10 Most WTF Video Game Reboots

X-COM was a beloved sci-fi strategy game series made for the PC during the '90s. Infamous for its difficulty, it was, in fact, later (and faithfully) rebooted as XCOM: Enemy Unknown in 2012, to much praise from fans of the original.

However, during that XCOM-less gap in time, we almost got a very, very different return to the classic franchise, in the form of - you guessed it: XCOM. Only this time it was an FPS set in early 1960s American Suburbia, made by some of the developers of BioShock.

We only got to glimpse it through trailers at E3 2010 and 2011 prior to its cancellation, but it appeared to involve a gameplay loop of detecting, fighting and capturing aliens disguised as innocent-looking suburbanites. Presumably, it would have expanded from there, but we'll never know, as the game vanished from the public eye before Enemy Unknown was announced just a short time later.

The game technically did see a release in 2013 as The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, a tactical, third-person shooter (also set in the '60s) that served as a more faithful origin story for the alien-fighting organization. But this new spin-off seemed to share little in common with the FPS version outside of the setting.