Not for newbies

Never having played X-Com or any similar games, I found this game to have much too steep a learning curve- after an extremely perfunctory here-are-the-controls tutorial, you get dumped into a large, nonlinear mission, with a full complement of units. Personally, I found this utterly overwhelming, and I gave up after a few futile stabs at playing the mission. Some starter missions to teach gameplay and strategy would probably have helped here (e.g. the standard one-new-unit-per-mission RTS progression).

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a fantastic game for those already familiar with the gameplay.