Rant/Ramble: XCOM 2 trailer reaction: I just had to

So I had heard that Firaxis and 2K had announced XCOM 2 a few days ago, but seeing as I am a pessimistic bastard who has no faith in sequels anymore *Cough* thanks Magicka 2 *Cough*, I consigned this one to the might play it bin. First of all if you haven't watched it do so now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E_-2wIJIzQ

Now let me say one thing: I wasn't Hyped until the end, when I heard the beautiful gravely rough tones of the alliance leader from the first game.

The Premise is something I can get behind, as it assumes that the invasion you stopped 20 years previous wasn't the end of the Aliens attempts to invade earth. It makes sense, considering that one of the two the endings, the 'bad' one, was the coalition leader declaring that the XCOM project was being shut down and that they will now work with the Alien leaders.

This game goes off that, that 30 second cut scene that probably all of the XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within players would have seen. Some features I really like about this new game (as announced they are subject to change) are :

Procedurally Generated missions
Mobile Base
YOU ARE THE INVADERS

The big thing that sold the last game to me was Enemy Within, as you could genetically modify and even transform your soldiers into mechs, Giant fuck-off soldiers that strolled onto the battlefield and reduced it and your enemies into smouldering piles of ash.  There is a small part of me that still is hoping they will not remove those features, but instead make them so you have to work towards them, as opposed to being relatively easy to gain.

Also can we please take a moment to just bask in the glory of that bit with the sword, im pretty fucking ecstatic about that, as I cannot count the amount of times I was caught in the shit playing the first game, as yes, the pistol had unlimted ammo and never needed reloading, but I would be a damn-sight happier if the soldiers could have used the bloody knife that was on their jacket.

All in all I cant really review this thing till it comes out November 2015, and I don't even know if I will be getting it the day it is released, as Magicka 2 did so much to knock my confidence about sequels it will take a miracle for me to pre-order something again, Perhaps this could be the night-nurse to my flu?, the amputation to my gangrenous wound?, I don't really know. But for the moment its all aboard the hype train.

I just really fucking hope it isn't like The Bureau: XCOM declassified.

Dan.