Quote Originally Posted by Longasc
... plus the 3D graphics are not really much better zoomed out...
Yes, that surprised me. After the screenshots and the TV series Time Commanders, I expected RTW to look much better than it does. Zoom in and it does look amazing. Maybe the issue is that to play the game well, you really don't want to be zooming in much. Zoomed out, I may even think STW is the best looking TW game for some reason. RTW looked a little washed out, in terms of colour, although maybe my settings are not the best. I guess people who edit TV series are better than gamers at teasing out nice visuals.

Interestingly, the new RTS "Dawn of War" has the same issue - zoom in and it is even prettier than RTW, but I end up playing zoomed out and don't really appreciate the nice graphics. I suspect such graphics are rather wasted on strategy games (as opposed to shooters and RPGs, where gamers only need to view the area around their character(s)).