14 DAY TRIAL // Morgan Gray, the creative director working on The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, says that his team is aiming to make the game appealing to long-term fans of the franchise, while also introducing elements that will draw in first-person shooter fans.
He tells Gamespot that, “we know there's also a percentage of the gaming public that thinks - probably foolishly – they don't like turn-based games. They like a lot of action. They'd like a lot of the tenets of XCOM in a genre that's a little more immediate for them.”
In The Bureau, the action is not seen from an isometric perspective, like in the recent Firaxis reboot of the turn-based strategy series.
Players can get right into the action and will be able to control their own character and two teammates as they take out invading aliens.
The Bureau will be out on August 20 on the PC, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360.