say the same about the new one. Although I did thoroughly enjoy it, after the first run I had seen pretty much all that needed to be seen. Hopefully the next one will introduce some randomization and procedural generation, which is what the game really needed. At least it was better than this FPS BS.
Apparently so, because no one seems to be able to do it right. I would be all over a new syndicate that had just improved cameras and graphics. Syndicate a la deus ex, no so much.
2K has been pumping out good games for a while now. They seem to have a little more love than the pencil pushers at EA manage to output. One of the last good game companies in my opinion.
honestly, having an xcom shooter wouldn't be a bad idea.
hear me out
what they did wrong was not tell us about the strategy version, and made us think "yea, you know xcom right, you love it, and its one of the more highly regarded strategy games... well you will love this ITS NOW AN FPS"
if they came out and told you up front look we have a strategy game for you, and we also have an fps in the same universe, would it have been a bad thing? because everything i saw of the xcom fps, while it wasnt stratagy, looked a hell of a lot more fun than most of what i see in shooters today.
hell if they took a you can not win approach to certain objectives, and no matter what, the character you were playing as would die, and not game over you, i think it could have been a pretty fun game.