Enjoy

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08 ... om-remake/

(skip to 5 mins in, vid starts then...kinda weird)

More RPS interviewing of the lead designer of the new X-com strategy game. It's good stuff.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/09 ... preview-3/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/09 ... -chatdown/

Also commented gameplay video



Oh I am totally gonna name my squad members after CK people. Then send rookie Satis in to suicide stun a nasty enemy. If he survives, he gets a promotion.

Damn. I presume everyone has noticed the preorder on steam and the various bonus tiers depending on how many people preorder.

Either rps has sold out, or this game is going to be amazing.

Either rps has sold out, or this game is going to be amazing.

So, I saw Satis preordered too now. Welcome to the club haha. At this rate we're very likely to hit the tier 3 reward and get ourselves a free copy of Civ V.

yea, that'd be cool, though I think Peltz is of a differing opinion on the likelihood of that. It's at 44% now. I have 8 more days of time off left that I need to take by the end of the year... I may drop a couple days during the release of this, so Shiny doesn't feel so ignored.

That's the first time I ever heard you say you had too much (relatively speaking) time off. It's a good thing you aren't working in commie Europe!

But sounds like a great plan. I'd do the same, if it weren't for the fact that a) I don't have my PC here and b) I've only been working this job for 2 months, so taking a week off to play a videogame on release seems unwise.

And Peltz, there's almost two weeks left and the preorder rates have been steadily rising. I don't see why we won't hit tier 3...unless you believe that Firaxis will rig it so that they won't have to flood the market with shitloads of Civ V copies haha.

Demo online now on Steam! A major release focusing on PC and releasing a demo? I think the sky just fell on my head!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/200510

It's oversaturated atm (at least from where I'm trying to download) so may take a while to get it to work...

downloading the demo now. I'm going at full speed, so whatever saturation there may have been appears to be gone now. I'll probably play it after work (after I go running).

Okay, so I played the demo. Let me warn you... very very limited.

1. You start off with a tactical mission. This is on rails. You must choose exactly what the computer tells you to. It's meant as a training mission, basically. but it doesn't give you any freedom at all.
2. You then go to base. Like #1, you're told to click on stuff and can't go off the scripted path. A good overview, but again. no freedom at all.
3. Another tactical mission... you get to choose one of two options. Once on the ground, it forces you to make a couple moves ( more instructional stuff ) and then you're free to do what you want. Finally! And it's fun. I'm looking forward to this.

A few things I noticed from the demo.

Your squads are 4 people large, but with training you can expand it to 6.
I don't know if you can have multiple squads at a single tactical mission. I sure hope so.
Looks like your soldiers are set up to be very personal. You level then, equip them, etc. There was also an option to show a roster of the people that have died. :p Grayed out in the demo of course.
Still lots of questions as to how everything else works.

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/ns2k ... alkthrough

Some good laughs in this one.

That looks pretty awesome. I didn't bother download the demo for obvious crappy laptop reasons, but this looks really good.

RPS actually posted about what the demo showed and didn't show about the game because some people were disappointed by the demo's contents.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/09 ... xcom-demo/