Quote Originally Posted by easytarget View Post
It's not a successor. And take off the rose colored nostalgia glasses, I played the original when it came out, it had issues as well.
It had many issues but it also had -

1) Actually diverse maps, with diverse opponents. If you shoot down a UFO over Sahara, you're gonna get a mission in Sahara.

2) You could take up to 20 soldiers on a mission and losing a few meant acceptable casualties (like it should in a strategy game).

3) You could actually equip your soldiers from top to bottom, they actually could carry a grenade, rocket launcher and a stun thing at the same time, and the more weight you put on a soldier, less action points he has.

4) You had action points which allowed you to adapt to the situation. Do you need to take 3 shots or do you need to run really, really far.

5) You had a much more complex tech tree.

6) You had to balance the budget as you had to pay upkeep and salaries for everything.

7) You could produce stuff and sell it to other nations (corporations)

8) Weapons were diverse

I could go on and on, but the biggest problems I have is simplified control (move and shoot), small, bland and repetitive maps and lack of real options when equipping your soldiers.