Brad kept talking about the variety in SC2 but DoW2 and even Frozen Throne had better mission variety. The actual missions were good & very enjoyable but nothing extraordinary when compared to modern RTS standards.The Hyperion bits were great though and that's where the campaign is great. They aren't as good with their storytelling but they design better missions. As for the games, people are going to call me crazy but I think Relic did a better job with the Dawn of War 2 single player than StarCraft 2 (minus the pre-rendered cinematics). Competing alien races with actual cultures (unlike the *nom nom nom* Xenomorphs). It's a little irritating when people just assume it's the other way around. The space marine bit was done first by the Aliens series but WarHammer greatly expanded on this. Also, WarCraft copied a lot of things from WarHammer. This isn't even a debate. StarCraft 2's fiction draws heavily from WarHammer 40K. It predates StarCraft by over a decade.