In the newsgroups and on some game magazine I read reviews that criticize the game. The bottom line of these people is that the game, compared to the predecessor 'Battlezone' is cheesy.  Well, I don't know about Battlezone I  becuase I never played it. This game though, is still very good.  It's  based on a very cool idea: you are a soldier and you can drive anything,  from powerful war machines to buidlings (turrets and factories and such).  You don't actually drive a factory: you just get in and configure it the  way you want. You also can get in a turret (and it's damn fun to blow a bug  up with one of those big plasma turrets! ). If you built it (and you have  to) you can get into the 'Relay station' which is a building that uplinks  to a satellite and gives you a satellite view of the action and lets you  play the game in a traditional (almost) RTS fashion.  The game is sci-fi  and definetly arcade-ish. Do not expect a sim or the ultimate RTS game from  it. It's still a very cool idea to allow you to switch from an RTS view to  a first person view: you send your troops to fight and then you get in your  tank and go with them to fight and suffer the consequences of your  strategical mistakes or enjoy blow enemies up in person!  I reccomend it  to any action or RTS player: it's a game to try out!