{"id":9114,"date":"2013-05-17T15:13:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=9114"},"modified":"2013-10-04T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T13:22:00","slug":"artifact-red-x-kinda-like-x-com-but-with-reversed-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/artifact-red-x-kinda-like-x-com-but-with-reversed-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Artifact Red-X: Kinda Like X-COM But With Reversed Roles?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Artifact<\/p>\n

Squad-based strategy games are fashionable once more. How couldn’t they be? The recent XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/a> brought back X-COM, one of the most influential PC gaming franchises of all time. And, there’s also the prospect, although a dire one at the moment, of seeing a new Jagged Alliance installment<\/a>\u00a0come to life as well.<\/p>\n

However, Tier2 Games, a “dedicated bunch of game developers who want to make some great hardcore games”, as they describe themselves, don’t seem very happy with modern squad-based strategy titles though. So, they\u00a0want to create Artifact Red-X<\/a>, their own take on the genre.<\/p>\n

The idea with Artifact Red-X is to make a hybrid between a real-time “empire-style builder” with turn-based squad tactical combat, influenced by classic RPG systems. I guess they may be talking about a blend between a 4X game, a turn-based squad tactics game and an RPG.<\/p>\n

You’d be doing base building and management, research, manufacturing, alien craft interception, abductions, terror missions, enemy base raids and turn-based squad tactical combat. There’s even a human-lead council responsible for financing the invasion operations. Sounds familiar? It’s clearly inspired by X-COM. But, Humans seem to be the “bad guys” this time, invading where in X-COM they are the defenders. The novelty seems to be a sort of 4X “empire-style builder” layer.<\/p>\n

\"Artifact<\/p>\n

Tier2 Games’\u00a0Artifact Red-X<\/a>\u00a0proposal in a nutshell:<\/p>\n