game play will be 3rd person ish.. like masseffect type ? that would be awesome

Hmmm I think it would be really worth it to pre-order if you can also get the Civ 5 for free.

Still 1 month of pre-orders to go. Hopefully, can achieve target.

I still am not sure how much control do we have in the full game but based on the demo it is suffocatingly limited.

Edit: Hmm wait a minute, does the Civ 5 deal also include previous buyers of the game before they increased the prices?

So how do we get this Civ 5? GMG going to send it to us in the form of activation code?

the story line?

one day, alien invade earth. humanity goes %#!@.
x-com project is in charge to protect humanity.
you are x-com commander.
you save the earth.
declared hero.

x-com 2...read from the top pls.

X-COM narrative story classic wise only begins at the start and end. For the most part you craft your own story through the missions you perform including managing your squad, upgrading your squad, etc. etc.

On thing most fascinating about the X-COM series is that you can possibly capture live alien specimens instead of just mindlessly finding ways to kill them in order to study and understanding more about the invaders which in turn their own technologies and weapons against them.

The game plays more into titles like Jagged Alliance than Civilization series and to some extent Valkyria Chronicles.

I just thank God the previous 2K XCOM remake is dead for now. FPS... 

I hated it the moment I saw it was FPS. If it was the same setting in turn based 3rd person, then I would have liked it. The have to use another name other than the XCOM franchise if they want to succeed with that FPS alien shooter. Because automatically most of the fans in the XCOM genre will hate the game from the get go. Which is why it is now not really being actively produced. If they rename it to something else, they would then avoid the hate it is getting online from the fans which turn off other potential customers. Perhaps then it can have a chance to succeed on it's own. But definitely not on XCOM name.

It was similar story when Bethesda made Fallout 3 1st person but they managed to convince the old fans by incorporating the VATS system, gore, conversation options, karma etc instead of making it an actual pure shooter. So the fans actually saw VATS system in gameplay and how the combat was and they were convince it was alright.

Are you playing on consoles? Cos I don't see how a top down point and click turn-based strategy copies from a 3rd person game, controlled by maneuvering each character with a gamepad, ala action game. Maybe you're playing on a console and don't know that the PC version is different? I dunno, I can only guess.

I did love VC, but the battles were decidedly scripted, and some missions were ridiculously silly. Ever ran your fastest character to the checkpoint in 2 turns, ignoring all manner of strategic thinking, just to get S rank for a mission? Cos that's what some missions required. VC was not so much a strategy game as it was a 'puzzle' game. Find the right combination of moves to make, and viola, rank S. XCOM has, as far as I can tell, randomly occuring missions taking place in all manner of locations, with AI instead of scripts determining how events play out.

The new XCOM seemed to be a blend of Company of Heroes' cover system with some of the older XCOM features like permanent death, 2 layers of strategy and research tree. Along with some of the unnecessary complexity removed which is kinda sad.

I dont see whats wrong with it or any similarities with other turn based games. It is like saying Battlefield is the same as CoD, while the fact is, both game's mechanics are very very different.

Unfortunately, i have used the key to preload the game.

I might get a copy of Special Edition and sell the key away.

The copy im getting does also come with preorder DLC.

How about 35USD? But there might be delays as i need to buy the game from the shop downstairs. Not sure are they selling it tomorrow.

Alright, can you send the money to my Paypal?