I started playing the game for the first time few days ago as I decided to play through the campaign(s) for my twitch stream (same name).
in the first session, just under 5 hours, I reached about the middle of the single player campaign. About 13 or so missions. My experience with the game was mostly positive up to that point. The game though didn't have an art style I liked, was good looking enough and had overall good presentation.
Up to that point there were two things only, that I didn't like. The first was the complete lack of a pause function out of pressing Esc to check the menus. Not just no pause to give orders which would probably help a lot with this game, but no pause in general where you can at least check the map or something.
The second thing was the complete lack of cutscenes. I realize this isn't the type of game to have the budget of previous Westwood games, but it still feels like they are missing to me.
So, some negative things, but overall a good semi-classic style RTS.
Then the BS started. The game starting every mission with you having close to zero base buildings and the enemy having several ready to go bases and armies, with super weapons ready to go in a couple of minutes. Yes a couple.
I played 2-3 more missions like this till I just couldn't take it. In my second stream night of this game after less than 2 hours I just gave up in anger. The amount of BS was too much.
I am not new in RTS, I played them since ever and even played 100s of hours multiplayer Generals/Zero Hour (by Westwood).
The single player campaign sucks. The missions are basically multiplayer skirmishes, greatly outnumbered and out developed where you get rushed with several armies in 3-4 minutes. It just isn't any fun for me.
I give it 3 stars out of 5 and I think I am very kind in doing so.
I can tolerate lack of features and polish, but this BS campaign is just too much for me.