I didn't see Patrick Swayze anywhere.

So last Friday I drove the Soviets out of Seattle, by which I mean I finished World in Conflict. I was fairly surprised at how much I enjoyed it, since I generally don't play real-time strategy games. I think WiC appealed to me because it was a scenario that hasn't been touched on too much in video games, and it harkened back to my memories of Red Dawn in the 80's. Now I'll be the first to tell you that I'm not the most patriotic person these days, but I still enjoy a good piece of "defend your homeland" fiction.
It may have helped that I was playing on Easy difficulty as well, as I didn't get the standard frustration I usually get with RTS games. World in Conflict also has no base building whatsoever, (unless you count automatically fortifying a control point if you have troops sitting in one, but that's just a progress bar). Mainly the gameplay goes: pick a drop zone and spend your "reinforcement points" to buy whatever combination of troops you think you'll need, click Deploy, and watch your units parachute in. Then go shoot some russians, nuke a town on American soil, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed it.
So now I've moved on to Killzone 2, which I only rented yesterday. So far, so good, although it seems to beat you over the head with the whole "we're at war, it's really fucking loud!", oh and there's lots of fucking swearing. Fuck.