I'd missed that there was gameplay footage. I watched a video (here if anyone else's interested) and I gotta say, I rather like what I see. I frigging LOVE the ballistic and called shot systems. I like that cover will be once again a physical barrier instead of a flat penalty on the to-hit dice roll. And I think their solution for displaying TUs is really elegant. I always prefered them to the new XCOM's actions, and I'm glad they found a way to make them accessible for this new era of sleek interafaces. Still a lot of stuff missing, but at least they've gotten the tactical combat basics down.

One thing that stuck me is how similar it looks to the new XCOMs, both the interface and graphics. If I didn't know better I'd say they're running on the same engine, but they can't have possibly licensed that, can they?