Deadline

Deadline is a tactical game with anti-terrorist themes and combined
strategic planning / real-time action. It uses a third-person over-the top
perspective much like the original X-COM, except in real-time.

The game pits you against everything from fanatical cultists (some of whom
you’re supposed to save from themselves), drug dealers, escaped prisoners, and
even a disgruntled MIT professor with a high powered rifle. But terrorists
will be your primary opponents in the later missions.

Your goal is to rescue the hostages and neutralize the bad guys, but you’re
also suppose to avoid blood and death on all sides. This means that you’re not
allowed to drown your enemies in their own blood, and the majority of them
must be captured alive for you to successfully complete the mission.

Deadline also allows you to communicate with the terrorists (to a limited
extent) through use of a vid-phone and negotiation mode. You can also dedicate
time to research in order to get more information about the terrorists,
hostages, location, etc. Each mission has an extensive history. But as the
name of the game suggests there’s a time limit and if you spend too much time
twiddling your thumbs the hostages get executed and you’re fired.