It's political "anti white man" narrative is so forced and heavy handed I couldn't get through the first 2 hours. I couldn't get invested in any of the characters, and the gameplay loop is so far streamlined it's like they should have kept it seperate from the franchise itself.
The breaching systems are so broken mechanically it takes all the challenge out of a map, there are no random soldiers (you pick 1 of 2 while recruiting) and as far as I could see there were no systems simillar to genemods, psi, or cybernetic trade off upgrades like in previous games.
I've played every xcom game since UFO. This isn't worth it for long time fans, maybe someone who isn't used to strategy games would have fun with this, but I sure as hell didn't.

It's political "anti white man" narrative is so forced and heavy handed I couldn't get through the first 2 hours. I couldn't get invested in any of the characters, and the gameplay loop is so far streamlined it's like they should have kept it seperate from the franchise itself. The breaching systems are so broken mechanically it takes all the challenge out of a map, there are no random soldiers (you pick 1 of 2 while recruiting) and as far as I could see there were no systems simillar to genemods, psi, or cybernetic trade off upgrades like in previous games. I've played every xcom game since UFO. This isn't worth it for long time fans, maybe someone who isn't used to strategy games would have fun with this, but I sure as hell didn't.