This game was tons of fun. The cold war period was a great match to the XCOM universe, the story is nice, the action is fun but not crazy or reflex based (but very much based on staying behind cover) even though you control one character directly and send commands to another two squadmates, there is character and team evolution and meaningful choices for that with the 4 classes for your squadmates, each with different skill trees. There is no base building or tech research, instead tech improves by finding it in missions. I rather liked that there were some "missions" you could send recruits that were not in your squad to work on and bring rewards (including new recruits) and that sending them in those missions would also level up the recruits. All in all a very fun game. If I have to pick a negative point, I will mention that sometimes the AI decides to send some member of your squad running towards some crazy place in combat, which sometimes can be annoying and require more micromanagement than I care for, but I quickly learned how to place them and command them to avoid that most of the time and the crazy movements ended up happening seldom enough that they didn't bother me much.

This game was tons of fun. The cold war period was a great match to the XCOM universe, the story is nice, the action is fun but not crazy or reflex based (but very much based on staying behind cover) even though you control one character directly and send commands to another two squadmates, there is character and team evolution and meaningful choices for that with the 4 classes for your squadmates, each with different skill trees. There is no base building or tech research, instead tech improves by finding it in missions. I rather liked that there were some "missions" you could send recruits that were not in your squad to work on and bring rewards (including new recruits) and that sending them in those missions would also level up the recruits. All in all a very fun game. If I have to pick a negative point, I will mention that sometimes the AI decides to send some member of your squad running towards some crazy place in combat, which sometimes can be annoying and require more micromanagement than I care for, but I quickly learned how to place them and command them to avoid that most of the time and the crazy movements ended up happening seldom enough that they didn't bother me much.