The first, best modification is the improved gesture-click system. Instead of the arcane flip-of-the-wrist required to turn your troops in the original Myth, Myth II allows you to control facing by simply holding the mouse button and turning the mouse. As you turn, a small arrow appears to indicate facing. This is a much smoother implementation than we saw in Myth. Best of all, you can also direct your troops' facing with the arrow keys (which is handy for fine tuning a position and also for turning troops in a hurry).

In Myth II, you can also now control everything with the mouse - and the mouse alone. By moving the mouse into the corners of the screen, you can rotate the camera angle, for example. Also, formation buttons line the bottom of the screen, so that you can easily line up your troops as you see fit. Total mouse control is a dubious enhancement, however, as I often found myself rotating the view unintentionally when I lost track of the mouse cursor. Currently, there is no way to disable mouse view-rotation without also disabling mouse map-scrolling. Hopefully, Bungie will add that option for those of us who actually liked the Myth mouse-keyboard control method just fine.

By the time Myth II ships, Bungie will have fleshed out these mission objectives so that you always know what you're supposed to do in a given level.