The game works inclucing the videos, it's pretty unstable, crashing to desktop every hour or so. It's just not a very good game, the balance is all over the place. As an example: The Ork lifta droppa weapon is an instant kill against anything that isn't a titan but does literally nothing against titans so slowly over time you make more and more of your force titans. Units have low chances to hit and rng seems to be buggy in that it rolls low a lot of time. Your army can fire for an entire turn and literally hit nothing. There's no options to impact that. If you play through the campaign that can be fun. If you have fond memories of playing this when you were younger I would suggest leaving it alone.
Did you play xcom and think that it would be much better if it was: slower, much less fun and had terrible music? Because that's what's on offer. The game is a slow, dreary and boring slog. Cannot recommend to anyone. Enemies respawn endlessly and don't grant exp on killing them (the team gets a fixed amount for completing the mission) so combat just feels like busy work and when the core gameplay loop feels like busy work you've made a bad game. I think the intent was to make the player feel pressured and on the backfoot instead you just feel like you're box checking. It got a little more fun after I swapped the music for something with some energy but it's still too dull to enjoy. This game is worse than xcom apocalypse, it's worse than xcom interceptor, it's worse than ufo aftermath and about on a par with ufo aftershock.
