This thread finally convinced me to sign up.
Star Wars: Empire at War - poorly designed, space battles were meh and the ground campaign was terrible. Couldn't even get past the first Jedi mission after three tries. This has made me apprehensive of trying any future Petroglyph game again.
Supreme Commander Gold Edition - no matter what I do I just can't egt a game economy running, and I still get over-run. The storyline was shit, so I cut out the middle man and watched the crappy FMV's on youtube.
Civilization: Call to Power - I must state in Activision's rip-off defence that this game had a lot of innovations going for it that Sid Meier's offspring (at the time owned by Microprose) or any future Civ game hasn't bothered to consider. Instead of units that improve the landscape, you assign tax income to Public Works then plop down the improvements on the land. The game had technologies and units that went past 2020. You could build cities in space or in the ocean. Trade was easily visible and could be pirated. It showed things in 3-D for the first time. However the AI was shit, the game was ugly, and it was a massive resource hog for the time.
Civilization: Test of Time - lots of new graphic upgrades and two bland scenarios using the game's four-layered-maps does not justify the high price for a game I already owned. My first exercise in being burnt by game developers. It barely ran on my old HP Pavilion and won't install on newer machines.
Empire Earth 2 - I liked the original, I really did. The scenarios were well-crafted, units were balanced, and it was a decent game for its time. The expansion pack for the original, when Mad Doc Software started putting their hand into it, was a real fore-runner of things to come with a lack of originality, poor design, crappy graphics, and no innovation. EE2 was a spin-off that needed much more polishing. Leading to the worst game I have ever bought...
Empire Earth 3 - this game proves that there can be no benevolent God. Why this game, with graphics worse than Warcraft 3, requires a top-end machine to run it is beyond me. The unit reactions are crap, the game has been dumbed down significantly for 'people new to RTS', and it is a mission to just load the damn thing. The closest this game has to innovation is World Conquest mode, which I couldn't full get with its supposed add-on powers and Bantus in England and etc. First time I have ever written to a game company to tell them they suck.
Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath - the game is what you'd expect of an expansion pack from EA - some new units, shinier graphics, maybe a new map or two, and a short campaign. Otherwise it adds nothing. It's Global Conquest mode is shit (why they have that piece of shit instead of something much more simple - like the map they use in their storyline) and all it does is needlessly slow down one's PC with new graphics demands.