A very good RTS that is bogged down with some annoying issues.
First the bad.
1-The camera. God the game camera is horrible. It at its farthest state still feels like i am looking at my troops through a microscope. And considering how big some of the more fun units are, they will hog your screen. The cameras zoom is very annoying as well as the fact it is slow. Also it is controlled by the w,a,s,d keys. This is not bad but the hot keys could have been placed in the vicinity of the wasd, so it would at least make some sense for it being there.
2-Hot keys. This is short but the default hot keys are placed in positions that do not take advantage of the camera movement keys being at wasd.
And lastly
3-Stupid AI, and a lack of standard RTS functionality. The ai has some problems and sometimes will sit still while you blast them to bits or worse, the other way around. You units will sometimes refuse to take your orders out bad programming, and sometimes they simply will invert what you said. This is a big function of rts's. If the ai is stupid, you will find yourself getting angry and loading and saving.
the good
1-3 interesting factions with pretty diverse units. The hierarchy have giant walker that spawn there units on the field as well as deal a lot of damage. If the walker dies, so does some of your unit production. The Novus control like standard rts characters with a set base and unit production. They have to have constant power to their building though , and that makes there generators key targets. The third faction was once gods and have the power of energy.
2- Fun Multiplayer. The multiplayer has a lot of fun modes as well as it contains some awesome moments. There is not rock paper scissors relation so fights can be pretty fun. Also GFWL is free so that con is taken out of the equation.
3-GFWL improvements. Because it is free now you can play online for free as well as unlock achievements. The home key activates a ui to talk to friends and compare games. It is not the best but it is getting better.
4- Fun game play. The game is fun with a good amount of variety. Not as much as WC 3, but still it contains a good amount of missions.
end-The game did not catch on like wild fire because of some bugs , a camera who didn't want to be a team player, and GFWL once costing money. For 10 dollars on amazon it is easily a good buy and worth checking out.
8-10