Aliens! No, not the illegal kind... Thread

Okay, Frosty here with another interesting idea. Many people seemed to like my previous mod idea, so I decided to come up with another. Once again, it is designed to be used with the Far Cry engine (CryTek), because of the large environments, multitudes of enemies and extreme customizability.

Anyone here remember an old game? Goes by the name of X-COM: UFO Defense (although some others may know it as UFO: Enemy Unknown). It was an awesome game for it's time, absolutely brilliant. It was a tactical-level unit strategy game much like Jagged Alliance and the recent S2: Silent Storm, where the player had command over his units in a turn-based battle. In addition to this, it had an RTS-esque element where the player constructed bases and recruited new units, or researched alien technology and shot down UFOs on a 3D map of the world (known as the GeoScape).

Well, that's the setting folks. It is approaching the year 2000, and Alien sightings are increasing rapidly. So the UN declare that a multi-national defense force be organised to respond to threats all across the globe. X-COM, the extraterrestrial combat unit is born.

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This X-COM mod would:

- Be single-player only
- Offer the player a selection of four career paths to follow in X-COM:

- Soldier: This career path would appeal to fans of FPS. The player starts off as a private and battles the alien invaders on the streets and take the battle back to the Alien homeworld. As the game progresses, the player earns skills and grow as X-COM grow.
- Pilot: This career path would appeal to fans of flight simulations. The player flies in an aircraft in a number of missions and shoot down UFOs, defend ground forces, defend bases, and eventually fly over the alien homeworld.
- Scientist: This career path would appeal to fans of adventure/puzzle games, or pretty much anyone. This would just be a novel idea, in which the player researches alien technology and investigates the paranormal events (interrorgating alien captive, disecting dead aliens, researching quantum physics, investigating crashed UFOs) and would be presented like an adventure game crossed with RPG elements from a first-person view.
- Commander: This career path is much like the original X-COM, in which the player has complete command over the forces of X-COM. The player must defend planet earth from the invading aliens by carefully managing his forces, and eventually take the battle back to the Alien's homeworld.

I'll post more later, but really, this is an interesting idea I have and to post it all would take three pages (!).

Sounds great

what about copyright issues ?

I agree wouldnt that be copyright? anyways sounds like a great game.

Copyright? HA! Tell me then, which company owns the copyright? Each company who brought Micropose sold them until eventually Micropose was closed down.

I'm going to post a rough Design Document tonight.

X-Com UFO Defense was one of my favourite games way back when!! Remember the aliens that looked like fountains?

hey frosty ease down, im just asking a question trying to save yer but here buddy.

"Copyright? HA! Tell me then, which company owns the copyright? Each company who brought Micropose sold them until eventually Micropose was closed down. "

Trust me people won't want to be in your mod, if your saying things like that..

(just some advice)
It was someones idea. The creator still has copyright to it, you should think up your own original idea for a mod.

- Edited By tal_nova On Mon 9th, Feb 2004 @ 11:23:02pm

I wasn't making fun or anything, I was laughing at how the copyrights of the X-COM series have been handled. Hasbro, famous for their Monopoly, decided to close down one of Micropose's studios, and in the end two of the best new X-COM games were cancelled, and the atrotious Enforcer was released. Come to think about it, sounds sort of like how Interplay handled BIS, and shutdown Fallout 3 in favour of the console F:BOS.

Anyways, I e-mailed Atari about it, just out of curosity (I did the same thing to Blizzard asking whether they would make another Blackstone sequel, and they really didn't find it funny . For those of you who don't remember it, don't worry, it was released in 1993 or thereabouts), and also to ask them about other copyrights that I am not at liberty to divulge, and Mr. Curry, an employee of Atari, has fortunately decided to see what the Legal Team thinks about it.

Trust me people won't want to be in your mod, if your saying things like that..

It was an idea. Really, I couldn't make this mod. I was just tossing around some ideas.

The creator still has copyright to it, you should think up your own original idea for a mod.

That I am doing.

"That I am doing."

GREAT!