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XCOM

August 25, 2023

Not to be confused with X.com or EXCOMM.
This article is about the video game series. For the board game of the same name, see XCOM (board game). For the NASA X-ray communications experiment, see NICER § XCOM. For the file transfer computer program, see XCOM Data Transport.

XCOM (originally called X-COM) is a science fiction video game franchise featuring an elite international organization tasked with countering alien invasions of Earth. The series began with the strategy video game X-COM: UFO Defense created by Julian Gollop's Mythos Games and MicroProse in 1994. The original lineup by MicroProse included six published and at least two canceled games, as well as two novels. The X-COM series, in particular its original entry, achieved a sizable cult following and has influenced many other video games; including the creation of a number of clones, spiritual successors, and unofficial remakes.

XCOM
Genre(s)
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
  • MicroProse (1994–1998)
  • Hasbro Interactive (1998–2001)
  • Infogrames (2001–2005)
  • 2K Games (2005–present)
Creator(s)Julian Gollop
Platform(s)MS-DOS, Amiga, Amiga CD32, PlayStation, Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, OS X, iOS, Android, Linux, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
First releaseUFO: Enemy Unknown
March 1, 1994
Latest releaseXCOM: Chimera Squad
April 24, 2020

A reboot series was published by 2K Games, beginning with the strategy video game XCOM: Enemy Unknown, developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2012 to critical and commercial success. It was followed by the prequel The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and the sequels XCOM 2 and XCOM: Chimera Squad.

Games Edit

Released Edit

  X-COM series (1994–2001)
  XCOM series (2012–present)

Title Release Developer Publisher
UFO: Enemy Unknown
(a.k.a. X-COM: UFO Defense) 		1994 Mythos Games
MicroProse 		MicroProse
X-COM: Terror from the Deep 1995 MicroProse MicroProse
X-COM: Apocalypse 1997 Mythos Games
MicroProse 		MicroProse
X-COM: Interceptor 1998 MicroProse MicroProse
X-COM: First Alien Invasion 1999 Hasbro Interactive Hasbro
X-COM: Enforcer 2001 Hasbro Interactive Infogrames
XCOM: Enemy Unknown 2012 Firaxis Games 2K Games
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
(previously known as XCOM) 		2013 Irrational Games
2K Australia
2K Marin 		2K Games
XCOM: Enemy Within
(expansion of XCOM: Enemy Unknown) 		2013 Firaxis Games 2K Games
XCOM 2
(sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown)[1]		 2016 Firaxis Games 2K Games
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen
(expansion of XCOM 2) 		2017 Firaxis Games 2K Games
XCOM: Chimera Squad 2020 Firaxis Games 2K Games
XCOM: Legends[2] 2021 Iridium Starfish 2K Games

Cancelled Edit

Title Developer
X-COM: Genesis Hasbro Interactive
X-COM: Alliance Hasbro Interactive
Infogrames

Original X-COM series (1994–2001) Edit

Aggregate review scores
As of November 17, 2011.
Game GameRankings
UFO: Enemy Unknown
(X-COM: UFO Defense) 		(PC) 94%[3]
(PS) 93%[4]
X-COM: Terror from the Deep (PS) 100%[5]
(PC) 86%[6]
X-COM: Apocalypse (PC) 87%[7]
X-COM: Interceptor (PC) 70%[8]
Main articles: UFO: Enemy Unknown, X-COM: Terror from the Deep, X-COM: Apocalypse, X-COM: Interceptor, X-COM (Email games), X-COM: Enforcer, X-COM: Genesis, and X-COM: Alliance

The X-COM core series consisted of four main games published by MicroProse: UFO: Enemy Unknown (also known as X-COM: UFO Defense, PC and Amiga in 1994, Sony PlayStation in 1995), X-COM: Terror from the Deep (PC in 1995, PlayStation in 1996), X-COM: Apocalypse (PC in 1997) and X-COM: Interceptor (PC in 1998). The premise of the franchise is that an alien invasion beginning in 1999 prompts the creation of a clandestine paramilitary organization codenamed X-COM (an abbreviation of "Extraterrestrial Combat") by a coalition of funding nations. The player is charged with leading this force and tasked to secretly engage and research the alien threat. The sequels, against new alien invasions, are set underwater (Terror from the Deep, set in 2040), in a futuristic megacity (Apocalypse, set in 2084), and in space (Interceptor, set in 2067 and making it a prequel to Apocalypse).

UFO: Enemy Unknown, featuring a turn-based ground combat system, remains the most popular and successful game in the series, having been often featured on various lists of best video games of all time.[9] The first sequel, Terror from the Deep, was quickly created by MicroProse's internal team; based on the same game engine and used largely identical gameplay mechanics. Apocalypse took several new directions with the series, introducing an optional real-time combat system and shifting the aesthetics to a retro-futuristic style. A spin-off game, Interceptor, constitutes a hybrid of a strategy game and a space combat flight simulator.

After Interceptor, Hasbro Interactive purchased MicroProse, acquiring its studios and the X-COM brand. There were talks of X-COM toys, comics, and even a cartoon show.[10] A budget range, turn-based tactical play-by-mail multiplayer game Em@il Games: X-COM was released in 1999. In 2001, Hasbro published X-COM: Enforcer, a poorly received third-person shooter loosely based on the events of Enemy Unknown, marking a low point in the series. The X-COM games were also released as part of four compilation releases: X-COM (Collector's Edition) (1998),[11] X-COM Collection (1999)[12] and X-COM: Complete Pack (2008),[13] as well as in 2K Huge Games Pack in 2009.

At least two more major titles have been planned for this series. One of them was X-COM: Genesis, a real-time strategy and tactics game "going back to the roots but in full 3D."[14] Another was X-COM: Alliance (also known as X-COM 4 and the project Fox Force Five), an Aliens-inspired mix of strategy game and first-person perspective tactical shooter, using the licensed original Unreal Engine. However, both of these projects were cancelled after ex-MicroProse Hasbro Interactive studios were all shut down in 1999-2000 (with Alliance being later abortively reactivated in 2001-2002 before being quietly cancelled again without any official announcement). Terry Greer, a former senior artist and head of game design at MicroProse UK, disclosed: "We'd also discussed other avenues for future games including time travel, retaking the solar system (with interplanetary distances playing a significant role in recruitment and resources), and resistance movement concept where you had to fight back after the world was taken and humanity was totally under the alien yoke."[14]

OpenXcom is an open source re-implementation of the first game in the series intended to fix all the bugs and enable modding.[15][16] OpenApoc is a similar open source project for X-COM: Apocalypse.[17]

XCOM series (2012–present) Edit

Main articles: XCOM: Enemy Unknown, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, XCOM: Enemy Within, XCOM 2, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, and XCOM: Chimera Squad
Aggregate review scores
As of September 27, 2016.
Game Metacritic
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (360) 90[18]
(PC) 89[19]
(PS3) 89[20]
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (PS3) 69[21]
(360) 68[22]
(PC) 66[23]
XCOM: Enemy Within (iOS) 92[24]
(360) 88[25]
(PS3) 88[26]
(PC) 86[27]
XCOM 2 (PC) 88[28]
(PS4) 88[29]
(XONE) 87[30]
XCOM: Chimera Squad (PC) 77[31]

In 2010, 2K Marin announced they were working on re-imagining of X-COM, relabeled as XCOM.[32] It was described as a tactical and strategic first-person shooter that would combine elements from the original X-COM alongside a new setting and viewpoint while keeping some main concepts from the original game series. The setting received a complete overhaul, now based in the early 1960s, with the original XCOM organization being a secret U.S. federal agency. Originally planned for 2011, the game was repeatedly redesigned by different studios before being finally released in 2013 as The Bureau: XCOM Declassified for Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

In 2012, Firaxis Games (led by MicroProse co-founder Sid Meier) announced the development of a Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a "re-imagination" of UFO: Enemy Unknown with real-time strategic view, turn-based combat and destructible tactical environments more in vein of the original X-COM game and set in a more contemporary setting than the XCOM game by 2K Marin.[33] XCOM: Enemy Unknown was released later that same year to critical acclaim, winning multiple "Game of the Year" awards. X-COM creator Julian Gollop hailed it as "a phoenix rising from the ashes of the X-COM disaster," saying that "it’s amazing that after 20 years, a brand that had gone so badly in the wrong direction has finally been put right."[34] It was also ported to Android, iOS, OS X, Linux, and PlayStation Vita.

In 2013, Firaxis released a downloadable content for the base game XCOM: Enemy Unknown titled XCOM: Enemy Within.[35] It was made available on Steam (which requires Enemy Unknown to play),[36] as well as for iOS, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (those versions are standalone and do not require Enemy Unknown).

In 2015, Firaxis announced a sequel, XCOM 2.[1] It was released in 2016 for Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, OS X, and Linux (Later ported to several other platforms, including the Nintendo Switch, but not iOS). Its expansion, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, followed in 2017. The next game in the series, XCOM: Chimera Squad, was released in April 2020, for Windows. Unlike the global scale of previous games, Chimera Squad focused on a specific city, giving the player control of a diverse squad of humans and aliens. The game introduced several changes to game mechanics, such as replacing randomly generated and customizable squad members with preset and unique soldiers, and utilizing "interleaved turns" (mixing turn order between the opposing teams during combat) instead of a team-by-team turn system.[37]

Julian Gollop's unofficial games Edit

The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge was a game for the PC and PlayStation 2 by Julian Gollop's Mythos Games (creators of UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-COM: Apocalypse), claimed to having been "essentially a remake of the first X-Com with 3D graphics."[38] The Dreamland Chronicles was canceled in 2001 and Mythos Games soon ceased to exist.

Laser Squad Nemesis is a 2002 low-budget PC turn-based tactics game developed by Gollop's next company Codo Technologies and very similar to the turn-based Battlescape combat system of the first X-COM. In 2005, Codo Technologies and publisher Namco also released Rebelstar: Tactical Command, a Game Boy Advance turn-based tactical role-playing game that too was reminiscent of the early Battlescape system.

Phoenix Point is a strategy and turn-based tactics video game for Windows, and OS X that has the open world, strategic layers of the X-COM style games of the 1990s like Enemy Unknown and Apocalypse together with the presentation and tactical mechanics of the more recent Firaxis reboot games.[39] The game was developed by Gollop with Snapshot Games, an independent game studio in Bulgaria. Phoenix Point, described as a spiritual successor to X-COM, was released in December 2019.[40]

Other media Edit

 
The board game at the GDC 2015

Literature Edit

Two X-COM novels have been published based on the first game in the series: Diane Duane's X-COM: UFO Defense - A Novel (1995, ISBN 0-7615-0235-1) and Vladimir Vasilyev's Enemy Unknown (1997). The reboot series' novel is titled XCOM 2: Resurrection by Greg Keyes and was published in 2015, bridging the plots of XCOM and its sequel.[41] In 2017, a second novel was published with the title XCOM 2: Escalation by Rick Barba.

MicroProse's manual/documentation writer John Possidente also wrote three short stories, "Decommissioning", "Manley's Deposition", and "Moray in the Wreck", taking place between the events of the first two games in the series. More recently, X-COM co-designer Dave Ellis and artist Jon McCoy released a free online tribute digital comic titled Deep Rising, with music created by X-COM composer John Broomhall.[42]

Board game Edit

A board game entitled XCOM: The Board Game, designed by Eric M. Lang and based on the 2012 reboot, was released on January 28, 2015, by Fantasy Flight Games.[43]

Intellectual property rights Edit

The trademark for the X-COM name was filed on May 25, 1995, by MicroProse Software. According to Julian Gollop, "They wanted us to do a deal where we would sign over any rights that we might have in return for some cash plus a high royalty on X-COM: Apocalypse. They more or less insisted on it, otherwise they were threatening to cancel the Apocalypse project, so there was a lot of bluff involved."[44] Following the acquisition and subsequent merger of MicroProse with Hasbro, the X-COM intellectual property (IP) was also transferred to Hasbro Interactive on August 19, 1998. Due to financial difficulties, Hasbro Interactive was sold to Infogrames Entertainment SA on January 29, 2001. As part of this transfer, the X-COM IP was legally transferred to Infogrames on December 21, 2001 (shortly thereafter, Infogrames was renamed Atari SA). In 2005, Atari SA transferred several IPs to Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.[45] and X-COM was transferred with them on June 12, 2005.

The X-COM IP is currently owned by Take-Two and its subsidiaries;[46] by 2007, first rumors emerged that Irrational Games (who are owned by Take-Two) were developing a new X-COM title[47] (this game eventually became The Bureau: XCOM Declassified). In May 2007, 2K Games (a subsidiary of Take-Two) inherited the X-COM franchise and re-released Terror from the Deep on Steam. In September 2008, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Apocalypse, Interceptor and Enforcer were also re-released as downloadable titles. 2K Games' XCOM, which had been in development since 2003 (prior to the IP acquisition),[48] was finally completed and released in 2012.

Inspired titles Edit

Because of the series' popularity, various other developers have created spiritual successor games similar in theme and tone of the X-COM games (sometimes called "X-COM clones";[49][50] Julian Gollop also himself called turn-based tactical game genre in general as "sons of Rebelstar" in a reference to one of his earlier games[51]). The level to which they borrow from the original series varies.

Commercial games Edit

  • Abomination: The Nemesis Project is a real-time tactics / action game developed by Hothouse Creations and released by Eidos Interactive for the PC in 1999 that has been touted as "X-COM meets Day of the Dead in real-time."[52]
  • Aliens versus Humans is a UFO: Enemy Unknown clone for the iPhone, iPad and Android.[53] Gollop highlighted it an example of "indie remakes" in his "X-Com legacy" chart.[54]
  • Guardians: Agents of Justice was an unreleased game by Simtex and MicroProse,[55] which was described as "a superhero version of X-COM."[56][57]
  • Incubation: Time Is Running Out is a turn-based combat PC game that was considered to be "what X-Com Apocalypse should have been".[58] It was developed and released by German company Blue Byte in 1997.
  • Isomer was an indie strategy game project, currently abandoned,[59] that was also heavily influenced by the X-COM series as well as other games such as Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. It blends realtime strategy combat with world exploration and sandbox gameplay.[60]
  • UFO: Aftermath is a 2003 single-player PC strategy and real-time tactics game which was heavily influenced by the X-COM series and used elements of the Mythos Games' canceled The Dreamland Chronicles. It was created by Czech company ALTAR Interactive and published by Tri Synergy.
  • UFO: Extraterrestrials, a PC strategy / turn-based tactics game that is an unofficial sequel to the X-COM games, developed by Czech developer Chaos Concept and released by Tri Synergy in 2007.
    • The follow-up game, UFO2Extraterrestrials: Shadows over Earth was originally supposed to be released in Q4 of 2012, but as of 2021 has no official release date.[61] It still remains in development simultaneously with UFO2Extraterrestrials: Battle for Mercury which is announced to launch Spring of 2021.[62]
  • UFO Online (unrelated to UFO Online: Fight for Earth) is a free-to-play, tactical MMORPG that is available only in Russian.[63]
  • UFO Online: Fight for Earth is a Steam and browser-based massively multiplayer tactical game.[64] Gollop called it "actually more a clone of Incubation."[65] It can be played in the free-to-play system using a micropayment system to generate revenue.
  • Xenonauts is a PC strategy game by British independent studio Goldhawk Interactive, again heavily influenced by the X-COM series. It is being marketed as a Cold War-era (1979 instead of 1999) re-imagining of the original UFO: Enemy Unknown and an answer to 2K's The Bureau: XCOM Declassified which alienated some of the X-COM fanbase due to its FPS-based gameplay.[66] The game missed several release dates, but was finally released in June 2014.

The franchise was also referenced in the Civilization series of strategy video games that had partially inspired X-COM in first place. The original game received an unofficial sequel in the 1997 expansion set Civ II: Fantastic Worlds for MicroProse's Civilization II, in a scenario set on the Phobos moon of Mars.[67] Firaxis' Civilization V features a unit type named XCOM Squad.

Fan games Edit

Fan-remake projects for UFO: Enemy Unknown have included X-com - Last Hope (a mod of Half-Life 2 released in 2006),[68] UFO: The Two Sides (development halted in 2011 due to copyright issues),[69] UFO: Cydonia's Fall (canceled in 2012),[70] X-COM: Origin (canceled in 2013),[71] and The Rebel Squad (an also defunct project by Sam Liu).[72]

  • UFO: Alien Invasion is an open source, cross-platform, 3D strategy / turn-based tactics fan game heavily influenced by the X-COM series.
    • A similar open source game, but which never left a pre-release phase (last updated in 2011) was X-Force: Fight for Destiny.[73]
    • Another, Project Xenocide, was aborted in 2010.[74]
  • Xenowar is an open source, simple tactical game for the Android and Windows.[75]
  • X-Com: Tactical is a board game reproducing the squad tactics element of the first game.[76]

See also Edit

  • Laser Squad: a science fiction tactical game by the original creators of X-COM and an immediate predecessor of X-COM (UFO: Enemy Unknown originally began development as Laser Squad 2[77]).
  • Rebelstar series: precursor games to both Laser Squad and the X-COM series, also created by the same developers.

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External links Edit

  • Official website
  • XCOM at MobyGames
  • XCOM Commanders: Jake Solomon and Julian Gollop interviewed at Firaxis Games
  • Enemy Unknown: An X-COM Retrospective at GameSpy

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Not to be confused with X com or EXCOMM This article is about the video game series For the board game of the same name see XCOM board game For the NASA X ray communications experiment see NICER XCOM For the file transfer computer program see XCOM Data Transport XCOM originally called X COM is a science fiction video game franchise featuring an elite international organization tasked with countering alien invasions of Earth The series began with the strategy video game X COM UFO Defense created by Julian Gollop s Mythos Games and MicroProse in 1994 The original lineup by MicroProse included six published and at least two canceled games as well as two novels The X COM series in particular its original entry achieved a sizable cult following and has influenced many other video games including the creation of a number of clones spiritual successors and unofficial remakes XCOMGenre s StrategyTurn based tacticsReal time tacticsThird person shooter Enforcer The Bureau Space flight simulator Interceptor Developer s Mythos Games 1994 1997 MicroProse 1994 1999 Hasbro Interactive 1999 2001 Infogrames 2001 2002 Irrational Games 2007 2013 2K Marin 2007 present Firaxis Games 2008 present Publisher s MicroProse 1994 1998 Hasbro Interactive 1998 2001 Infogrames 2001 2005 2K Games 2005 present Creator s Julian GollopPlatform s MS DOS Amiga Amiga CD32 PlayStation Windows PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 OS X iOS Android Linux PlayStation Vita PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo SwitchFirst releaseUFO Enemy UnknownMarch 1 1994Latest releaseXCOM Chimera SquadApril 24 2020A reboot series was published by 2K Games beginning with the strategy video game XCOM Enemy Unknown developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2012 to critical and commercial success It was followed by the prequel The Bureau XCOM Declassified and the sequels XCOM 2 and XCOM Chimera Squad Contents 1 Games 1 1 Released 1 2 Cancelled 1 3 Original X COM series 1994 2001 1 4 XCOM series 2012 present 1 5 Julian Gollop s unofficial games 2 Other media 2 1 Literature 2 2 Board game 3 Intellectual property rights 4 Inspired titles 4 1 Commercial games 4 2 Fan games 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksGames EditReleased Edit X COM series 1994 2001 XCOM series 2012 present Title Release Developer PublisherUFO Enemy Unknown a k a X COM UFO Defense 1994 Mythos GamesMicroProse MicroProseX COM Terror from the Deep 1995 MicroProse MicroProseX COM Apocalypse 1997 Mythos GamesMicroProse MicroProseX COM Interceptor 1998 MicroProse MicroProseX COM First Alien Invasion 1999 Hasbro Interactive HasbroX COM Enforcer 2001 Hasbro Interactive InfogramesXCOM Enemy Unknown 2012 Firaxis Games 2K GamesThe Bureau XCOM Declassified previously known as XCOM 2013 Irrational Games2K Australia2K Marin 2K GamesXCOM Enemy Within expansion of XCOM Enemy Unknown 2013 Firaxis Games 2K GamesXCOM 2 sequel to XCOM Enemy Unknown 1 2016 Firaxis Games 2K GamesXCOM 2 War of the Chosen expansion of XCOM 2 2017 Firaxis Games 2K GamesXCOM Chimera Squad 2020 Firaxis Games 2K GamesXCOM Legends 2 2021 Iridium Starfish 2K GamesCancelled Edit Title DeveloperX COM Genesis Hasbro InteractiveX COM Alliance Hasbro InteractiveInfogramesOriginal X COM series 1994 2001 Edit Aggregate review scoresAs of November 17 2011 Game GameRankingsUFO Enemy Unknown X COM UFO Defense PC 94 3 PS 93 4 X COM Terror from the Deep PS 100 5 PC 86 6 X COM Apocalypse PC 87 7 X COM Interceptor PC 70 8 Main articles UFO Enemy Unknown X COM Terror from the Deep X COM Apocalypse X COM Interceptor X COM Email games X COM Enforcer X COM Genesis and X COM Alliance The X COM core series consisted of four main games published by MicroProse UFO Enemy Unknown also known as X COM UFO Defense PC and Amiga in 1994 Sony PlayStation in 1995 X COM Terror from the Deep PC in 1995 PlayStation in 1996 X COM Apocalypse PC in 1997 and X COM Interceptor PC in 1998 The premise of the franchise is that an alien invasion beginning in 1999 prompts the creation of a clandestine paramilitary organization codenamed X COM an abbreviation of Extraterrestrial Combat by a coalition of funding nations The player is charged with leading this force and tasked to secretly engage and research the alien threat The sequels against new alien invasions are set underwater Terror from the Deep set in 2040 in a futuristic megacity Apocalypse set in 2084 and in space Interceptor set in 2067 and making it a prequel to Apocalypse UFO Enemy Unknown featuring a turn based ground combat system remains the most popular and successful game in the series having been often featured on various lists of best video games of all time 9 The first sequel Terror from the Deep was quickly created by MicroProse s internal team based on the same game engine and used largely identical gameplay mechanics Apocalypse took several new directions with the series introducing an optional real time combat system and shifting the aesthetics to a retro futuristic style A spin off game Interceptor constitutes a hybrid of a strategy game and a space combat flight simulator After Interceptor Hasbro Interactive purchased MicroProse acquiring its studios and the X COM brand There were talks of X COM toys comics and even a cartoon show 10 A budget range turn based tactical play by mail multiplayer game Em il Games X COM was released in 1999 In 2001 Hasbro published X COM Enforcer a poorly received third person shooter loosely based on the events of Enemy Unknown marking a low point in the series The X COM games were also released as part of four compilation releases X COM Collector s Edition 1998 11 X COM Collection 1999 12 and X COM Complete Pack 2008 13 as well as in 2K Huge Games Pack in 2009 At least two more major titles have been planned for this series One of them was X COM Genesis a real time strategy and tactics game going back to the roots but in full 3D 14 Another was X COM Alliance also known as X COM 4 and the project Fox Force Five an Aliens inspired mix of strategy game and first person perspective tactical shooter using the licensed original Unreal Engine However both of these projects were cancelled after ex MicroProse Hasbro Interactive studios were all shut down in 1999 2000 with Alliance being later abortively reactivated in 2001 2002 before being quietly cancelled again without any official announcement Terry Greer a former senior artist and head of game design at MicroProse UK disclosed We d also discussed other avenues for future games including time travel retaking the solar system with interplanetary distances playing a significant role in recruitment and resources and resistance movement concept where you had to fight back after the world was taken and humanity was totally under the alien yoke 14 OpenXcom is an open source re implementation of the first game in the series intended to fix all the bugs and enable modding 15 16 OpenApoc is a similar open source project for X COM Apocalypse 17 XCOM series 2012 present Edit Main articles XCOM Enemy Unknown The Bureau XCOM Declassified XCOM Enemy Within XCOM 2 XCOM 2 War of the Chosen and XCOM Chimera Squad Aggregate review scoresAs of September 27 2016 Game MetacriticXCOM Enemy Unknown 360 90 18 PC 89 19 PS3 89 20 The Bureau XCOM Declassified PS3 69 21 360 68 22 PC 66 23 XCOM Enemy Within iOS 92 24 360 88 25 PS3 88 26 PC 86 27 XCOM 2 PC 88 28 PS4 88 29 XONE 87 30 XCOM Chimera Squad PC 77 31 In 2010 2K Marin announced they were working on re imagining of X COM relabeled as XCOM 32 It was described as a tactical and strategic first person shooter that would combine elements from the original X COM alongside a new setting and viewpoint while keeping some main concepts from the original game series The setting received a complete overhaul now based in the early 1960s with the original XCOM organization being a secret U S federal agency Originally planned for 2011 the game was repeatedly redesigned by different studios before being finally released in 2013 as The Bureau XCOM Declassified for Windows OS X PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 In 2012 Firaxis Games led by MicroProse co founder Sid Meier announced the development of a Windows PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 strategy game XCOM Enemy Unknown a re imagination of UFO Enemy Unknown with real time strategic view turn based combat and destructible tactical environments more in vein of the original X COM game and set in a more contemporary setting than the XCOM game by 2K Marin 33 XCOM Enemy Unknown was released later that same year to critical acclaim winning multiple Game of the Year awards X COM creator Julian Gollop hailed it as a phoenix rising from the ashes of the X COM disaster saying that it s amazing that after 20 years a brand that had gone so badly in the wrong direction has finally been put right 34 It was also ported to Android iOS OS X Linux and PlayStation Vita In 2013 Firaxis released a downloadable content for the base game XCOM Enemy Unknown titled XCOM Enemy Within 35 It was made available on Steam which requires Enemy Unknown to play 36 as well as for iOS the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 those versions are standalone and do not require Enemy Unknown In 2015 Firaxis announced a sequel XCOM 2 1 It was released in 2016 for Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One OS X and Linux Later ported to several other platforms including the Nintendo Switch but not iOS Its expansion XCOM 2 War of the Chosen followed in 2017 The next game in the series XCOM Chimera Squad was released in April 2020 for Windows Unlike the global scale of previous games Chimera Squad focused on a specific city giving the player control of a diverse squad of humans and aliens The game introduced several changes to game mechanics such as replacing randomly generated and customizable squad members with preset and unique soldiers and utilizing interleaved turns mixing turn order between the opposing teams during combat instead of a team by team turn system 37 Julian Gollop s unofficial games Edit The Dreamland Chronicles Freedom Ridge was a game for the PC and PlayStation 2 by Julian Gollop s Mythos Games creators of UFO Enemy Unknown and X COM Apocalypse claimed to having been essentially a remake of the first X Com with 3D graphics 38 The Dreamland Chronicles was canceled in 2001 and Mythos Games soon ceased to exist Laser Squad Nemesis is a 2002 low budget PC turn based tactics game developed by Gollop s next company Codo Technologies and very similar to the turn based Battlescape combat system of the first X COM In 2005 Codo Technologies and publisher Namco also released Rebelstar Tactical Command a Game Boy Advance turn based tactical role playing game that too was reminiscent of the early Battlescape system Phoenix Point is a strategy and turn based tactics video game for Windows and OS X that has the open world strategic layers of the X COM style games of the 1990s like Enemy Unknown and Apocalypse together with the presentation and tactical mechanics of the more recent Firaxis reboot games 39 The game was developed by Gollop with Snapshot Games an independent game studio in Bulgaria Phoenix Point described as a spiritual successor to X COM was released in December 2019 40 Other media Edit The board game at the GDC 2015Literature Edit Two X COM novels have been published based on the first game in the series Diane Duane s X COM UFO Defense A Novel 1995 ISBN 0 7615 0235 1 and Vladimir Vasilyev s Enemy Unknown 1997 The reboot series novel is titled XCOM 2 Resurrection by Greg Keyes and was published in 2015 bridging the plots of XCOM and its sequel 41 In 2017 a second novel was published with the title XCOM 2 Escalation by Rick Barba MicroProse s manual documentation writer John Possidente also wrote three short stories Decommissioning Manley s Deposition and Moray in the Wreck taking place between the events of the first two games in the series More recently X COM co designer Dave Ellis and artist Jon McCoy released a free online tribute digital comic titled Deep Rising with music created by X COM composer John Broomhall 42 Board game Edit A board game entitled XCOM The Board Game designed by Eric M Lang and based on the 2012 reboot was released on January 28 2015 by Fantasy Flight Games 43 Intellectual property rights EditThe trademark for the X COM name was filed on May 25 1995 by MicroProse Software According to Julian Gollop They wanted us to do a deal where we would sign over any rights that we might have in return for some cash plus a high royalty on X COM Apocalypse They more or less insisted on it otherwise they were threatening to cancel the Apocalypse project so there was a lot of bluff involved 44 Following the acquisition and subsequent merger of MicroProse with Hasbro the X COM intellectual property IP was also transferred to Hasbro Interactive on August 19 1998 Due to financial difficulties Hasbro Interactive was sold to Infogrames Entertainment SA on January 29 2001 As part of this transfer the X COM IP was legally transferred to Infogrames on December 21 2001 shortly thereafter Infogrames was renamed Atari SA In 2005 Atari SA transferred several IPs to Take Two Interactive Software Inc 45 and X COM was transferred with them on June 12 2005 The X COM IP is currently owned by Take Two and its subsidiaries 46 by 2007 first rumors emerged that Irrational Games who are owned by Take Two were developing a newX COM title 47 this game eventually became The Bureau XCOM Declassified In May 2007 2K Games a subsidiary of Take Two inherited the X COM franchise and re released Terror from the Deep on Steam In September 2008 UFO Enemy Unknown Apocalypse Interceptor and Enforcer were also re released as downloadable titles 2K Games XCOM which had been in development since 2003 prior to the IP acquisition 48 was finally completed and released in 2012 Inspired titles EditBecause of the series popularity various other developers have created spiritual successor games similar in theme and tone of the X COM games sometimes called X COM clones 49 50 Julian Gollop also himself called turn based tactical game genre in general as sons of Rebelstar in a reference to one of his earlier games 51 The level to which they borrow from the original series varies Commercial games Edit Abomination The Nemesis Project is a real time tactics action game developed by Hothouse Creations and released by Eidos Interactive for the PC in 1999 that has been touted as X COM meets Day of the Dead in real time 52 Aliens versus Humans is a UFO Enemy Unknown clone for the iPhone iPad and Android 53 Gollop highlighted it an example of indie remakes in his X Com legacy chart 54 Guardians Agents of Justice was an unreleased game by Simtex and MicroProse 55 which was described as a superhero version of X COM 56 57 Incubation Time Is Running Out is a turn based combat PC game that was considered to be what X Com Apocalypse should have been 58 It was developed and released by German company Blue Byte in 1997 Isomer was an indie strategy game project currently abandoned 59 that was also heavily influenced by the X COM series as well as other games such as Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft It blends realtime strategy combat with world exploration and sandbox gameplay 60 UFO Aftermath is a 2003 single player PC strategy and real time tactics game which was heavily influenced by the X COM series and used elements of the Mythos Games canceled The Dreamland Chronicles It was created by Czech company ALTAR Interactive and published by Tri Synergy Aftermath was followed by two sequels UFO Aftershock in 2005 and UFO Afterlight in 2007 UFO Extraterrestrials a PC strategy turn based tactics game that is an unofficial sequel to the X COM games developed by Czech developer Chaos Concept and released by Tri Synergy in 2007 The follow up game UFO2Extraterrestrials Shadows over Earth was originally supposed to be released in Q4 of 2012 but as of 2021 has no official release date 61 It still remains in development simultaneously with UFO2Extraterrestrials Battle for Mercury which is announced to launch Spring of 2021 62 UFO Online unrelated to UFO Online Fight for Earth is a free to play tactical MMORPG that is available only in Russian 63 UFO Online Fight for Earth is a Steam and browser based massively multiplayer tactical game 64 Gollop called it actually more a clone of Incubation 65 It can be played in the free to play system using a micropayment system to generate revenue Xenonauts is a PC strategy game by British independent studio Goldhawk Interactive again heavily influenced by the X COM series It is being marketed as a Cold War era 1979 instead of 1999 re imagining of the original UFO Enemy Unknown and an answer to 2K s The Bureau XCOM Declassified which alienated some of the X COM fanbase due to its FPS based gameplay 66 The game missed several release dates but was finally released in June 2014 Xenonauts 2 is currently in development The franchise was also referenced in the Civilization series of strategy video games that had partially inspired X COM in first place The original game received an unofficial sequel in the 1997 expansion set Civ II Fantastic Worlds for MicroProse s Civilization II in a scenario set on the Phobos moon of Mars 67 Firaxis Civilization V features a unit type named XCOM Squad Fan games Edit Fan remake projects for UFO Enemy Unknown have included X com Last Hope a mod of Half Life 2 released in 2006 68 UFO The Two Sides development halted in 2011 due to copyright issues 69 UFO Cydonia s Fall canceled in 2012 70 X COM Origin canceled in 2013 71 and The Rebel Squad an also defunct project by Sam Liu 72 UFO Alien Invasion is an open source cross platform 3D strategy turn based tactics fan game heavily influenced by the X COM series A similar open source game but which never left a pre release phase last updated in 2011 was X Force Fight for Destiny 73 Another Project Xenocide was aborted in 2010 74 Xenowar is an open source simple tactical game for the Android and Windows 75 X Com Tactical is a board game reproducing the squad tactics element of the first game 76 See also EditLaser Squad a science fiction tactical game by the original creators of X COM and an immediate predecessor of X COM UFO Enemy Unknown originally began development as Laser Squad 2 77 Rebelstar series precursor games to both Laser Squad and the X COM series also created by the same developers References Edit a b Stapleton Dan 1 June 2015 XCOM 2 Announced IGN First IGN Archived from the original on 1 June 2015 Retrieved 1 June 2015 Capel Chris J 18 July 2021 XCOM Legends is real and is an official XCOM game PCGamesN Network N Retrieved 22 February 2023 X COM UFO Defense Reviews GameRankings Archived from the original on March 12 2011 Retrieved November 17 2011 X COM UFO Defense Reviews GameRankings Archived from the original on October 21 2010 Retrieved November 17 2011 X COM Terror from the Deep Reviews GameRankings Archived from the original on November 28 2011 Retrieved November 17 2011 X COM Terror 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