RTW should not beat out HL2. Apart from a few minor glitches the game is thoroughly polished and very groundbreaking in that genre. I've halted my play on RTW because of the massive amounts of problems with it and in need of an urgent, yet to be released, uber-patch. Sure sure, I played through 3.5 campaigns and I had fun doing that - but it didn't overwhelm me with perfection like HL2 did - it frustrated me into buying other games.

Perhaps once the MP issues and other bugs and grouping flaws are fixed to me the game is way to frusterating to put much effort into just trying to control my troops with ease.

here's hoping...