It's
nice to see Kit Harrington get a starring
role, and even see David Harewood in a
feature film, but there's not a whole lot separating this film from anything else we have seen.
Since starring in The Lincoln Lawyer, McConaughey has shown a willingness to forego
nice - guy — or even pretty - guy —
roles in favor of characters whose sordid pasts show through his now sagging (yet still handsome)
features.
Both games
feature a «Commander» unit, a giant mecha, which uses atomic - level manufacturing to build an entire economy on far - off planets literally from the ground up, which is an interesting inversion on how mecha usually are used in games: the «Commander» is more or less the player character, and while their large mecha is by no means weak, it's a central unit because of its production capabilities, and not because of its arsenal, which as a mecha fan I always thought was a
nice way to work the idea of a «hero mecha» into an RTS, because you can relate to the Commander mecha's
role as, well, a Commander on the battlefield rather than as simply a powerful named «hero» unit as exist in most other RTSes.