Analyst: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified will come up short

I'm kind of torn here: Last year's Enemy Unknown was refreshing and fantastic to play! Why change it? There is no game like it in a market oversaturated with FPS and other shooters... I wish them well; I hope the risk taken pays off. I hope The Bureau truly brings out the magic Enemy Unknown delivered.

I'll give the game a fair chance. aiting for it to cime out!

I'm not going to buy this XCOM game when it comes out, waiting for the reviews. My main issue is that it's not turn-based strategic combat, a defining aspecto of XCOM games. Enemy Unkown was fantastic (imo should of been GOTY). This game seems like someone trying to capitalize on the renewed interest in the franchise.

This game remind me of Brother in arms series, instead of Germans, add aliens.

Nothing groundbreaking here, and the news it will come up short is no surprise for people been following it.

Well, I hope it is good and out sales what the so called analyst say. This actually looks halfway decent!

You know guys games like this could be more than viable if studios and publishers would START BEING HONEST ABOUT PROJECTED SALES FROM THE GET GO.

Not every game is going to be COD and sell 10 million copies. Hollywood has long had a good record with making lower budgeted films that go on to be profitable. Games like XCOM with long development cycles and that are scrapped and reworked are destined to not be successfull, and my take is that the studio and 2K both know this allready. A new take on an old IP at the end of a console's developement cycle that has been scrapped and rebuilt adding further cost is just not a good business formula.

The sad state of affairs is that these guys aren't dummies and have the same knowledge base that you are I have. Must be a bummer working on something that you might love only to know it is not going to be a winner.

Good! I hope it sells nothing!

Where was the Research? The Base Building? The NonLinear maps? The Manufacturing? The Money Control? The HWP/Tanks? The Interceptors?

The cold truth is they never wanted this game to be X-COM. I mean, just look at how much it rips-off Mass Effect, and I don't even know much about Mass Effect.

Did *anyone* ever say: "Gee, X-COM plays a lot like Mass Effect?" Because never once did I thought an FPS X-COM would ever play like Mass Effect. I have thousands of ideas for a FPS X-COM, and Mass Effect was never one of them. I was following this game from 2010, and it's sad that this is what they came up with.

Oh, and this game is said to have lots of day one DLCs. So enjoy playing an incompleted game.

No shit..It's got barely any hype..

@Boots Buchanan They made it an fps to appeal to a larger audience, they made it 3rd person to win back the fan base.

Bullshit, i have pre-ordered that game and I only pre-order games that are best sellers. Mark my words, it's a sleeping hit. I know, im fuking in gaming longer than these so called analysts. 1-1.5 mln by the end of 2013 and up to 3 mln sold by the end of fiscal year in 2014(March/April) after price cut and new edition annoucements - with dlc included et al.

Are they trying to let us know in advance that the game will suck balls ?

Hmm. New IP predicted to have weak sales huh? Shocker.
They should have called it Gears of Creed: Bureau Zombies and watched those pre-orders skyrocket.

they need more advertise, positive one for sure.

Still getting it, gameplay seems good and I loved Enemy Unknown . Plus right now on steam and GOG is 44.49 with bonuses on steam.

So getting this game

amazing how far we've progressed from reading tea leaves and goat entrails.

Just because he said that, I'm going to make sure I buy 750,000 copies so that every analyst for that company can do one thing. Kiss my ass. I love XCom games, I love the genre and I'm sure, based on what the newest XCom game did, that 250k is probably forecasting it a little short. There's probably that many preorders on Steam alone.

I agree. I have absolutely no interests in this game. I hate most third person shooter and I have this time period.

@Malcolm Balogun Enemy Unknown ruined it for *me* with its shameless raping and pillaging of the X-Com name, braindead, thoughtless "strategy," hair-pulling handholding, awful presentation, its stupid visual style, and the complete absence of Geoscape simulation.

I guess that's just me.

I think that probably depends on how good it is. I know I think it looks interesting, but given it's troubled development, I'll be waiting for reviews to see if it lives up to that curiosity.

The original xcom is real live it has a moody feel to it that most games lack ...good gamee

They should have sticked with the Enemy Unknown battle format. But I'm buying this anyway, I don't care.

I'm very intrigued by the game, it's just too bad they didn't spend more time advertising it to build more hype. I hope it'll be good.

Although the game does look interesting ,I can't afford to get it when it comes out because I am getting payday 2 the week before and then getting saints row 4 the same week that xcom comes out .I think many other gamers will be in a similar position

Funny thing is that I would have bought the FPS. It actually looked interesting. The success and quality of Enemy Unknown actually made trying to morph this game into a hybrid a worse idea than expanding the IP into a new genre.

The game looks interesting, and 2k Marin is a great development team, but I think he's right. A full price, single-player only, low on replay value game launching the same day as the next Splinter Cell and Saint's Row installments?

Good luck with that.

It really is doomed. Too obscure for the idiot gamer who likes bro shooters, and the wrong genre for the actual X-Com fanbase who likes strategy.

ffs just give me x-com enemy already known 2

Or maybe people are FINALLY wising up to what a rip-off pre-orders are?

All I can say is, look at that still shot in the video. Does that look absolutely freaking stupid?

Yes. Yes it does.

This 'quasi-strangereal 50's and 60's' thing needs to stop. Seriously. It needs to stop cold, and everyone with a history of it in their resume needs to be excised from the industry. It was cute for a while, but this one-trick pony needs to take a nice ride to the glue factory.