I didn't quite finish the demo in an hour or so but it doesn't allow you to save. My only gripe about the game was really a demo limitation in that I couldn't save any progress.

I enjoyed the intro missions and they really teach you how to play the game and then kick you into the action. The demo comes with a few missions and some compelling story to give you a good taste of what the game has in store. But don't let that absolutely bad description fool you, the game is pretty intense. Basically its similar to something like Final Fantasy Tactics or the like where you take turns against the computer to overwhelm them. If you played the original and then this recent version shout out in the comments or another post, I am interested how that turned out for you. So I don't have much in my mind in terms of if the game follows the originals legacy or anything. I dusted off the recent XCOM demo I had in my queue recently and it was a surprising amount of fun.įull confession as I haven't played any of the original XCOM games. The XCOM genre is something special and distinct, and diverging too far from its fundamental design pillars results in something less than satisfactory.I have a lot of game demo's I need to ry. Ever since I signed over the X-COM rights to MicroProse back in 1997 I have been trying to build a new X-COM-style game, but I never quite succeeded, despite releasing several turn-based games over the last 15 years.

Phoenix Point was first announced at the PC Gamer Weekender event in March last year, where I argued that XCOM is now an established genre, thanks to the tremendous success of the Firaxis games.

What’s it all about, you may ask? You can look forward to my musings on games, the games industry, and also follow progress on my new XCOM-style game, Phoenix Point, which is underway at Snapshot Games in sunny Bulgaria. In his first column for PC Gamer Indie, creator of the original X-COM Julian Gollop argues his game has become a genre of its own.

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