The Bureau: XCOM Declassified priced at Rs 2,499 on consoles and Rs 999 on PC

Take-Two Games’ distributor in India—e-Xpress Interactive—has announced that 2K Games’ upcoming tactical shooter The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, will be available in India for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The console versions of the game will cost Rs 2,499, and the PC version will be priced at Rs 999. The game will be hitting stores on August 23.

The game will tell us all about the origin of the XCOM organisation. It is set in 1962 in the midst of the Cold War. The story revolves around an organisation called the Bureau that was created to deal with the Soviet Union, and then turned into a group that would take on the alien threat.

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The protagonist is special agent William Carter, who, much like the Men In Black, fights against an alien invasion and has to keep the common populace in the dark. The gameplay itself revolves around commanding a squad of soldiers in real time. Similarities can be drawn between The Bureau and the classic Full Spectrum Warrior.

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The game has been in development for ages, and was announced even before the Firaxis strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown was unveiled. It was originally going to be an FPS, but that idea seems to have been scrapped in favour of a third-person squad-based shooter. This was, in no small part, because of the negative reaction 2K got for converting what was once a much-beloved tactical strategy series into a typical modern-day shooter. This was further compounded by the studio stating that strategy games weren’t contemporary anymore. However, the success of Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown—a turn-based tactical strategy game—has undoubtedly eased 2K’s doubts about the genre’s popularity.