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Point taken Pete. Sorry for the rant. I did email 2K Marin about it, I know they will look at it as just another disgruntled gamer. So be it. I am not trying to blast 2K at all (well maybe just a little). I was just a little miffed by the fact that...well you know my opinion from my previous two posts. I have said all that I needed to be said. And like I said before, I am not saying that this game is going to be terrible. It might quite good in fact. I hope it is good and I am proven wrong. It will not be the first time I have eaten crow and it certainly won't be the last. I will try and keep an open mind about the game. Again, sorry for the rant. Didn't mean to flame. I hope we hear good news in the future about the game. I will gladly cook up the crow myself.

Well after looking at the interview I am only slightly more impressed. What he said sounds interesting but we are all (I think) looking at this game as a revamp of the old one. This is just not the case with this game. They have taken a perfectly perfect TBS game and turned it into yer another FPS (I will let you guess at what the S stands for). I am not by any means saying outright that this is going to be a terrible game. It still looks pretty interesting. If you like FPS. The whole core of the argument (I think) is that they should not be calling this game XCOM. Yes it has aliens, yes it supposedly has some sort of combat unit (didn't know the FBI trained their agents like that back in the 50's), yes it has research (if you want to call it that), BUT, is it X-COM? Absolutely 100% NO!!!! X-COM is and will always be TBS, research, base building, interceptions, recovery and terror attacks and last but certainly not least, all about the aliens. You know the ones I mean. Sectoids, floaters, reapers, snakemen, crysallids, etc. Not some damn black goo that makes me think of the alien virus in X-Files. Like I have said before you can call the game whatever u like and say that you were heavily inspired by the X-COM franchise and that would be fine. At least then we would know that you are at least telling the truth. But to say that this is another X-COM is purely laughable. I am sorry for the rant but I just cannot handle someone muddying the good name of X-COM.

Well all I can say is this...I am not overly impressed. The game itself looks interesting for a FPS, but to give it the name XCOM is just a slap in the face. You might as well just call it Alien Hunter or something. I will admit that I am like just about every other diehard X-COM fan out there....I essentially want a revamp on the old with all updated graphics and such. But, to be honest, we all know that will never happen. EVER. Still I will reserve my total judgement on the game until I actually see the released product. Who knows, I might actually enjoy it. But it is a pure slap in the face to not have any cannon in the game and call it XCOM. It will not be X-COM and it never will be. Seems to me that 2K is doing what a lot of companies are doing these days. Taking the name of a previously successful title, pull one or two things from it so it looks familiar and then changing the entire aspect of the game from content to playablilty and still calling it their own. Give me a break. I just get fired up to see one of the best games of all time thrown in the mud because the owner of the IP doesn't get it or just doesn't care.

What happened to the Summer 2006 release? It even still states the summer 2006 release date on the website. I hope they get all the bugs out soon. I really want to play this game!

Hate to tell you this guys but the links to the FIleplanet Download are no longer good. The only way that I know of to download XCOM: CE is through Bit Torrent download. Just thought you should know. I only checked FilePlanet, not any other dowload portal besides all the Torrent sites.