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[DarthHelmet86]

John_sabugs what people do you think will be attracted to the title X-Com, New gamers who have never heard of the original series or people who know the original series? New gamers don't know the series, the name might as well be Alien Shooter 4 to them, people who know the older series are more likely to be critical of the newer game.

Cynically everything a game studio does is marketing, even back in the day it was all about marketing. Retooling an older game for a newer age is a lot easier then making a whole brand new game, it saves you money and already has a fan base to buy into it. But it also brings in it's own problems, gamers are more likely to be overly critical of any changes to the original game and unfairly judge the new game or outright hate it before they know anything about it. Marketing people know this they aren't idiots...well some of them are.

So far everything I have seen about this new X-Com has shown that Friaxis is not just doing this as a marketing ploy to lure people in. The people who made it seem to be genuine fans of the original games and want to bring the series back from the dead so more people can enjoy it and hopefully more games can be made from it. If this is successful I wouldn't be surprised to see it get it's own sequel, perhaps a retooling of Terror from the Deep and that is something I would love. Sure the game might not end up being perfect but what game is, the originals sure weren't, they had their flaws just like every game does.