XCOM Chimera Squad tries some new ideas but I think most fail. While the breaching of rooms seems cool in the beginning I feel that it actually interrupts the game's pace. They also should have rather expanded unit management back to the old iconic original XCom: UFO Defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown and it feels way too much like an arcade instead of a tactical strategy game with strong RPG elements.
There's no base building and I find the UI unergonomic.
So it's really not that good. I fell even more disappointed now. Sounds a bit harsh but the great XCOM concept hasn't been improved here.
What's even worse: The game is crashing hard. I could barely play a mission straight without having a nasty system crash that forced me to verify my harddrive's file integrity. So that's a no go, especially for such an old game that they had enough time to work on.
And what's even worse than worse: Steam didn't even let me refund the game altough I only had plaed it for something like 80 minutes. But I had XCOM Chimera squad more than 14 days in my library.
Therefore I can't recommend this title.
Don't spend money and time on crap!

Game crashes during important plot points.

as an avid fan of the 2 previous X-COM games, i decided to finally pick this up as it was on something like a 75% discount. I have not made it very far as the whole game is just annoying so much of the time. one of the things i liked to do in previous games was make soldiers based on my irl friends and inform them about how their charatcter was doing. instead we have comic book style still image dialouge boxes of lackluster characters wasting my time with unnecessary dialouge and robbing me of the customization in X-COM 2. gone are the world wide stakes, the stealth mechanics, i hate the change of your team taking its turn and instead individual soldiers taking turns. there was basically nothing about this that was not a downgrade from X-COM 2, and even X-COM Enemy Unknown.