I’m sorry to do that to you, however XCOM 2 got here out 9 years in the past. The world was younger, my passport stated “European Union” on it, and I had a full head of hair (I nonetheless do, however I additionally did then).
Not solely did XCOM 2 come out practically a decade in the past, nevertheless it was actually good. So good {that a} sequel looks as if a complete no-brainer. But right here we’re, collectively misplaced as we anticipate an XCOM 3 that will by no means come. No, Chimera Squad would not depend.
But you and I aren’t the one ones ready. The precise creator of authentic XCOM, Julian Gollop, is simply as eager to play it and simply as perplexed by its absence. In a chat with PCG about his new recreation, Chip ‘n Clawz vs The Brainioids, Gollop stated that, although there’s been “A resurgence of RTS video games” within the current previous, he would not know what’s occurred to XCOM 3.
“I’m positive there’s an viewers for it,” Gollop stated, “however, you recognize, it’s a must to settle for the truth that technique video games are nonetheless a distinct segment.” It’s a “fairly massive area of interest,” however nonetheless a distinct segment, and even a recreation like XCOM 3 would possibly fall flat on its face.
“It is usually a bit troublesome, you recognize, as within the case of Civ 7, maybe.” Gollop’s referring to the current blended response to Civ 7’s myriad modifications to the collection’ age-old method—even Firaxis places a foot fallacious in followers’ eyes generally.
Rather than heavy hitters like Firaxis, Gollop reckons that quite a lot of innovation and attention-grabbing work in technique nowadays comes from smaller indie video games, pointing at video games like Factorio, Tactical Breach Wizards, The Last Spell, and as video games which have efficiently blended up the style in recent times, even when they lack the budgets and advertising oomph of the once-dominant technique video games of the ’90s.
But there’s nonetheless no XCOM 3, simply video games that fold a few of these acquainted XCOM mechanics into different genres totally. “Jagged Alliance 3 has very far more of an XCOM model to its gameplay,” says Gollop, “Or the [Warhammer 40k] Rogue Trader recreation. So there’s some fairly good examples nonetheless round that are good. But, sadly, no XCOM 3 but.”
