Game play highlights combination of global strategy and tactical missions new strategic game with resources management and terraforming possible in later stage of the game advanced tactical portion of the game with possibility to enter buildings, different heights, destructible environment, thermo visions and more even stronger RPG elements, all your subjects are known by name, complex training system, special equipment and more completely new story building on the events from UFO: Aftershock large number of new technologies, weapons and equipment to develop completely new environments on a planet different from Earth more complex diplomacy option affecting the story aliens, drons and robots in your team new enemies and new alien races with variable weapons and battle tactics