Looking Forward To It The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

To be fair, by all accounts the game actually turned out to be pretty playable for someone who's into XCOM. I'm not one of those people, though; I was more interested in a Mass Effect-style adventure than in something that required real team-positioning tactics. (I got a free copy of XCOM: Enemy Unknown with my BioShock Infinite pre-order, and frankly I don't know what I'm going to do with it.)

What is terribly surprising - or at least, disappointing - given the promotional campaign's heavy narrative focus, is that reviews seem to agree on how poorly-written and lackluster the story is. I've seen some footage. This is bush-league stuff.

What I really wanted to see out of The Bureau, and what would have made me super stoked for it, was either a sci-fi adventure or an authentically-styled 60's-era sci-fi story. The reviews suggest that what's come out instead is a real-time XCOM game. That's all well and good if you actually care about XCOM, I guess. They can keep it.