In the meantime, here's what I learned from my first 10 hours or so with XCOM 2. Guess I'll have to wait a month to see what happens next. It took me a bit to sort out what I needed to accomplish on the strategic level, but I was on the verge of a major breakthrough when I got a message informing me that I had completed the preview build.
In that time, I managed to build multiple team members up to around Level 7 while making contact with various resistance cells, all the time watching nervously as the enemy Avatar Project ticked toward completion. I wound up playing about 10 hours anyway. My best and worst Christmas gift this holiday season was a preview build of XCOM 2 - best because it immediately got its hooks in me, and worst because it was an incomplete build and I knew I shouldn't get too invested ahead of the review.
