And with automatic rally point, patrol paths and build orders that repeat, we take away the need to micromanage all of your factories. Our notification system dynamically lets you keep track of battles. Picture-in-picture, another tool, lets you interact with multiple planets across two windows. Says Mavor, "With area commands, for instance, you can automate production by queuing up multiple factories and resource structures with simple drags and clicks. The key to maintaining order is a suite of mechanics called advanced command and control. I checked in with Jon Mavor, the bright mind behind Planetary Annihilation (and lead programmer of Supreme Commander), to see just how the development team keeps battles manageable from one moment to the next. If this all sounds like a bit too much for you to handle, fear not: developer Uber Entertainment wants you to focus on the strategizing, not on the micromanagement. Planetary Annihilation is the next logical step in this sequence, and the game's economic structure, robot designs, and general themes echo the great Chris Taylor-designed games that preceded it.
You've already nuked an enemy commander, a super-unit that serves as your moral and mechanical center. You've already commanded forces from a distance so vast that your robots are represented by mere icons. If you've played Total Annihilation or Supreme Commander, however, you are already prepared for Planetary Annihilation's impressive scale. But whether you think of the planets as rather small or the robots as rather large, Planetary Annihilation is awesome, and awesomely overwhelming, at first glance. Mind you, these planets aren't the size of the Earth, or even our own moon, unless you imagine that even the game's smallest units are the size of entire cities, and production facilities are as expansive as Australia. And you spend a lot of time playing Planetary Annihilation with an entire planet stretched across the screen-a planet around which you can rotate and zoom the camera to your heart's content. Planetary Annihilation's presentation is its most immediately striking feature, if only because the planets that represent individual warzones look so stunning against the darkness of space. In an individual match, a solar system is at stake-and in this early-access game's newly introduced Galactic War mode, an entire galaxy hangs in the balance. You don't manage only a battle or two at a time instead, you command your robotic forces across all these planets at once, collecting resources and fending off the enemy's metal warriors as they vie for dominance. Instead, you set your strategic sights on a number of planets at once. This real-time strategy game doesn't have you waging war on a county, or a country, a continent, or even a single planet. It only takes a glimpse of Planetary Annihilation to understand that it thinks big.
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