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Digital Gaming => Computer Gaming => Topic started by: Rayfer on September 22, 2014, 03:07:12 PM

Title: Falling Skies
Post by: Rayfer on September 22, 2014, 03:07:12 PM
Saw this on the RPS site...alien invasion game using the Xcom: Enemy Unknown engine. Trailer shows only tactical combat and the various enemy types.  http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/09/22/x-comparisons-inevitable-falling-skies/#more-235057
Title: Re: Falling Skies
Post by: Jarhead0331 on September 22, 2014, 03:09:28 PM
Games based on movies are usually pretty bad.  Games based on TV series are generally terrible. Maybe it will be good, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
Title: Re: Falling Skies
Post by: tgb on September 22, 2014, 07:06:38 PM
When I first started watching Falling Skies my first thought was that it would make an incredible XCOM mod.  But 1 week's notice on a licensed property from an unknown developer means Jarhead is probably right.  I see great suckitude here.
Title: Re: Falling Skies
Post by: undercovergeek on September 22, 2014, 07:18:09 PM
Quote from: Rayfer on September 22, 2014, 03:07:12 PM
Saw this on the RPS site...alien invasion game using the Xcom: Enemy Unknown engine. Trailer shows only tactical combat and the various enemy types.  http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/09/22/x-comparisons-inevitable-falling-skies/#more-235057

im only taking the piss, but............

an alien invasion game using the XCOM engine

isnt that XCOM then?
Title: Re: Falling Skies
Post by: Nefaro on September 22, 2014, 11:03:46 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 22, 2014, 07:18:09 PM


im only taking the piss, but............

an alien invasion game using the XCOM engine

isnt that XCOM then?

Yeah.  It may not suck since it's pretty much a mod of a good existing game.   Unless they screw something up in the process...