XCOM: Enemy Unknown interactive trailer is next-best thing to playing
An interactive trailer for XCOM: Enemy Unknown lets you choose some of the mission elements.
You've probably already downloaded the demo for XCOM: Enemy Unknown. But if for some reason you haven't, a new trailer offers interactive elements to give an approximation of playing the game. It's not quite the same, but it'll do in a pinch.
The trailer takes you into a battle, letting you choose options like what type of team to bring, or what to do with the aliens once they're on the run. Check it out below, or read our hands-on preview for more details.
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An interactive trailer for XCOM: Enemy Unknown lets you choose some of the mission elements.-
I was telling my woman about this game... mostly about how I would be unavailable on Oct 9th-Forever. Then she tells me we are going to he house-sitting until Oct 12th!
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Time to buy a laptop
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treat it like a LAN... pack that PC up.
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Exposed heads always bugs me.
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I believe you can put helmets on them if you want
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I am glad you say that because this trailer was my brainchild :D
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Very nice! A great trailer methinks.
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Good work, OverloadUT!
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That's what I originally named the video but people told me to change it I have no idea why
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I could have guessed as much... wait I did, as I was loading it up I said to my brother that this had to be your idea :) Well done, although the disclaimer at the beginning made me chuckle where it said that in the full game you could control your soldiers yourself.
Been expecting such "choose your own adventure" style youtubes for some time and this is a great example how the medium can be used. -
OAT, you rock.
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DAHANESE AND I CAME UP WITH THE IDEA TOGETHER LIKE A MILLION MONTHS AGO I AM SORRY DAHANESE
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I can always depend on you C*Star
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The idea is now dumb.
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well done
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Choose your own adventure, video style. I like it.
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speaking of XCOM: Enemy Unknown:
I've played the demo like 20 times and I really really can't wait for the game to come out. Is there anything similar I could play until the 9th so I don't have to keep playing the same mission over and over?-
Frozen Synapse!
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neat. anything that's all 3D like XCOM, though?
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UFO: Extraterrestrial with this mod, apparently.
http://www.ufo-scene.com/plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?1576
Supposedly it turns a so so game into something that recaptures the xcom feel, but I've not tried it myself. Has anyone here given it a shot? -
Check out the demo for Silent Storm
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Not sure why they are hammering at the idea throughout the trailer that playing aggressively is synonymous with completely ignoring cover.
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Haha, yeah that wasn't necessarily the intention. We just wanted to show terrible strategy (like staying out in the open) resulting in lots of death
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I understand, although the trailer comes across like there's a cut and dry right (defensive) and wrong (aggressive) way to play, rather than there being room for different play styles. Aggressive means death, instead of the reality I saw in the demo where it was totally viable.
Aggressive should be a supported play style via the right squad composition choices and intelligently moving aggressively into forward cover positions, etc.
Just kind of a bummer for me to see a legitimate and effective tactical style portrayed as Leeroy Jenkins mode.
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I think the panic routine is run to cover if exposed, otherwise do something random like shoot at an alien, hunker down, or go to overwatch. They still act, you just don't get to pick what they do! (also they only get one action rather than a full turn)
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Yeah, this way is panic as in "not following orders" rather than "becoming a raving lunatic"
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I think it's great that they also shoot their own guys. I know if I was surrounded by aliens that could mind control that's the first thing I'd do.
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One time I had two dudes panic, and the random thing they did was shoot and kill two Cryssalids. BEST PANIC EVER
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They've said that they will shoot randomly also. So they can tear into teammates.
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Yeah I meant to say shoot in general, not shoot an alien necessarily!
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Do they scream "suppressing fire!" and shoot the one black astronaut?
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The demo was 2 levels, right? Super short?
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yeah, it's a bit of a bummer. I downloaded it as soon as I saw it was live, which was before I found out it was real short and not really replayable. Still fun though, but if you have a BW cap then yeah, it's not 5GB of fun. Luckily I was at the end of my cap and had plenty of gigs to spare, otherwise I would have waited (forever).
Apparantly it's huge because there's 4GB of movies which are never even played. haha.
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