THE BUREAU: XCOM Declassified First Gameplay! Tactics, Permadeath, & new scr

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Rev3Games - THE BUREAU: XCOM Declassified First Gameplay! Tactics, Permadeath, and Third-Person Shooting

Debut Gameplay Reveal - "The Signal" Mission

http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/13/the-...amwork-aliens/

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More interested than I was before.

I god i only just saw the gameplay .... Its gone Gears of Bore style...... 100% not getting. it looks pretty mediocre.MBirdy88

I saw some gameplay at IGN today. It reminded me of a boring version of GEOW combined with a boring version of Brothers in Arms.

I'm probably to quick to judge this game but  I can say the same thing for all the people that called how the game originally looked 'another shooter'. It had some interesting things going for it.

The abstract aliens had an interesting design and was something we don't often see in video games. Nope scratch that, let's go back to the old and tired alien design.

The investigating was something that looked interesting. The game had this whole mysterious vibe to it. Again, scratched and instead replaced with generic sit-behind-a-wall-and-shoot gameplay.

looks meh to me 

1. It looks like Mass Effect DLC.
2. Oh boy, tanks... I just hope they dont have a taunting ability...

"Destroy All Humans!" alien is back :D

"Destroy All Humans!" alien is back :D

locopatho

But that game was mocking how cliche aliens look. This game isn't, they just have cliche looking aliens.

[QUOTE="locopatho"]R4gn4r0k

But that game was mocking how cliche aliens look. This game isn't, they just have cliche looking aliens.

I know yeah. It;s pretty bad. Also, cover based shooter? Naw!locopatho

To be fair that turn based Xcom that came out this year had them too. So it could be an alien design that's inherent to this franchise. But when I saw them I was thinking Destroy All Humans! too :P

Those abstract aliens they showed in the 2010 trailer of Xcom (back when it was an FPS) looked way more interesting and threatening.

Love the idea, but it all looks kinda janky and half-assed. 

More interested than I was before.

timbers_WSU

[QUOTE="locopatho"]I know yeah. It;s pretty bad. Also, cover based shooter? Naw!R4gn4r0k

To be fair that turn based Xcom that came out this year had them too. So it could be an alien design that's inherent to this franchise. But when I saw them I was thinking Destroy All Humans! too :P

Those abstract aliens they showed in the 2010 trailer of Xcom (back when it was an FPS) looked way more interesting and threatening.

Love the idea, but it all looks kinda janky and half-assed. 

Slow_Show

That new interface is so visually obstructive and ugly.

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Love the idea, but it all looks kinda janky and half-assed. 

jg4xchamp

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Love the idea, but it all looks kinda janky and half-assed. 

mems_1224

[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="jg4xchamp"]Salt_The_Fries

Day 1

I was never excited about the proposed XCOM FPS and was iffy about buying it just to support the XCOM franchise. This on the other hand looks great!!!! I see some of you making comparisons to other games. Being a cow I've never played GeoW and was so disgusted by ME2 that I never bought ME3. I think the gameplay looked exciting and am eager to experience squad based combat in a closer perspective.

XCOM has always been about consequences and hard choices. I'm excited about perma-death and hope they include an Ironman mode. I'll do whatever I can with my wallet to ensure there will be a next gen sequel to XCOM: EU.

[QUOTE="Salt_The_Fries"][QUOTE="mems_1224"] the funny part is that right before the dude said the game had smart AI companions the gameplay showed carter giving them an order to move to cover and one of the ai characters jumped over the cover into the line of fire for a few seconds and then jumped back over into the right spot :lol:mems_1224

Hopefully these AI issues will be ironed out by the time of release.

The way I figure it with pre-generated maps the AI should know the best route to take for each map.

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[QUOTE="locopatho"]I know yeah. It;s pretty bad. Also, cover based shooter? Naw!mems_1224

To be fair that turn based Xcom that came out this year had them too. So it could be an alien design that's inherent to this franchise. But when I saw them I was thinking Destroy All Humans! too :P

Those abstract aliens they showed in the 2010 trailer of Xcom (back when it was an FPS) looked way more interesting and threatening.

I'm kind of lost on why some of you consider that a bad thing.

The "Greys" have been embedded into the North American subconscious for decades. It would only make sense that they were real in the world of XCOM.

Interestingly enough the perception of aliens are different in other parts of the world. For instance in Europe they are usually reported as being reptilian.

How is permadeath implemented in here, exactly?Salt_The_Fries

I'm kind of lost on why some of you consider that a bad thing.

The "Greys" have been embedded into the North American subconscious for decades. It would only make sense that they were real in the world of XCOM.

Interestingly enough the perception of aliens are different in other parts of the world. For instance in Europe they are usually reported as being reptilian.

Boddicker

I never said it was a bad thing. I said they look cliche (which they do) and that the abstract aliens looked more interesting and threatening (which they did).

That is interesting indeed. What I find interesting about most alien designs in drawings, movies, etc... is how human-like they are. They all have two legs, two feet, two arms, two hands, ..., a head, though the head and eyes are usually bigger. If you take that away you basically got a human.

While if we take the theory of evolution in mind there is no way an alien race could be so human like. No way did the exact same circumstances happen on another planet for aliens to evolve in something so close to humans. Well that's my theory anyway. There are many other (perhaps more) interesting theories. :)