Faithful to the original in all ways, including difficulty

WARNING - under OS X 10.11 El Capitan, always crashes.

The game mechanics are nearly identical to the original but the graphics are decades ahead of it. I could never finish the original without cheating (in those days I hacked the binary save files to give me unlimited money - in this game if you do a web search online you will find a built-in way to make your soldiers extremely strong but even with that cheat the game is still very tough.) Im very, very impressed with the high quality graphical interface. The slo-mo cam is innovative and intense, if overused in duration. But the main reason this game is great is the original game design was so great. In fact I still pine for the original game. This revision feels too console-y. The aleins take too long to take their turns. And the original somehow scared me much more often with the surprise alien appearances. But I dont regret this purchase at all. Now that I finished it with cheating, Im going to try again with less cheating. Thanks to Sid Meier for making a game that has impacted my life.

Blue Pumpkin about XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Edition, v1.2.2