When you play ICP, there are various ways to win the media and hence get a lot of money for building up your forces. One of the best tricks is to build refugee camps. The more of those you build and the sooner you fill them, the happier the news reporters will be, as they will have good stories about humanitarian disasters. Another novelty is the total lack of Fog of War. There are several special vehicles in the game used primarily for detecting enemy positions.
War is under way.
MASA's graphics engine is pretty good. Zooming isn't that smooth, but scrolling works like a charm. Both the terrain and the 3D units look very realistic. The camera can be zoomed in until it seems you are standing in the middle of the battlefield, and zoomed out to above the clouds. Though I had this feeling that something was missing from it.