For those of you who can remember playing and becoming adicted to Julian Gollop's "X-COM UFO Alien Unknown" (Europe) or as the US and Canada knew it as "X-COM UFO Defense" then you are in for a pleasant surprise....
A remake is coming to the X-Box 360, with all the features of the old one PLUS you have first person real time control of the personel you recruit and send (sometimes to certain death) on ground missions to deal with the alien threat.
You'll still have to attract funding, maintain the project's budget, make hard decisions and cuts during hard finacial times, recruit and progress troops, gather and research alien technology, kill aliens, go on away missions and investigate alien incursions.
The usual deployment of bases globally and shooting down UFOs will also be in the game.
It will also have Co-op features for online team play.
My son, an adict of the game when he was a kid in the 1990's has been following the developments of this updated classic online.
The X-COM project is now set in the early 1960's at the start of the secret UN task force and some aspects of the beginning seem to be very X-Files in nature.
There was a PG 12 on the trailer online as some of the aliens portrayed are very shocking, especially the "Skin Of Evil" type one.
This will be probally the only serious competitor to battlefield 3 for game of the year 2011....