'X-COM 2' News: 2K Confirms Sequel is Coming in November
Even video games get sequels, reboots and remakes these days, but "XCOM" is no ordinary video game. It is among the first science fiction video game franchises established. It also has a huge cult following since the first game came out way back in 1994. It is said to have influenced many video games, and has its own share of "clones," "spiritual successors," and "unofficial remakes."
So the recent announcement that there will an "XCOM 2" is big news for the gaming world. Through an IGN First report, game publisher 2K revealed that they are working on a "full sequel" to "XCOM: Enemy Within," the 2012 game developed by Firaxis and what is considered to be "the continuation of the now 20-year-old legendary turn-based tactical squad combat series." The game is arriving in November 2015.
The game will be available exclusively for PC. 2K also shared a debut trailer which showed the new game's setting. Players will be playing within a world where aliens have domination over the Earth and the XCOM has been driven underground to fight against the alien-established Advent government. Players are part of this "guerilla force" who will "face more powerful enemies in unpredictable combat scenarios as they fight to turn the tables on a technologically superior enemy."
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Among the new features that the game will have include "new soldier classes, new aliens, stealth-infused tactics, procedurally generated maps," among others. The report did not provide any more details beyond this, but it mentions that more information will be made available in the coming weeks through IGN.
"XCOM" was re-imagined in 2012 with the release of "XCOM: Enemy Unknown," a game that featured "real-time strategic view, turn-based combat and destructible tactical environments more in vein of the original 'X-COM' game." It won several "Game of the Year" awards after its release and one reviewer praised it, calling it "a phoenix rising from the ashes of the 'X-COM' disaster."
