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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified debuted with a pretty great live-action trailer, and 2K Games has ensured that it is not the last of the game's live-action marketing campaign. On July 22nd they released the "The Choice" trailer, in which Lost star Dominic Monaghan portrays the distraught XCOM agent Ennis Cole as he comes to grips with a tragic turn of events. Viewers were encouraged to use Twitter in order to decide his fate: should he take up the bottle, drinking himself into oblivion in order to fend off the memories, or the gun, which would make for a more permanent solution?
Fans chose the bottle, and here we see the full scene play out. If this is any indication of the tone of The Bureau's story, consider me very impressed. The direct control of a singular defined protagonist switches things up from a gameplay perspective, but I'm also glad to see that 2K is using this opportunity to craft a more personal story and bring life to the individual soldiers we so readily threw into the line of fire in 2012's XCOM: Enemy Unknown. This is a vision of an honest, compelling tragedy, and seeing the epilogue of Agent Cole's story is something I'm interested in.
Note that he is not the main character of The Bureau's story- that title belongs to Agent William Carter- but one wonders if, should Agent Cole survive the events of this live action mini-series, he will appear in the game itself.
Agent Cole's story continues with the next video, which will release July 26th.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified hits store shelves on August 20th. It will be available for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC.
Comments
10 years, 9 months ago
was the person typing one of the hobbits for LotR movies?
that live-action commercial gave me chills..
10 years, 9 months ago
I swear to god this marketing campaign needs more Peter Gunn theme.
This is an interesting way to go with getting people involved with the cinematic side of the game, but I'm the tiniest bit worried this is foreshadowing for giving every agent a depressing-ass backstory. That seems a bit unappealing considering how many people sounded perfectly stressed enough worrying about relatively flat characters in XCOM: EU.