So I heard a rumour...

[Kropotkin]

... about a remake of the orginal and best; UfO Enemy unknown, aka X-Com.

A friend told me on the tram the other day. As I'm not keeping up with the gaming industry nowadays, I wondered if anyone had some juicy information about that?

I wanna blast some sectoids!

[Skanky Burns]

Aside from Aftermath and Aftershock (both released), I haven't heard anything. I have played Aftermath and it is a good game, although not identical in gameplay to XCom. There are bases, but you just choose it to be a research base, engineering base, etc and a day later it is. No money management or base management. The combat is very similar though (where it gets the "spiritual sucessor" title from).

[Kropotkin]

Yeah, yeah, I've heard about those. But I'm talking about the real thing - just updated. Like they did with Pirates!

[Skanky Burns]

Unlikely. Atari own the rights.

[Quillan]

I think there are one or two mod projects that aim to make something similar to X-Com. I suppose it's theoretically possible. I did a nostalgia thing a few months ago, and played the Privateer Remake done in the open source Vega Strike engine. It was decent, and sure brought back memories.

[Skanky Burns]

http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/

[ZargonX]

I heard about a game that is remarkably similar (one might even say identical) to X-Com being made by some Eastern European development group, but I've completely gone and forgotten the name. It was coming along nicely, though, for whatever that's worth...

[DrSpike]

I haven't heard anything. As far as I know Skanky is right about the rights, and they will just be sat on forever.

[Skanky Burns]

Or until Atari gets bought out by another gaming company. One can hope.

[DrSpike]

It certainly would open up some possibilities.

[Kropotkin]

So, you should never trust what you hear on the tram - even when it's not coming from a drunken finn...

[DrSpike]

Sounds about right to me.

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Or until Atari gets bought out by another gaming company. One can hope.

*Asmodean counts his money*

Nope, sorry...not enough gunds guys. Gotta wait a bit longer for that one to happen

Asmodean

[Tuberski]

Could it be Laser Squad Nemesis ?

ACK!

[El_Cid]

In the current dev market it would be considered 'too risky' for PC or console release, without a fundemental(and probably disasterous) re-design.
It might(and has!) get 'type' versions on handhelds though:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/gba/rebelstartacticalcommand

That Laser Squad Nemesis looks good Tuberski - thanks for that