Halo Wars (Xbox 360, 2009)

The biggest disappointment about this game is its length. 15 years ago Blizzard came up with Warcraft. There were 2 campaigns - Humans and Orcs. 10 years ago - Starcraft, 3 campaigns. 5 years ago - Warcraft 3 with 4 campaigns. This year 2009 Microsoft released Halo Wars with whooping 1 (one) campaign of about a dozen missions!
What's up with that?! You create unfinished, unpolished, tiny game, throw it at the wall and expect people to shell out $60 for it because it is related to legendary franchise?! I paid $25 at a company store, and still feel like I overpaid.

Now to gory details
Pros:
+ Awesome cinematics.
+ Great graphics. But come on, it is 2009, you expect great graphics of an RTS.
+ Good controls. Work pretty well for a console. I was kinda missing ability to select all units of a given type, but it's OK.
+ You don't need to hunt for resources that quickly deplete.
(do you see anything above that says $60?)

Cons:
- Lack of thought-through design you see in Blizzard games. Forget the BS about paper, rock, scissors, most of the units there remain unused. You only build a couple of most efficient unit types unless you want to drag the game forever.
- You are only able to build structures in the waffle, provided by the base. Seems like implementation-driven design, MS found it easier to do so. Forget about surrounding your base with custom ring of fortifications.
- There is no dynamics of the unit types you can build. You can build them all from early levels up, but, I reiterate, you simply don't care.
- super-short. Half length of the shortest RTS I've ever played.