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so please point me to titles which play just as Jagged Alliance or X-Com, but use modern graphics.
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Well, the first title is Ufo: Aftermath. It was supposed to be the spiritual successor of Xcom but failed more than miserably. I didn't bother trying the other games of that franchise.
I think many titles tried to revive the Xcom genre but failed mainly because they bumped their heads too hard at several things. One of those things is limit the recruitment pool. That got to be the highest problem, since limiting the recruitment pool make it so you either have to make things way too easy so your soldiers survive (you can do very little with no soldiers...), or make it too high and have the soldiers die anyways but without a way to replace them. That's also the biggest problem in UFO: Aftermath... You simply cannot afford to lose a single soldier because they level up and once you face advanced enemies you can't simply send fresh recruits and expect them to do the same job than your dead veteran.
Another big problem is trying to add things like realistic gravity simulators, mainly for when you need to throw grenades around or jump down a few levels with a squaddie. in Xcom it was simply: simply target a square and the game tell you if you can do it. And if you can't, you can simply hold the grenade indefinitely until you finally throw it, like a real life grenade. That's simple, and that's the way it should be. I've seen demos of games which tried to be yet another Xcom successor with stupidly complicated grenade throwing patterns. In short, you throw something and it bounce off anything... And you don't have an unlimited guess shadow to help you out. You can guess how "fun" it gets when you need to throw a grenade several stories down for a critical life or death shot...
And of course, there is also the obvious problem of graphics don't make a game. Some genre don't benefit much from modern graphics, if at all. An isometric game which rely heavily on strategy only need a display which is efficient, not jaw dropping. Adding modern graphics would simply not make a game as far as the strategy genre is concerned, and that alone put off a lot of gamers which simply can't play something without jaw dropping graphics...