Originally Posted by Capt. Huggy Face 
and even Xcom a bit, though it was dumbed down quite a lot from he original.
As you may probably know, the solution is Xenonauts. To me both great games. Different games. XCOM:EU is ground combat fun, Xenonauts has (will have) all the Geoscape thing.
BTW I don't see a reason why the limited the view to 4 angles in XCOM:EU. Wish it was free.