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Did this slip under the radar or was I just not paying attention*

*drunk

There's a been a few articles on RPS about it (latest article is a hands on), but with it being a different sort of game with the XCOM name and the fact that it went under a reinvention I think people quickly lost interest.

Yeah, basically the original version of this game got slated for being an FPS game called Xcom due to it being announced well before Firaxis' turn based game.

A shame because the original idea with a heavy focus on investigation and some quite interesting enemies looked pretty cool. However, the studio/publishers didn't like it and they turned it into a third person squad game. Which also looked rubbish AND was using a tired boring idea.

They went quiet for a bit, then have come back *again* with another third person manshoot, but with lots more chest high walls and very much aping Mass Effect, just with a big dollop of Firaxis' art assets for the aliens and guns, and taking the cover system. Sadly it's neither turned based nor has a proper pause for issuing actions.

It again, looks a bit boring outside of the art style. It also looks very actiony and without the substance of the turn based game's combat/squad member death.