I have actually never heard of X-COM although I had a state of the art PC in the mid 90ies and played a lot. I have no clue how I missed it.

But I'm pretty much fascinated that a game like this one comes up again, in a time, where Games like "Sword and Sworcery" claim to bring the A-few-man-and-a-good-Idea Kind of Games back to a mass audience.