1st let me say that I think Goldhawk did a wonderful job and as a person who has played the original X-Com when it came out and plenty times after, this is a great remake and likeness. I love the little things added to Xenonauts like troops and aliens becoming suppressed and the geoscape battles are more fun than on X-Com. But on that note comes the only minor complaint that I have so far... I started off playing Veteran difficulty and I always play Ironman mode btw. That definitely proved too hard for me and I consider myself pretty good at tactical games. The problem wasn't with the ground battles which were very challenging at times, but with the geoscape which has proven to be very hard to me. So I then switched to normal mode and I am still finding it very difficult to keep countries happy and am always losing funds over time. It seems to me that there is too much alien activity going on all the time which lowers your relationship with countries. And seemingly no matter how good I do and how many interceptors I have I still can't keep up.
Wish there was a little more balance and maybe some toning back on country relations making it a little more forgiving as far as the goescape is concerned....
just my 2 cents - but great game!