Phoenix Point, or "XCOM meets x-com"

[shadow_archmagi]

One thing that stuck me is how similar it looks to the new XCOMs, both the interface and graphics. If I didn't know better I'd say they're running on the same engine, but they can't have possibly licensed that, can they?

Yeah, part of me insists that there has to have been a firaxis leak of some kind for them to have the look THAT CLOSE. I'm surprised they're being so collaborative. I can't wait to see the Solomon Chamber.

I've seen people on Youtube playing the one sample mission that's been released and it has some interesting stuff in it--the enormous boss monster with about ten times as much health as anything else that forces you to choose your shots is particularly cool; in X-Com such a thing would basically be an exercise in frustration as you try to whittle its massive health bar down. I also like the return of Action Points, but combined with the intuitive X-Com UI feature where it shows you immediately how far you can move while still being able to take a shot at the end of it.

However, we're well over six months out from release, so we'll have to wait and see how the thing actually plays for ourselves.

I maaay have splurged and picked up the alpha build pre-order, so I'll post screenshots of that tomorrow. Apparently it'll have the demo level they've shown off before, as well as procedurally generated missions.