It is just coincidence that I started playing StarCraft II Wings of Liberty again as I finally decided to get a copy of the expansion pack "Heart of the Swarm" so I can go and complete the trilogy as the next expansion pack, "Legacy of the Void" which will cover the story of Protoss  in this venerable video game. Now, I just watched a trailer called "Edge of Tomorrow" featuring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt as they battle against aliens.

If you watch the trailer, the scenes kinda remind you of cinematics of StarCraft, don't you agree? If you think it's a stretch, then I'll settle with Starship Troopers.

Edge of Tomorrow is the screen adaptation of  the Japanese novel "All You Need Is Kill" by Hirsoshi Sakurazaka. The screen adaptation was written by Dante Harper and was picked-up Warner Brothers for a 2014 release.

The story revolved around a recurring battle, when  Tom Cruise as Lt. Col. William "Bill" Cage gets killed early in a battle and gets thrown into a "Time Loop" where he teams up with Emily Blunt who plays the role of Special Forces Soldier Rita Vrataski fight together against an alien species and they die repeatedly and coming back to the same battle scene over  and over again until they develop the skills to defeat the aliens. As Vrataski says, "You are the weapon" and the movie says it all: "Live, Die, Repeat."

It is perhaps the strangest way to perfect skills to defeat an enemy when in reality you only live once.

One of the things that makes me curious in some sci-fi movies are the costumes used in battle. Lt. Cage wears an exoskeleton that gives him superhuman strength (in StarCraft, it's the Terran Marine Suit). Eerily, it somehow resembles the exoskeleton projects being done by DARPA with the private sector to equip U.S. Soldiers. But the movie goes further as the exoskeleton also bears heavy weapons including a rocket pod.

You'll see the helmet as still contemporary as it is based on the MICH helmet with some additional features such as ear and side protection though there is no Mandible protection. Other than those, other weaponry pure fiction, if based on the trailer.

It's something to look forward to by Geardos and Sci-Fi fanss, Edge of Tomorrow is expected to be released in June 2014 to compete against the summer blockbusters.