For the uninitiated, XCOM sets you in charge of a base funded by governments across the world to defend Earth against alien attack. To this end, you have to send squads of highly trained soldiers to intercept alien landings all over the place, with the aim of spreading their extraterrestrial innards across floors, roads, and anything else you want.
One of my chaps is firing an assault rifle through a door at the top of an aliens head as it hides behind a counter. Amazingly, he misses.
It's a remake of a much older game, X-Com, which was an absolute classic and has been brought back to life by various fan projects, most impressively by OpenXcom. Indeed, I did a series of blogs 2 years ago about a playthrough of OpenXcom - well worth a read, if only to discover the cowardness of Colonel Simon.
- Part 1 - Simon is a coward
- Part 2 - Further XCOM adventures
- Part 3 - Fighting the good fight
- Part 4 - The Final Victory!
This is what we're dealing with. Naked bald monsters with green guns that annoyingly fall into pieces when you shoot their owner.
Having had enough of shooting through doors and over the tops of kitchen counters, our hero changes tactic and walks around the counter. for an easier shot.
Anyway, with this playthrough, you can get involved (if you wish). You see, each of your soldiers is customisable.
Like Arthur here. Arthur, for example, could be given a much cooler name.
And before I start playing and blogging about it, would you like to be in it? If you would, let me know the following:
- What name your character should have (e.g. your name - or if you ever wanted a cooler name, what is your cooler name that you always wanted? Maybe add a nickname, for example Mike "Ironeater" Raven)
- How would your character play - choose from Normal, Sneaky, Tactical, Gung-Ho, Wary, or Coward. (or give me something else if you really want - but nothing too complex!)
- Anything else I should know about your character.
I'll rename a character to yours, and they'll be included in progress updates as the game goes on. So don't delay, drop me a comment below with your character! First come first served (I don't have infinite soldiers to customise) so if you're late yours might be the reserve guy who makes the coffee while the real heroes save the planet.