One of the unpleasent things I remember from playing GC1 was that UI very easily ovverun you even if you play on easiest level.
Later of cause I managed to to "adjust" and scored some vectories on hardes levels but this almost caused me at some point to drop the game (and for one of my friends did caused).
You see usualy when you set for "Very easy" you expect easy introductional walk crashing everything and everyone , testing buildings, tech and UI , it was not this way with GC1 , how about GC2 ?