UFO: Aftermath

The Good
The feeling that you didn't know what was around the corner, being able to keep taking your chopper to hotspots with your troops and not having to return to base, unlike XCOM, where you could only have 1 engagement per Skyranger. Also, most missions you did not have to keep aliens walking - you could gun them all down, and gain experience, while leaving one alive. Could change base functions on-the-fly. Soldiers, even while wounded, weren't necessarily 'out of action' like in XCOM - they could keep on fighting mission after mission. The music - it's minimalist and creepy - just like what apocalypse sounds like...and the aliens - they're just...out of this world, and sickening, like in Abomination: The Nemesis Project. The 'creeping doom' adds a sense of urgency to the game

The Bad
Not being able to get into a building and snipe. Always having to remember that dropping items or rearranging items within your backpack takes time (not instantaneous like XCOM). Not being able to make an outlay of your own base. When you get Interceptors, if 1 of the 3 in a squad gets damaged, the whole squad is grounded. When aliens invade, your men seem to be all over the place...it's a base, they know where the aliens come through... where's the organisation? Also, the fact that you can find weapons unrelated to geography - come on, how easy is it to find an AK-47 in America? Minor gripe: you only start with pistols, Uzis and shotguns - you'd think there would be some light machineguns like H&K MG36...Sometimes the enemies behave just like Abomination's cultists and follow you around. You can just crouch behind a rock and kill 8 enemies this way, with one soldier.

The Bottom Line
Buy it! You won't regret it! It's XCOM for the new generation!