Easily my favourite XCOM game for the following reasons:
+Named characters with background stories and all that goof stuff instead of self created ones
+Alien teammates
+Enjoyable police task force story in the XCOM world post Advent
+Small seperate encounters instead of a gigantic map
+Interesting alien factions
+It's neither too short, nor too long

-The game isn't very stable, it crashed at least once every hour (only game to do that for me ever) even without any mods.
-Some maps do repeat and I found those to be the least fun ones of the bunch
-Most weapons are upgradable / have some epic variant, but somehow that doesn't apply to Zephyrs fist weapons. So even though she was my favourite character her damage was really low in comparison in the endgame. I fixed that with a mod but I shouldn't really have to.

Easily my favourite XCOM game for the following reasons: +Named characters with background stories and all that goof stuff instead of self created ones +Alien teammates +Enjoyable police task force story in the XCOM world post Advent +Small seperate encounters instead of a gigantic map +Interesting alien factions +It's neither too short, nor too long -The game isn't very stable, it crashed at least once every hour (only game to do that for me ever) even without any mods. -Some maps do repeat and I found those to be the least fun ones of the bunch -Most weapons are upgradable / have some epic variant, but somehow that doesn't apply to Zephyrs fist weapons. So even though she was my favourite character her damage was really low in comparison in the endgame. I fixed that with a mod but I shouldn't really have to.