Universe at War hands on

So far playing through the first five missions of the new RTS for the xbox 360. So far I am liking how the controls are used in this game they are mapped very well so its not to tough for me to move from unit to unit and be able to move them with ease. The trigger and the bumpers are used mainly for your basic functions. All you do is push it an either a set of list or a map pulls up for you to use. Its prolly the first game for the console RTS that I can recommend for people who enjoy RTS stuff. While of course a keyboard and mouse is still the best, they do a great job of paving the way for future games to use the controller well. They also did a cool function for the selecting of units you can hold down A and a paintbrush sort of method is used to select mass unints and you can use the D-Pad to select them individually, which is a plus. While visuals are not the best the game still looks good, with some minor slow-down when multiple enemies or explosions occur. Overall without spoiling whats going on to much, you play as the the Novus who is battling against the Heirarchy who are on earth trying to exsponge its resources. Thus doing so an ancient race known as the musari will arise and help as well in the fight. There is no human campaign since they join with the other factions to fight them. Overall im enjoying the game and expect a full final review for this in the next week or so.