The way forward for XCOM stays unknown, but when the franchise does make a return, a veteran of the sequence wish to take a stab at it once more. In a brand new interview, X-COM creator Julian Gollop revealed how he’d prefer to return to XCOM in some capability if he was ever provided the prospect to take action, and he was more than pleased to nonetheless be affiliated with it after so a few years.
“I’m completely blissful being generally known as the XCOM man,” Gollop mentioned to Eurogamer. “I imply, it was a foundational recreation in my profession, and doubtless additionally, in some methods, a foundational technique recreation in technique gaming on the time–even although not lengthy after it got here out, the real-time-strategy scene actually took over.”
Gollop jokingly talked about that he was “nonetheless ready” for a name from Firaxis boss Sid Meier to come back work on a brand new X-COM recreation, and at present, he’s engaged on a real-time action-strategy title known as Chip ‘n Clawz vs. the Brainiods. Whilst you’ll want to assemble assets and lift a military, the sport additionally helps you to enterprise onto the frontlines to do battle alongside your troops, and it’s scheduled to be out later this yr.
XCOM has had a protracted historical past beginning with UFO: Enemy Unknown–AKA X-COM: UFO Protection in different components of the world–all the way in which again in 1994. The 2010s noticed a number of video games within the sequence launched, with Firaxis’ X-COM: Enemy Unknown and X-COM 2 being huge vital hits. The most-recent video games within the sequence embody X-COM: Chimera Squad in 2020 and the free-to-play X-COM Legends in 2021.
In the meantime, Firaxis has saved busy with different recreation tasks, like Marvel’s Midnight Suns in 2022 and the current launch of Sid Meier’s Civilization VII.