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IllusionOfLife
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Joined: 04 Mar 2010 Posts: 289 Location: West Jordan, UT
Citizen Skywatch 2K Game's XCOM ARG Reboot So 2K Games has relaunched the XCOM ARG, I'm not sure how much this will have relate to last year's short lived Project: Enemy Unknown ARG, but here is the new site:
http://www.citizenskywatch.com/
NOTE: You need to register as a new user, your Infinivac Network log-ins don't work.
Also:
http://www.facebook.com/CitizenSkywatch
http://twitter.com/citizenskywatch
http://forums.2kgames.com/forumdisplay.php?100-Citizen-Skywatch
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:23 pm
stinji
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Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 270
nice. signed up
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:09 pm
GuestUser17
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Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
http://projectenemyunknown.com/ has a zipped file that contains a large text file of jibberish.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
If you rename the file to give it a .mpg extension you will find a new video.
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:21 am
Macavity
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 883 Location: UNSC Comm Relay Station Alpha, West Shokan, NY
Ditto here, on the signing up.
(On a side note, where is this video? The only thing I've been able to get so far is the "PROJECT TERMINATED" flash file, which does a mock core dump if you click on it.)
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:28 pm
IllusionOfLife
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Joined: 04 Mar 2010 Posts: 289 Location: West Jordan, UT
Macavity wrote:
Ditto here, on the signing up.
(On a side note, where is this video? The only thing I've been able to get so far is the "PROJECT TERMINATED" flash file, which does a mock core dump if you click on it.)
You're halfway there, after the core dump, click the flashing indicator at the bottom of the page to download CTZN1.zip. Change the file from CTZN1.txt to CTZN1.mpg and you'll get the video.
Also, a new letter is being sent out from the Federal Security Special Investigative Committee pertaining to evidence from Project: Enemy Unknown. Here are some scans of the letter:
http://i.imgur.com/SIwC4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/gCSbR.jpg
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:22 pm
JohnnyCon7
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Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 202 Location: Boston, MA
I got my letter, and picture today; they're the same as IllusionOfLife posted. Here's a picture of the envelope it came in.
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:26 am
Ogawa
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Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 395 Location: Omaha, NE
As if the new XCOM game didn't look cool enough (even if it doesn't resemble the original at all), now they have to suck me in with an ARG. D: Oh well, I'm registered.
I found the Citizen One call-to-arms on the main site for Project Enemy Unknown - is that how the website with the .zip file was discovered?
Edit: I couldn't get the video to run in WMP, so for those that don't have VLC or something equally awesome, I uploaded it to Youtube .
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:13 am
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A.X.
Guest
Shit I forgot to type in my address... I want a letter... Or is that the only one?
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:19 am
Greystone
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Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 373
I found a spoiler video
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:46 am
IllusionOfLife
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Joined: 04 Mar 2010 Posts: 289 Location: West Jordan, UT
Greystone wrote:
I found a spoiler video
Umm… not really a spoiler. This has been obviously XCOM from the beginning, there's just people who desperately want any news on a new GTA game so they're grasping as straws.
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:42 pm
FossilizedSauce
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Joined: 13 Jul 2011 Posts: 415
There's an actual IC discussion board for all "Citizens" on the 2K forums.
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/index.php
It's the second board under "XCOM"
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:53 pm
Ogawa
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Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 395 Location: Omaha, NE
FossilizedSauce wrote:
There's an actual IC discussion board for all "Citizens" on the 2K forums.
If you've registered for 2K's forums already, I believe that will transfer over to CitizenSkywatch as a login-with-Facebook-like feature.
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:26 am
goldkear
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Joined: 03 Aug 2011 Posts: 17
OOG: the screen shot IllusionOfLife posted on the game's offical forum in the ctzn1.zip thread, looks like they just forgot to remove the hud from the in game screenshot they used in the video, lol. kindof ruins the hole ARG this-is-not-a-game thing. [/spoiler]
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:23 am
Macavity
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 883 Location: UNSC Comm Relay Station Alpha, West Shokan, NY
It has sparked some interesting discussion, though
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Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 3:32 pm
stinji
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Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 270
has anyone decoded the binary at the beginning of the video?
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:51 pm
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