X-COM (Video Game)/Trivia


 * Hey Its That Voice:
 * The Council Spokesman/Informant in XCOM: EU/EW and XCOM 2 is played by Jon Bailey. Aka, the Honest Trailers guy.
 * Dr. Shen was previously seen on Lost as that one guy in the Dharma Initiative films.
 * Bradford is Matt Horner on both a good and bad day, depending on which game he's in.
 * The ADVENT Speaker in XCOM 2 is basically Garrus Vakarian as a "perfected" Thin Man.
 * What Could Have Been: a few canceled games...
 * X-Com Alliance, a squad-based FPS where a team of X-COM soldiers got teleported away to another world, where they have to work together with the friendly aliens to survive against hostile aliens. An unfinished build of the game was discovered in late 2011.
 * X-Com Genesis, returning to the gameplay of UFO Defense.
 * Dreamland Chronicles, Julian Gollop's Spiritual Successor to X-COM which according to Word of God would have similar gameplay to Valkyria Chronicles.
 * The original XCOM Reboot concept, Enemy Unknown, which would have turned the game into a squad-based FPS set in The Fifties and serving as a prequel to the original X-COM games. The controversial and negative reception meant that it never saw the light of day. Eventually, Firaxis took charge of rebooting the series with XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Enemy Within, while the original concept was retooled into The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
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