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[Blond]

XCOM: Shadow Legends

 

[Patrick S.]

I love XCOM, but this looks like shit.

 

[The Cockatrice]

 

[Bartski]

 

[Shai-Tan]

I love XCOM, but this looks like shit.

And I'm guessing IAP treadmill

 

[Bridges]

It's like XCOM without any of the things that make XCOM good

 

[SirKicksalot]

Lmao

Both main games including expansions are on mobile and they're great. Enemy Within is playable on most phones.

 

[Andodalf]

It looks so fake but it’s apparently real?

 

[Blayze]

It looks so fake but it’s apparently real?

Unfortunately, it's real; 2K admitted it to Eurogamer.

I thought the "XCOM Command Force" stuff from a year ago was a mockup or IP theft at first, just with the person responsible doing a little bit of homework online to find a company associated with 2K so they didn't have to make up their own company name for a fake picture. Other people posted messages saying they'd seen the adverts as well, but they could've been sock puppets.

When the recent footage came out--I don't know if the leaker broke an NDA doing that--a lot of us thought it was IP theft, but the active Twitter account says "optional in-app purchases" small print on the account's header image, and I think at that point someone at 2K realised the cat was out of the bag. There was a chance it was still fake until they admitted it, but that chance dropped the more circumstantial evidence showed up.

 

[Sybrix]

Wow lol... Kotaku didnt like it:

2K Launch XCOM Game That Looks Nothing Like XCOM

Commander, this is not the new XCOM game you were hoping for.

kotaku.com

 

[Rikkori]

Hard to overstate just how disgusting this is. I know 2K is a spawn from hell's bowels, but even they should know that doing things like this ends up devaluing their IP & brand. After the great job that Firaxis did with reviving the IP and making not only good games, but legitimately XCOM 2 can fight for the title of G.O.A.T., it's very disappointing to see the direction things are going. Yeah, I know it's not Firaxis & they're doing Marvel XCOM but in the end because they don't have autonomy over their studio nor control of the IP, XCOM can keep being dragged through shit like this.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

I love XCOM, but this looks like shit.

Are you Luke Plunkett?

 

[Sentenza]

Looks like trash.

 

[SJRB]

It looks so fake but it’s apparently real?

GATCHA!

 

[Duchess]

This looks like it started life as a different game altogether and was just repurposed later on.

 

[Spearheadz]

Yet we still hear nothing about the XCom Marvel game.

 

[ClanOfNone]

Yet we still hear nothing about the XCom Marvel game.

That sounds intriguing, but I'd rather have a Freedom Force reboot.

 

[jaysius]

OMG that "Incoming" voice sample were recorded in a bathroom, so were the other lines. This is amazing.

I can't wait for the shitty mobile Elder Scrolls game...oh wait, lol.