Halo Wars

A pretty solid RTS game with a strong rock-paper-scissors mechanic throughout. The campaign however fails to deliver a particularly strong story line, the cut scenes between and introductions to missions providing most of the story elements and whilst the game play was entertaining this was it's biggest letdown. In terms of game mechanics the game is streets ahead of most console RTS games, the closest game I can think of is probably Civilization Revolutions (which is turn based)

Certain story elements ret-con the elements introduced during the Halo 1 campaign and subsequent story elements. Elements such as the introduction of the Flood and Sentinels in the campaign whilst making the game more diverse as far as combat elements go don't quite fit with the ending and the information gained in the Halo story. However once you successfully ignore these matters the fun of the game comes to the fore. Though I will say by the final mission the numerous time limits on missions became a little dull since they push you towards using rush tactics with all units en-mass with no real tactics to use.