There are also specialists that are often essential to a mission, including a medic, and and engineer who can lay mines and fix armor. Excellent, both creatures and terrain. Watching a battle in-game is like watching the battles in the movie. The movements, weapons effects, and sounds are all but identical to the film. And as a neat little touch, on cold planets you can actually see frost from the breath of your troopers.
Soldiers also kick up small clouds of dust crossing sandy areas.
Air strikes may also be called in, and are graphically spectacular. Weapons and ambient sounds are excellent. Most reviewers hated the music, but I usually kept the music volume down to far too notice either way. I had no complaints with voice effects. I feel that this game was good all around.