It's got great theme with strong game mechanics

The human player(s) meanwhile must equip their team with a nice selection of weapons and gear and send them off to achieve a mission-specific goal

To me that equates to something I enjoy playing

He cannot play as the enemy who is trying to with the game for the aliens

Even if there was a game mechanic that used up the entire team's adrenaline in order to summon in reinforcements, then a once dead player could be replaced with at least a fresh unit who would be stuck struggling to catch up to the rest of the squad, but we'd have everyone still involved

And had no flash on them that needed to be trimmed, etc, but they were bent