Earlier this year a new XCOM (no, not X-COM) game was announced to be in development at the Australian arm of 2K Marin (Bioshock 2) for PC and Xbox 360, billed as a re-imagining of the classic X-COM franchise and re-emerging as a first-person shooter.

A debut trailer for 2K’s XCOM has recently hit the waves and features some of this first-person gameplay with doses of action, as the protagonist shoots down (and electrifies) globs of black, invasive and sentient goo, while also stopping to study it.

While XCOM is clearly in an early state (with frame rate issues), it’s looking very promising indeed, so why don’t you STUDY the debut trailer to see what it’s all about:

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The announcement that a new X-COM game, or XCOM, is currently in development must have sent chills of excitement up the spines of older, hardcore gamers, and even if you’ve got reservations over the fact that the game will be a re-imagining of the original franchise in the first-person perspective, surely some of those doubts would have been quietened by the news that the team that brought you Bioshock 2, 2K Marin, is behind the helm.

News surfacing today has revealed, however, that the core team at 2K Marin will in fact not be working on this new XCOM game, but will instead be created at another developer, 2K Marin.

Confused? Hang on a minute longer.

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