Still early, but the original X-Com games and TFTD come to mind. I'm getting old, but old is the new good.

As someone who has put hundreds of hours into Xenoauts, I feel comfortable saying after playing only 3 hours this game is a amazing.

Xenonauts 2 is simply a remake of Xenonauts 1 and is just an improvement. What makes this better than Xenonauts 1 is a number of things, but the biggest ones I've noticed are these.

- Improved graphics, the game translated from 2D isometric view to 3D and many of the models from the first game translate well over into the environment.
- Rotatable camera. With the new 3D environment you can now rotate the camera. By default the camera rotates by 90 degrees but you can change this to free form in the options menu. I usually forget the camera rotates because I'm so used to the first game.
-Base management has been expanded. Quite literally too I noticed the bases are larger than the first. However, the game now also features little mechanics such adjacency bonuses which encourages you to organize your base more rather than slot stuff down. There is also now a power mechanic in which you need to build generators.
- Writing is a lot better. This is a more biased personal opinion. I love Xenonauts 1 research entries, but so far Xenonauts 2 seems to be trying to aspire more to the Lore+ mod for Xenonauts 1. There are a lot more entries and now that there are more than one character in the game aside from research guy a lot of the texts have more flavor to them.
- Human baddies. Yep, you're not just fighting aliens now. The start of the game you're fighting an org. called the "Cleaners" and so far the in game lore makes me more sympathetic to the guys which I won't spoil.
- Different mission types. There are a ton of more mission types in this game. Many of which remind of Firaxis's Enemy Unknown Council Missions. Which adds way more diversity into the game rather than "Shoot down UFO > recover UFO > Go after landed UFO > Take on Terror Mission > Repeat." Now a lot more missions have flavor to them and it creates a more emergent story.

There are way more things too which I won't cover as the review is getting very long. As of now of writing this the game is still in EA but I say that so far there is plenty of content here to sink many hours into to get its moneys worth.

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