We were recently made aware of the livejournal of Nival programmer Bandures that can be found here. It is linked to a screenshot from Silent Storm looking suspiciously like X-COM. It is apparently something Bandures did at home a year or two ago, and I think it's safe to say that most X-COM fans would die for this. Keep in mind that this is only a modification of the Silent Storm engine, and not an actual working game. With a little luck we can get some more details from Bandures soon.



We think it's time that the X-COM community mobilized to get a new X-COM game made (Atari owns the rights). Therefore we wish to start a campaign with the working title "X-COM: Resurrection". If you're interested in helping out, stay tuned for more news on this in the months to come. We are not ready to mobilize yet, but seeing this picture was just the motivation we needed. In the meantime suggestions and comments are more than welcome!

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!

Ohhhh baby... Geoscapes always makes me drool

I was gonna wet myself but I already had, so I said forget it, I'm wet enough.

Oh, baby. Sign me up!

Eewww!

Indeed! I almost had a heart attack when I saw that picture! Guess the topic title is a bit overboard though...

To think we should be playing something like that in Genesis right now....

I really really really want an FPS, what XCOM: Alliance was supposed to be. For TBS' we already have ALTAR's games, now its the HL/Quake/UT2Kx fans turn!

yeah I already said that, I know.

hmmm, i don't think Alliance was going to be 100% FPS, weren't we supposed to be able to give orders to our team-mates? I can't remember... my memory is not what it once was...

Yeah, IIRC it was supposed to be a mix between FPS and Strategy, something like Ghost Recon I'd assume (in the tactical-FPS side, I mean), you were supposed to then take corpses and technology and research it the way you did in the rest of X-Com games. I'd have loved to play that too.
Aftermath is barely a TBS , even though I do like what they did to the game, I think it could have been a bit better, but I think Aftershock will satisfy me the way Aftermath couldn't, not that it's not a good game in it's own right, but I found it lacking in some aspects...

I'd LOVE to see Xcom using the S2/S3 engine! I lost more waking hours playing Xcom than any other single game. I enjoy S2/S3 very much (though the PK's do bug me some, being a grognard.)
Lets hope that this possibility of putting out an Xcom successor (or equivalent) comes to fruition. I'd buy it!

You and most everybody else, man. The damn things have stirred up more controversy about the game than any other single subject, and it just doesn't end. New players are coming in, two, three years since release, and going, "What's up with these crazy Panzerkleins? Did the Germans really have those?" And we have to go, "No, of course not, but Thor's Hammer DID."

Wasn't everybody's hope that S2 would basically be X-Com with kickass graphics?

Yeah... to an extent. I think I was expecting an easier game to mod. I didn't think it would be like X-Com to start with, but I really expected a full X-Com mod very quickly.

Well hopefully Hammer & Sickle or Nightwatch (both using the Sentinels Engine if I recall correctly) will come with some nice modding tools.

I want X-COM resurrection, and I agree that s2 engin is good for that

Ufo enemy unknown maked me love turn based strategy games like JA2 S2/S3 but now I more preffer somthing like Aftershock method of playing this pause/play method
but still I like turn based games














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