The missions, though visually tedious, retain X-COM 's hꦛeart-murmuring menace. Running out of action points just as a soldier comes nose-to-proboscis with some hulking ET is true horror - he'll be dead next turn. Then a fluke shot bysomeone from ourteam scores a fatal hit, despite 8% odds of success. Joy. It's this irregular, tension-building t𝄹hat keeps the formula so fresh, even when packaged as shoddily as this.

The only major alteration is that cash now comes from building a base in each zone of the globe - occasionally contested by the efforts of aliens. It's simpler, but less satisfying than the old way of winning the purses of nations by consistently keeping their𝄹 populace safe from ram♛paging space beasties.