I'm having the cut scenes stuttering too and is annoying. Game can still be played because I am running a fairly high end rig with a quad core cpu and ATI Radeon 5850 series. Yet - for this kind of stuttering to be occurring is almost inexcusable for a studio release of this magnitude - and I think the company owes a patch to clients who payed for this game - quickly.

I also suspect the framerate stuttering is not GPU related but has to do with the Windows/Direct X interface. Thank you microsoft for your proprietary BS.

@Gwarpup That is why I said "xcom like" and I realize they only talked about XCOM in the title. The video review would have been more comprehensive if it had also included this game - which IMO was part of the genre - albeit without the name.

Pretty much dead on except for one xcom like game never mentioned: UFO: Afterlight - which is a surprisingly good version of the genre with updated graphics - it came out a number of years ago - and still is playable today.