XCOM: Enemy Unknown hits iOS on Thursday
We were jolly pleased when we got to play the iOS port of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and soon you should be too. The proper full game, which we're assured has "no free-to-play aspects to it," will launch this Thursday, June 20, at $19.99.
We were jolly pleased when we got to play the iOS port of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and soon you should be too. The proper full game, which we're assured has "no free-to-play aspects to it," will launch this Thursday, June 20, at $19.99.
The iOS version is a proper port of the original PC game, with the interface reworked for touchscreens. 2K has removed a few cutscenes (replaced with text descriptions) and maps, but we were told "Things that were cut really don't affect your overall experience."
And yes, $20 may be a hefty pricetag for an iOS game, but those cuts aside it is the full and proper game, with no microtransaction gubbins to buy 'energy' or whatnot. "The design of XCOM is pretty tightly constructed, and I don't think making changes to the game to support a different business model would have made sense," lead designer Jake Solomon told us in an interview.
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We were jolly pleased when we got to play the iOS port of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and soon you should be too. The proper full game, which we're assured has "no free-to-play aspects to it," will launch this Thursday, June 20, at $19.99.-
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It's kind of funny and sad to me that there's this huge uproar over the xbone DRM and the whole financial model of AAA games, while iOS games are traditionally stuck at 99 cents. A game like this makes total sense on the platform unlike something like Deus Ex, so I hope it succeeds so there will be more high quality games on iOS devices in the future.
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Yeah I need to make a blog post on this but ever since I got a 3DS, I can't really stand most iOS gaming anymore. Every single game has to be short "play on the toilet and get three stars" affairs which is not a bad thing per se but every game has to try to be Angry Birds and sell for $0.99
And games like this or Chrono Trigger where they try to be deeper affairs are nice and all but when you're playing them on a tiny assed screen but they're a game designed for not a tiny assed screen and you're playing them on mute on the shitter it really loses something. Xcom might actually work well on a touch screen but most of the time when it's something like The Walking Dead which is a PC game shimmied onto a phone, I wind up just wishing I was playing it on the PC.
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i remember them saying "it's a proper game and will be priced accordingly"... i was expecting $15, but they went to $20! i'm not going to sit here and bitch. if it's a good port and plays well on iOS then it's easily worth more than that, but i'm going to have to read some reviews first.
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Picking this up on day 1. I used to use Splashtop to play when I was at work over a remote desktop session using my ipad and controlling everything was already a breeze so I am confident that this is even better! My nights just got better :)
