Tag: X-Mercs

It was just two weeks ago when free-to-play powerhouse Game Insight announced they were working on a game that sounds suspsiciously like XCOM. Promising a strategy simulation where you assemble a band of mercenaries to fight off an alien, as well as using their weapons to forge your own, it wasn't hard to see where X-Mercs: Invasion was drawing inspiration from.But considering how well they pulled off Tank Domination - a game that looked an awful lot like World of Tanks - we're not complaining.Earlier today, Game Insight posted new screenshots to the game's Facebook page (joining the few that were already there) to show off the gameplay in a bit more detail. Thanks to these, we can say for sure that it's an XCOM-alike - and we can also say that it looks pretty fantastic.Hit the jump for a bunch more.

Firaxis did an amazing job resurrecting the XCOM (or X-COM, if you prefer) with Enemy Unknown. Now that their alien invasion strategy simulation has its own outstanding port on iOS, it was only a matter of time before imitators made their way to the platform as well.With a name like X-Mercs: Invasion, developer Game Insight isn't making any bones about where its inspiration comes from."In X-Mercs: Invasion, players will spearhead their very own military campaign," the developer's press release reads "by assembling an army of the finest mercenary soldiers in the world, constructing a military base, and researching and converting alien tech into deadly weapons to use against their extraterrestrial creators."