The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

Development history

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified went through a very troubled development history, including many shifts and alterations to the game concept itself between the studios 2K Marin, 2K Australia and 2K China across the globe. The first concept of the game saw it as a first person stealth game in which the player, only equipped with a camera had to take pictures of the alien menace and study their technology. It was named simply XCOM. The whole development happened in a time period from 2006 till 2013 and the following article from the site Polygon depicts its history in detail and gives a nice insight to what might happen during the development of a big video game: Polygon: The many faces of The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.