Very, very different, but not in a bad way. They improved much of the gameplay, in kind of the same way I feel XCOM:EU did for the original XCOM. You still have four agents, only they're more defined... you have a soldier, a hacker, an infiltrator and an engineer. Each has their own abilities and loadouts, but I believe everything is freely swappable so that you're not utterly pigeonholed into one playstyle for each.

Cover is now a thing, and just by clicking near concrete barriers or walls, your men will take cover, and combat is slow paced enough that you don't get too overwhelmed, but it's still exciting.

They still have research, which is nice, but I haven't done much of it since I've only played an hour or two. It still has the old overhead isometric, and the camera is set up like you're watching the action through a UAV. It rotates a little and wiggles back and forth, but it's not distracting and it's very, very responsive.

As far as I can tell, there is no between missions... you're just in a wide open city, and have free reign to cross it as you will. Missions crop up as you explore, you can hack ATMs for steady income and you have to be mindful of civilians and local law enforcement, in that you need to keep your weapons holstered when not in hiding.

It looks gorgeous. You feel like you're in Blade Runner from the moment you start, which is really cool. They put a lot of thought into the setting and design.

Now, it's still very early access... there's a ton of placeholder dialogue ("This is a girl. She probably does stuff. This is a placeholder. :D" was one I saw.) and the performance needs some smoothing, but you can already see that it's going to be fantastic once the wrinkles are worked out.

Now, the only thing is that you're no longer a major corporation.... you're kind of free to define who or what you are, but you're no longer a war criminal corporate director. You can actually be somewhat moral, though the game really doesn't care even if you go nuts and start murdering people. I haven't seen if you can get your agents addicted to performance drugs or not.

Also the cars are there, and they look fantastic... they're also completely unusable due to being ludicrously buggy, but when they get figured out, they'll be great.