All right I played lots of XCOM based games and new XCOM but none of them was as good as this one . The new XCOM was undercooked , short , without anything new or upgraded just a new graphic shit arbeit the long war changed that . Other games were closer in various degree but not enough to make it the right successor . They had their pros and cons but still It was not enough . Then I found Xenonauts and I must say that I praise the day I found it . It is hard , check . It is based in even more interesting era , check . It has better and harder air fight than original UFO check . It has new kind of weapon even more powerfull than plasma , check . It has new aircraft , check . It has multiple bases and freedom of building them , check . You don't have to go to the smallest ufo and you can bomb low priority targets , check . It has all that previous UFO had , check . Now about the cons - aliens are not as interesting as in UFO , check . New things to weapons like accessories , night vision , armor upgrade or foundry are not present like in UFO aftershock and afterlight - check . Aircraft armament which could be done better , check (Mig-31 is capable of carring machinegun and bombs and in those times building one purpose aircraft became useless . More vehicles like mechs or tanks could appear , check . Psychers and augmentation could appear , but in more beefy form than in new XCOM , check . The final mission could be better , check . Still despite it's cons Xenonauts is far better than any new XCOM and XCOM based games . The fighting mechanics is the same , the soldiers can die even with great armor (but unlike in UFO the weapons are balanced ) the game has various difficulty levels . This game is a true successor of XCOM franchise . It didn't screw up the old good elements but It removed and replaced all bad elements . And to those fanatics of UFO . Remember that old XCOM also had a cons . Same difficulty , unbalanced weapon , you had to go to every UFO .
