when i first saw gamespot's review of this game i was interested in this game. It sounded and looked like a great rts. And it does. The live cut scenes i thought were pretty cool too so i went and got this game and started playing the campaign. The story wasn't too intriguing for me since these days you can almost predict the endings of these "bad guys against good guys" stories and some of the live cut scenes had some bad acting and dialogue. but the game looked great and played good. Some of the missions though were just cake walks after i found out that u could just select ur troops, attack move to the location and watch and as u got to the place u would find urself doing it 4 or 5 more times with the same bunch of guys slowly dwindling but making it through. Anyway the skirmishes and multiplayers are fun like most games. i like the new prisoners of war thing how it encourages for use of infantry the whole way through -units that are wounded and not dead can be captured by infantry and held prisoner and also generate money aswell as a bounty for capturing them. these prisoners can be freed to reveal parts on the map too . Also how u can hold banks and extract oil from oil deposits to get money, the only resource in the game, is quite creative. u can even hole up the building, or go on top of them, with antitanks and watch them shred the incoming force and watch all the explosions and thick smoke with the loud sounds of gunfire and booms of tanks. but a lot of it seemed like a race to build up tanks and get the sources of money. Its more realistic than a lot of other real times out there. this game is well put together apart from some dodgy pathfinding and the some other minor problems. the game is pretty stable and also the patch can fix a few problems up. the game sounds, though i did find the number of lines each unit had was limited , looks and plays not bad rand should last u a while even though the campaign is short. To some it may be the best rts ever but not for me. i , honestly, am not likely to buy the expansion. this is a good game nonetheless.
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