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2K Games'We didn't feel the first-person was getting 'team' across in the way any game that calls itself XCOM needs to,' VP of Product Development Alyssa Finley told Digital Spy.' When we originally showed it as a first-person shooter, the focus of the game was more on the research side and the mystery.' We hit the other critical aims like terror and tension, but didn't have that feeling of teamwork other than there were these two guys coming along behind you and doing stuff.' The developer then tried to emphasise teamwork and strategy by turning the XCOM game into a first-person/third-person hybrid. 'You could stop the game in Battle Mode, step back into third-person, build a plan for your team, and command them in real time,' recalled Finley. 'But it wasn't quite there yet, either. It was fully stopping the game, so it was almost turn-based.'
We wanted something that felt more like you're on the battlefield, bullets whizzing by your head, and you're making these decisions under pressure.' So we've been evolving to the point where we feel like we've got a really good balance between boots on the battlefield and being in command of the team.' The Bureau: XCOM Declassified will be released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on August 20.Gallery - The Bureau: XCOM Declassified images.
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Read our for more information! Just finished the game up. After seeing all the reviews I was turned off from the game but I had already pre-purchased just for all the extra things included on Steam so I thought I might as well jump in.
Being turned off from the game I went in with very low expectations but after finishing the game tonight, I must say this game was great. The past few months i've been completely bored with gaming and everytime I would launch a game, I could only play for an hour or less before shutting down.
With the Bureau I have found myself having geniune fun for the first time in a while.The first hour or two are quite tedious and boring but as soon as your squad mates start unlocking more abilities it gets better since your options on the battlefield expand. I saw lots of complaints about AI but in my instance it was working well and better than AI in other games. They followed orders on point, dodged grenades, and backed up if enemy was advancing. As for the story, i'm big on alien stories, so I might be biased but I loved every second of it. I made sure to walk around the base after every mission to collect as much info as I could and I read every single document to be found. My only complaints was the sound and voice acting was not up to standards.
Oh and who thought it was a good idea to throw in the lowest quality videos for cutscenes on the PC version?I have not seen much discussion about the game on here besides the review thread, so I thought i'd ask what others think of it?. The Bureau: X-COM Declassified definitely suffered from the development hell it was put through. There are a lot of things that are in the game that don't really mean much but are there because of reasons unknown or because it happens to have the X-COM name slapped onto it so it has to have X-COM stuff in it, and sometimes greatly to the detriment of itself and the brand.The Mass Effect style conversation wheel is pretty pointless. It doesn't do anything and most of the time it is just used as a familiar way to deliver exposition/info dumps on the player without relegating them to long-winded cutscenes.The combat is pretty standard cover shooter fare but the game really wants you to play it very strategically, which I felt like was not really required to win.
I played it on the hardest difficulty mode (never had an agent fall to perma-death either) and with near-braindead AI I found that Carter does 90% of the work to win every encounter. Your AI partners seem less like actually useful characters and more as walking ability slots. As long as you didn't waste abilities and use them consistently you could get through every encounter fairly easily. This issue is especially compounded by the fact that winning a battle means everything is reset except for your ammo, which the game throws at you relentlessly. Instantly restored health and the ability to pick agents back up (and in the hardest mode, they are taken out of the battle but cannot be killed) means that there is little consequence for a sloppy victory.The story is kinda okay. The plot twist isn't incredibly clever and games that have pulled a similar plot twist pull it off better (Contact comes to mind). Either way, it is motivation for you to go and shoot aliens.All of the out-of-mission choices are fairly unimportant.
A majority of these mechanical choices is irrelevant or a non-choice. You take the laser rifle because it is better than your old rifle, no matter what. Backpacks and agent traits seemed to be almost negligible, at least I didn't notice much of a difference, which on the hardest difficulty you think you would. The only real important choice out-of-mission is which classes to bring, which for the most part seemed to be at least based on playstyle preference. Normally that sort of clear upgrade system is not an issue but the thing is in The Bureau there is no trade-off like in older X-COM games.
I didn't get this laser rifle because I pumped enough research into it in exchange for having fewer radar dishes or not being able to buy a satellite, I got it because the game gave it to me. It is a false goody that is supposed to make you go 'Ooh, shiny!'
Without actually adding to the gameplay at all.Another major issue is enemy variety, though more with its distribution rather than the quantity. The Bureau has a small handful of unique enemies which you have to approach in different ways, but the problem is they throw out a lot of them way too early. Outsiders and Mutons and Sectopods are being thrown at you within the first hour or two. Remember how scary those were in the strategy games? Maybe some weren't that scary but imagine if you were fighting them without alien technology?
The Bureau completely disowns the tension and fear of X-COM in favor of a normal 3rd person shootfest.The gameplay loop is also incredibly repetitive due to the level design and how quickly The Bureau blows its enemy variety load. Then again, the newest X-COM suffered from this too, and even the older games did have issues with samey maps (though their more open nature and moving/pseudorandomly placed enemies did alleviate this issue, but once you've gone through your third wheat field you went through them all).In short, game is pretty mediocre, but at least it is more original than your average third person shooter. Disappointing that this product came out to be what it is now. Outsiders and Mutons and Sectopods are being thrown at you within the first hour or two.Question from someone who doesn't own the game: did they revamp the game's aliens while it was in development hell?Before the project went dark for some time before release I remember I was thoroughly unimpressed with the aliens from the early preview videos. One looked like black ooze and others looked like crystalline cube things.overall they were reminiscent of bad early 90's CGI not menacing otherworldly aliens.Did the success of the strategy game compel the developer to include aliens from that game? And if so, are the ones from the preview still in there?. Yeah, it got revamped twice.
Once after that original 2010 trailer with the black ooze got monstrously bad reception, they retooled it to generally improve on it, changing it from firstperson to thirdperson, and basically rebooted all production on it.And then again after Enemy Unknown overshot everyone's expectations they retooled it to bring it far more in line with that game's style and setting.I have to wonder if that latter one did more damage. EU was such a surprise hit back in October 2012, and the announcement of Bureau's retooling didn't come until April 2013, with the game being released in August, it sounds like they had to do a shitton of work in a pretty short timeframe, probably using code that had already been heavily revised once in the past. Sounds like a nightmare for the devs. Controls were a little annoying, like how cover and sprint were the same button. Also it wasn't a part of the established XCOM Enemy Unknown universe.
And I noticed several parts where there was no audio for major dialogue which was on the subtitles. Other than that I loved the setting they captured and the time period.
It was very pleasing to look at. The ending was trippy like you said and I felt bad when the Bureau lost who they did as part of the plot. I just wish they created backstories or allowed more customization or let you interact more with your squad in HQ so I felt as much connection with them as those agents who were in the storyline. And the dialogue choices you make were pretty superficial and had very little say on the game. That being said I guess I rate it 6.5 to 7 out of 10. Hopefully a title update can fix the minor problems on consoles. Worth $30-40 when it drops and if you really want to play it.
I had several vouchers and lots of credit on Greenmangaming and dumped them all into a Bureau preorder, I ended up paying £12 for it, including the preorder bonuses of DLC, Enemy Unknown, Spec Ops, and all the original XCOM games. It was a nice bargain, I'm not normally one to preorder but took the plunge.Then the reviews came in. I sat at work reading them all day, expecting the worst. True, the other bonuses made up for the money spent, but still I'm an oldschool XCOM fangirl and had some vague hope for it to not be awful, which the reviews claimed it definitely was. I got home, VPN'd to unlock the game on Steam,. Found I actually kind of liked it. It feels like it's in spite of itself, like there are so many things done in such a generic manner, but something about it just had a certain charm to me.
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I can't really put it any more succinctly than that, objectively I should think it's mediocre and I recognise why other people do, but I played the hell out of it and had a great time. I'd at least hope other people give it a whirl before writing it off based on the reviews, it may click for some of them.
As someone who went into the game without much knowledge of the XCOM universe, but preordered for all the bonuses as well, I had fun with it. The story was just absolutely ludicrous and the squad AI annoyed me a tiny bit at the start of the game, but seemed to not be as bad after the first couple levels and I enjoyed myself throughout the game anyway. It was a fairly solid third-person cover shooter with some nice abilities to change things up a bit so you're not just waiting for an enemy to show his head around a corner. It was also not too bad of a length either, I spent 12 hours completing the story which is a nice getaway from the standard 6 hour one we seem to get these days in non-RPG games. Overall, if you're a fan of third person shooters and don't mind a B-grade sci-fi plot, it's definitely worth it on sale. I'm quite content with my purchase of it at full price because I got the full XCOM bundle + Spec Ops + money back from GMG so I'm not too sore, but for anyone else, I'd say it's a definite sale game.TL;DR Solid third-person cover shooter mechanics with some decent abilities but a cheesy B-grade sci-fi movie storyline.
From what I've heard, it doesn't match up to XCOM canon but I'm not all that familiar with the series overall so I hold no judgement. Worth it on sale. I got 12 hours out of the story doing every side mission and going through to find all the collectibles. I too expected a mediocre game and found it to be very enjoyable. I encountered almost nothing the reviews warned of, like grenade-deadlocks and super stupid AI.
One things that mildly annoyed me where the sentry gun and drone being rather useless due to them being almost immediately destroyed by the enemies on Veteran difficulty(so much on stupid AI). Another thing: There could have been more abilities per class. If you never loose a companion, they max out quite early and stay the same for the rest of the game. There are some bugs but none that really spoiled my experience. All in all The Bureau is above average but kind of makes me want to do a Mass Effect series playthrough again, since the gameplay is very similar while ME is superior in every respect. If someone would consider playing TB but hasn't already played ME, I would strongly advice to do so first. I liked the game enough to play it through twice.
Yeah, the story's pretty lacking for a AAA game, but I'm used to playing low-budget games, where much worse stories abound. The twist is actually pretty interesting when you think about it, and I can't think of another game that has the same kind.There are a couple of key differences between Mass Effect's combat and the Bureau's that give the Bureau's more depth. Most of the abilities have synergies with other abilities within and between classes (ME's abilities are mostly buffs and buff removers, and a few to knock enemies out of cover. Their effectiveness never really depends on enemy behavior, and rarely on terrain).
The damage dealt is modified by cover (instead of cover just making it harder to aim). You'll sometimes run out of ammo if you try to win a battle just by shooting enemies that are behind cover. In some cases, you'll actually take less damage by not being in cover (when you're flanked). Enemies are characterized by their behavior, so the mix of enemy types is worth considering in a battle.The main problem with the game is that even on the highest difficulty level it's just not very difficult, so it's never really necessary to understand how the game differs from a generic shooter. The permadeath of your allies makes it so that you can't even use the tactics the game steers you toward unless your allies survive through coincidence, save-scumming, or babysitting them for a while until you figure out how to make them useful.
I liked the game a lot, as an XCom fan since the first one.However, the story was crap and super confusing at the end.I wouldn't complain much, but they made a ton of promises early on. 'You're going to investigate and have to figure stuff out and might have to leave if things are too hard and come back later'. 'You have to pick to support the gay scientist or deal with the anti-gay hatred against him'.
'There's a lot of racism back then and you'll have to figure out how to deal with that'. None of these were done, and you can even see little hints of how they might have been done but were just ignored. I found the game to be fairly generic, like at a certain point they decided they weren't going to put a single cent more into the project and shoved it out the door.The main plot involving a cover up is absurd. It requires you to believe that there is no interstate travel, no refugees, no people that just head out to find out what is going on and it spirals from there. I suspect this is left over from the original game where it would have been a couple towns in the middle of no where that were attacked. When they expanded it to a nation wide invasion, with important places being hit, very important people being killed, it just falls apart.The combat was okay, but equally generic.
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It felt like a tactical gears of war without interesting enemies.Really I wish they would have went with the second design or the first. Those had flavor and pizzazz. Manage a base, investigate scenes, provoke aliens, recovering technology. All that would have been fun.