move away from the over all cartoonish style in TW games
Not really sure what you mean by this. Compared to games like Warcraft I never viewed TW games as Cartoonish. I mean they are probably not going to be crysis graphics in battles, but then again they are probably not going to turn the campaign map into some overly done design like google earth.

I always viewed TW games as very realistic, espically when I consider the other games out there.

Though maybe that's just me.