Warhammer Left 4 Dead. I played during a free weekend with a friend and voice comms. You run around with a team of 4 with mechanics are so similar, it could be a total conversion mod of L4D. The game is largely melee focused. Ranged weapons need 1-2 to kill regular enemies, while you could kill 1-3 enemies with each melee swing. The game can be a lot of fun for a group of friends who already enjoy L4D2 and want to switch things up a bit.

Stability is still a problem. I experienced crashes with an error message 3 times while playing, twice while loading the same map. My rig (i7-4790k/TitanX/32GBddr3/250GBssd) is not overclocked, and has very good airflow with the current drivers. Loading screens also take very long (30-54s) off my SSD. My friend also experienced the same load times.

tl;dr: Fun L4D mechanics, poor stability and optimization.

This game has so many negative reviews and a bad rap. I I liked the game enough to finish it.

First, this is NOT a turn-based strategy game the XCOM franchise is known for. Much of the negative reviews are from those who were misinformed about the genre. This game is a somewhat unremarkable squad shooter from a third person perspective.

Get this game if you are fascinated with the storyline of the XCOM universe. I enjoyed the progression enough to finish the game. Exploring and listening to the audio diaries is amusing and adds to the story. Much of the missions are unfortunately generic i.e. kill all enemies on the map. Main character is also deliberately unlikeable (cannot say more without story spoilers). Units you recruit are generic and easy to level up with automated side missions. You'll very quickly have a roster of forgettable squadmates you can choose from. The gameplay is rather easy overall, with occasional difficulty spikes when you aren’t doing exactly what the game expects you to.

Buy the game if you enjoy playing generic squad shooters and like the XCOM setting and more backstory. But don’t expect much. It's worth buying as a bundle with XCOM:EU since you are getting this pennies. I’d give it a 6/10.

Could not finish the tutorial owing to a bug. Asked me to left-click to start artillery fire, but that didn't do anything. The camera was locked and the tutorial was scripted so I couldn't do anything until I finished that part.

Appears to be decent RTS where you control a small number of units which gain veterancy and can pick up upgrades. Beginning of the game appears heavily scripted, with not much in terms of interesting alternate ways of defeating the enemy. Expect the community maps and other maps further along allows more interesting strategy options.

Like the cover system so far, with little dots telling you where your troops will end up. Unfortunately, the send-to-cover system appears to be agnostic to the direction of incoming fire. Half your troops on the wrong side of cover quite often unless you keep looking for the one cover option where all are on the right side.