XCOM is not an easy game. Perhaps a little easier than its spiritual prequel, Enemy Unknown, but it doesn't take much to get your squad wiped out and humanity's future put in jeopardy. The Long War mod made that even more so, extending the campaign and forcing players to manage multiple squads of veterans all over the world.
It was very successful and to many, is the defacto XCOM experience of the modern age, so the modders decided that they should make more of it. They've now launched a new studio to make that happen and called it Long War Studios. It will develop a new strategy title built around the idea of defending Earth from alien invasion.
You may have heard this story before.
The name, for now at least, is Terra Invicta and unlike XCOM which focuses on the small scale, tactical battles in select environments around the world, Terra Invicta will instead look to the grand battle. The larger scale conflicts, the movement of troops and materials.
The long-war.
"An alien force has arrived in the far reaches of Solar System and begun probing Earth's defenses and building an invasion fleet. The player must assemble a council of scientists, politicians, military leaders and operatives who can unite Earth's squabbling nations with the ultimate goal of taking the fight to the aliens in the high ground of outer space."
At least that's the pitch. The game will soon head to Kickstarter to attempt to acquire the necessary funds to make it happen.
Is this the kind of game you could get behind?
[Thanks NeoGAF]
