Hm, I was quite excited reading your posts about this latest attempt at recreating UFO.
However after reading the review on
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/ufoext...ials/index.html it seems I'm better off waiting for some other company to give it a shot.
The AI looks promising and challenging, but in particular the stability issues, extremely slow speed and some strange choices that hinder gameplay seem to be too much of a drawback.
In addition to that, there seems to be a bit too much repetition in scenery as well as gameplay (ok, that last comment goes for the original UFO game as well, but they were pioneers; I expect any company following in their footsteps to add some new elements).
Judging by the player comments though there seem to be already some great fan-made modifications out there for UFO: Extraterrestrials so that may still make the game worth playing, in fact some people seem downright ecstatic about those mods.