Quote Originally Posted by lars573
Company of heroes. Best RTS out now. Expansion adding the British commonwealth forces and SS panzers (although they can't call them that) is coming soon.
I bought that to see what the fuss was about, because it gets such good reviews everywhere. I don't know... maybe it's just me, but I just couldn't get into it. I stopped at that first mission where you get some tanks to command.

It was too heavily scripted.... go here, set up a defensive line... oops, now you have to retreat to point X because there's an artillery bombardment. There is a little flexibility in how you can do things, but too much of the game just felt like it was on rails. Once you learn how to "game" each mission, you're done. I know the Warcraft/Starcraft franchise (and others) have made a big success with this in their single player campaigns, but it's really just an excuse for relatively weak strategic AI.

I guess I prefer more open-ended strategy games like the TW series, where even though it's somewhat locked-in by the starting positions and geography, not every game plays out the same. Or GalCiv2, which can be really different with each game.