Brian Chiu

Clancy: The X-Com Story

"The X-Com Story is a singleplayer mod for Half-Life 2 that is currently under development. It is an original story set in the X-Com universe that will be available for free download once it is completed. The game will follow the story of Clancy, a police officer who later becomes an X-Com soldier."

Excerpt taken from:
http://www.hl2mods.co.uk/modsdetail.php?id=256

Yet to be released but I'm looking forward to seeing it (and playing it) considering it takes an old game idea/concept that was originally strategic and turns it into a first person. While it is not yet released, I still wanted to submit a post on this idea under development because not many people know what X-com is and why it would make for a great single player (or even multiplayer co-op). Here is wikipedia's best compilation on X-com.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_com

To me this would be similar to making Contra from the NES into a First person shooter.
The only problem I have with these creations, is how closely are they going to make it like the original game and is it going to be a huge cliche in terms of the aliens genre. So many have been done, and they have either failed or be a slight success.

lastly, on something not relevant to the assignment; Why are there not many (good) multiplayer co-op games that consists of 2, 4, or more players involved in a campaign story rather than a deathmatch? One game I'd like to point out is Star Wars: Repulic Commando, in which the player controls the main character that issues orders to 3 squad members. I believe that this game would have worked equally well if those 3 squad members were available to multiplayer co-op.

This is all.