Brillient Game that sadly adds nothing new to the RTS universe.
The game starts off with an excellent cinamatic that looks rich and engaging showing the Alians and humans engaged in war, highly exciting.
The 3 factions are excellent and really fit into the whole story of the game and its style, where as the story is quite lame and there really isnt an explanation to how the Aliens found earth or anything of this nature, it just starts with earth under attack and leaves it there. If you play the game for a wile you find out all of the above anyway, but still it would have been better if the story was layed out for you from the start.
This game hosts Shirmish games and Online games, all of these are awesome to play and very enjoyable.
The graphics looks really dated when you zoom right in, but zoomed right out they look very impressive. As gamespot have already said the max zoom out isnt very good and at times you can hardly see anything. The keys are weird as well as you use the W,A,S,D keys to move the screen with playing (Unless you want to use the mouse but thats annoying) plus the scroll speed is really slow and annoying.
There are a handful of other things with the game that are annoying such as, holding the right mouse button to zoom about fast takes a second or 2 to kick in, if you left click and then do the above action sometimes it wont register and you will need to rehold the right mouse button so start to your delayed zooming about and you cant move the camera around like some game can, games like DoW and WiC.
Overall this game has some bad and annoying issues but bosts some amazing gameplay and online modes. This game is a must play not nessesarly a must buy.
I give this an 8/10 considering all the issues above.