A spiritual successor to the X-COM franchise is coming from developer Snapshot Games Inc.
Phoenix Point is the creation of X-COM veteran Julian Gollop and Gaming Insiders founder David Kaye, and is a turn- and world-based strategy game in which players take on the role of members of the Phoenix Project, a worldwide organization.
Speaking to the game's backstory, Gollop told us the Phoenix Project was formed "shortly after the second world war" as a U.N.-funded, worldwide organization. "It was organized on a sleeper cell basis," he said, "so the idea was that in when the world is in peril, "these cells would come together at specific points all over the world" to deal with the looming crisis.
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Phoenix Point is the creation of X-COM veteran Julian Gollop and Gaming Insiders founder David Kaye, and is a turn- and world-based strategy game in which players take on the role of members of the Phoenix Project, a worldwide organization.
Speaking to the game's backstory, Gollop told us the Phoenix Project was formed "shortly after the second world war" as a U.N.-funded, worldwide organization. "It was organized on a sleeper cell basis," he said, "so the idea was that in when the world is in peril, "these cells would come together at specific points all over the world" to deal with the looming crisis.
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