A movie tie in game has no right being this good.
Proper tactical pause, manpower, ammo, and fuel supply, (vehicles need crew, turrets need manning, guns require ammo, vehicles require gas, etc.) directional armor, vehicle and squad components/gear with locational damage, skills, outfitting, the list goes on. It's a very in-depth game.
There's even things like terrain and line of sight. Smoke grenades will obscure vision, hills will protect you from fire, trees are cover, stuff like that. Hide a sniper in a bush and he's actually harder to spot as a result.
It's like a mix between a classic RTS and XCOM elements. You will be outfitting squads, gaining them experience and skills, giving them new gear and weapons, and doing your best to protect them. They're named, they actually mean something. They're not just "Faceless G.I. 100$" that you spam. It's Big Bob and his brothers, you get personal with your men. You'll balance supply use day by day on an overmap as you move around, buying supplies, recruiting people, talking to folks in towns, scavenging gear and vehicles. Story for an RTS is good, its decisions matter, too.
I get some hints of XCOM and RPGs here despite it being an RTS campaign. You have dialogue options and can choose who lives and dies by your actions, etc. Your choices will affect the rest of the game. For instance, in mission 1, you can choose to destroy a base or not, that will matter, even choosing to destroy it but taking too long will also matter. "Looks like they followed us here, some must have escaped before the base went off." Found a preacher held down in a church who was an ex navy seal, recruited him. No objective for it, no markers, easy to miss. He was just on the map.
You get rewarded for exploring, doing side objectives. Met a crotchety old man who wanted nothing to do with us, happened to save his sister, and he warmed up to us, giving us an old stryker. Real fun to have this giant mad max convoy of semis towing equipment, vans hauling mortars, and all kinds of oddball relics you managed to find, like a rusted old M113 APC. Just all around a very good RTS that feels like it's a little something more than just an RTS.
