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I will be doing of an analysis of The Bureau as I play along it. I have currently finished to 1st level and will update this as I go along and play more of it. Note that this post will contain spoilers. For my video series of it, the link can be found here: [video=youtube;nI5Sotr6AGs] Well, the first mission starts out as the aliens attack Groom Lake (Area 51) supposedly for some device in a briefcase. You group up with a skilled agent (who for some reason needed your help) and try to rescue the brass. Nothing's too odd except that the base gets quickly screwed over (they store the advanced tech there) and the fact your go through an Elerium mine/research facility where they are making advanced weapons, elerium generators, and elerium nukes. You soon later learn that there are multiple elerium deposits on Earth (so much for a rare element) and get sent to rescue the heads of some of the Heads of America's top government agencies. All are killed by an MC general. In the end, the base gets evacuated (all 6 of you) and gets nuked. You also get another squaddie who can deploy a laser turret. When you reach XCOM HQ, you get told that all communications worldwide have ceased (for the most part) and that they're covering it up. Analysis: It makes XCOM look technology founded with lasers, elerium, and cloaking, but Area 51 gets destroyed. The aliens are attacking in mass and there should be no way to cover it all up. Also, elerium covers Earth. Really destroys the plot tie-in with EU, at least so far. More to come soon.

i love xcom i still play the first one time by time. and i liked the new reboot. BUT i thought that i would never like the ide of a FPS (well it is a third person game now) version of xcom. there are two main thing that got my hype motor up first it is set in 1960 and it is about the first day of xcom and you have your base and you could hire new agents and set them out on different places in the world but it is a fps the basic xcom stuff but dumb down or what you call it in eng. but i rather have a old school xcom that is about the first days of xcom. sorry for my bad grammar and sorry if it is hard to understand what i am trying to say

This just in: that other, more, uhm, "contemporary" game which pits humans versus extraterrestrial invaders has slipped past its expected release date of March 9, 2012 into Take-Two's next fiscal year. 2K Marin, the studio behind the project, allegedly laid off 15 developers a couple of weeks ago, so the delay wasn't entirely unexpected. While I can't say I eagerly anticipate XCOM's release, the game's art direction and sound design have done enough to keep me vaguely interested. Also, I'm not fundamentally allergic to first-person shooters, and the studio already has one such game I enjoyed (BioShock 2) under their collective belt. However, I was really looking forward to witnessing Xenonauts and XCOM go at it head-to-head, and as a result, Team Goldhawk gaining more traction by doing justice to the roots of the franchise. The chances of that happening just slimmed down considerably. Bummer. On a brighter note, at least we've won extra time to make converts out of the youth of today before they blow their pocket money on some cookie-cutter FPS with space aliens!