XCOM release date announced

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 3 June, 2011

PS3 version confirmed.

First-person shooter XCOM launches on 9th March 2012, 2K Games has announced.

It launches on 6th March in the US.

The game is no longer a PC and Xbox 360 exclusive. 2K Games today confirmed plans to launch a PlayStation 3 version.

"XCOM is a gripping tactical action experience set in mid-century America, where the player leads an elite field team of specialised government agents into battle - combining deep, visceral gunplay with powerful sci-fi abilities," reads the official blurb.

"Together, they face a vicious and otherworldly enemy, who conspires to shatter our world and rebuild it in their own image."

You play Special Agent William Carter and his team against the threat of human extinction. Guess XCOM is now a squad-based shooter, then.

You "strike surgically" against aliens, capture their technology and turn their weapons against them.

The latest XCOM footage declassified.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 12 months ago

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  • StonecoldMC #1 12 months ago

    "XCOM launches on 6th March 2011, 2K Games has announced."

    Whaaaaaaaaaaaa???

  • AaronTurner #2 12 months ago

    I must have missed it

  • JuJuCam #3 12 months ago

    Quiet launch...

  • YenRug #4 12 months ago

    The game needs to be renamed to EX-COM, it's got absolutely no connection to the old games, as far as I'm concerned.

  • Indy #5 12 months ago

    The latest trailer looks completely dreadful.

  • Aradiel #6 12 months ago

    It still sounds shit.

  • agparrot #7 12 months ago

    I would like it to be good, but it is really hard to believe that it will be.

    Still, plenty of time to wait and see.

    Why the heck they can't just get on and XBLA / PSN some turned based isometric AP-ery I don't know.

  • HurbleBurble #8 12 months ago

    That truly looks diabolic and will be a shame to have a greats series have it's name dragged through the mud with that piece of crud.

  • Duke100 #9 12 months ago

    If this is going to happen, which on current showings I don't think it should, then they should make it like Valkyria chronicles.

  • God_Octo #10 12 months ago

    Having never played any other X-com, and going just by what I've seen, it looks alright. I hope they play up the 'mysterious' angle, rather than the 'lots of FPS shooting' one, otherwise its gonna get swamped.

  • YenRug #11 12 months ago

    @Duke100

    I said the exact same thing, when they first revealed it was going to be an FPS.

  • Duke100 #12 12 months ago

    @YenRug

    Great minds think alike!

  • Bluetooth #13 12 months ago

    Geoscape RIP :(

  • marmaduke #14 12 months ago

    Fuck this. We need another generic FPS like we need more rocks on the moon.

    Anyone wanting some XCOM-style action from people who actually care about the game, try UFO: Extraterrestrials

    It's been modded quite a lot since release to make it even more XCOMish than it already was.

  • Gastrian #15 12 months ago

    Post deleted at 17:56:43 13-04-2012

  • Matthew_Hornet #16 12 months ago

    "Yo, the best part is when the alien dude, like, jumps right on top of you! And the music goes nuts! Some serious shit brah! This is gonna be, like, twice as good as Halo! Shit, it's gonna be better than Call of Duty! The multiplayer's gonna be the bomb! I'm gonna headshot everybody with the lazer, man!"

    ...fuck.

    My soul weeps.

  • Killface #17 12 months ago

    Wow, that trailer was eye opening, forgot how much X-com was like tron. And they seem to have diverted away from the goo creatures which looked cool in the previous trailers too. "Nope we're gonna go with a Tron of Duty: Group Fortress 2 motif, get out of my office and wipe that originality off your face". Whereas previously was a sense of enthusiasm and mystery to whether 2K could make a FPS X-Com, now is just terminal indifference.
    Thought this would be more investigating & narrative; akin to some sort of L.A Noire X-files with added Goo creatures. *Sad Face*
    It looks dated a year before release and the "enemies" or space cube men look less characterised than Keanu Reeves in [insert film here].
    I think all I am trying to say is...

    Why?

    Fan of old X-com: Damo (Not angry, just disappointed)

  • DawnrazorDCLXVI #18 12 months ago

    It actually looks excellent... For an FPS. And terrible... If you're trying to make XCOM.

  • sabbede #19 12 months ago

    If its just a shooter: BOOOOOOO! (I may play it, won't buy it)
    But maybe, just maybe there'll be research, production, random(ish) missions... I won't damn it until I know.

  • mukki #20 12 months ago

    Like the whole 50s thing... But ya will wait to get excited about this one

  • 43n1m4 #21 12 months ago

    Me. Sad.

  • GTFRoundsdown #22 12 months ago

    Well done executives! Don't remember it being a FPS. You would have jammed Xbox live if you released anything like the original. Turn based or even a modern take would have been nice! How about the original or improved original released on live? Now that would be listening!