Heavy military brass hits you right at the menu screen, and it never really lets up. This is a PC RTS soundtrack that takes itself dead seriously, layering tense orchestral arrangements over every skirmish. "Ground Squad" sets the tone with this grinding, anxious buildup that makes you feel like you're already losing.
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"The Conspiracy" goes darker, almost thriller-film territory, while "Codename Ares" brings the kind of bombastic percussion that makes you click faster than your units can move. That constant underlying dread though. If you've ever stress-sweated through a WW2 real-time tactics game, this score is basically what your nervous system already sounded like.