I like the basic premise of this game, but the tatical combat is just so frustrating. As one quickly figures out, the optimal strategy is to slowly inch forward across the map, in order to only trigger one alien group at a time. This is very, very boring. Of course, you could charge ahead and 'take risks', but this usually just punishes you really hard by putting your soldiers out of position and giving a timing advantage to the enemy. This gets your soldiers killed, which loses the long game. So you either have a bit of fun and lose, or you bore yourself to death and win.