Hobbes Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Looks like Gamespy was convinced of what they saw at E3... Link to article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Good news, not that i saw a lot of competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowBlade Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 The relevant bit: XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Best Strategy Game Developer: Firaxis GamesPublisher: 2K Games The competition in this category was stiff, with both the shiny SimCity and the proven Company of Heroes 2 making strong cases... but the return of turn-based XCOM is an event almost 20 years in the making, and the new aliens and advanced technologies we saw here at E3 gave us even more reasons to look forward to repelling this October's invasion. It's not just nostalgia powering this pick, either -- Friaxis' XCOM revival has even generated a ton of buzz among gamers who've never fired a Blaster Bomb Launcher at a Muton (including our console-gamer friends). We're hugely excited about turn-based strategy and tactics coming back into the spotlight, and that a classic PC franchise finally is getting its due with a fantastic-looking update. It's great to see the expectation for XCOM:EU has beaten even that of Company of Heroes 2, a decent but pretty much the only competitor out there. SimCity's strategy as well, but it'd be extremely hard to even compare the two. They're so different in almost every regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 with both the shiny SimCity and the proven Company of Heroes 2 CoH2 won't be proven until it's reviewed. Jog on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 I agree with FA. There is little known about CoH2 and I think it will be amazing too. Now if it was compared with Xenonauts it would be different (or UFO:ET2). Also I am wondering - SimCity as strategy? Ok I now that there is strategy involved there but then you can tell that every sim game is strategy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowBlade Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 SimCity is definitely a strategy game. Sure, it has nothing to do with war, but still, strategy games needn't be wargames. SimCity's simulationist nature doesn't interfere with its generic definition. And yeah, no game can be considered "proven" before it comes out. There's a little bias there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Agree. On both accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 SimCity is definitely a strategy game. Concur. I think 'strategy' is often a synonym for 'war' when it comes to games, but it isn't always so, you just end up thinking that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Concur. HE HE HE, this word always brings "Catch me if you can" movie into my imaginary retina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owen magnetic Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 I'm a tad skeptical about what I've seen from Sim City - gotta remember that Will Wright has nothing to do with the series anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted June 15, 2012 Author Share Posted June 15, 2012 And Gameinformer doesn't spare compliments either: "XCOM: Enemy Unknown Exceeds Our Lofty Expectations" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Game Informer are as bent as a thirty-seven pound note, but they might be right by accident on this one. Space Voyager 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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