Think strategically or die. That is the motto you live by in this awesome reboot of the long ignored but never faded title. After your first fight you get to head back to base and begin customizing soldiers the way you want, even so they are named after and resemble your friends and family, giving you just that much more investment in their continued survival. But soon the fights become more intense with choosing between moving your characters to better positions or taking the risk to stand your ground and fight. The enemies you face get progressively harder as you advance through the story (unless you're on a harder difficulty then then they get harder no matter how much you've progressed) and all of them have different ways of fighting you off. The tension is always up to 10 and goes to 11 on those times where you're outnumbered, outgunned and running low on medikits. Even if you make it back to base the tension does not let up. Different countries start to panic and threaten to leave the council that fund your operations. You live or die on the choices you make on a shoe-string budget. You even begin to sell off important assets just to make it a few more days. This game is concentrated intensity and it will have you biting your nails and praying for just one more well-placed shot/credit/day/less panic bar/engineer/scientist/mission/movement tile/round all the way into the wee hours of the morning. Buy this game and don't bother looking back.