The expansion pack for the best RTS on the computer seems to add quite a bit of neat little extra to the game. This next chapter in the franchise adds two new armies, new tech trees, two new campaigns, and a bunch of graphical and gameplay enhancements.

This time around you can play from both the German and British perspectives. The game adds a full dynamic weather system that actually impacts the way you play the game. Rain can mud up an area, making it impassable for some vehicles. There's another level, I was told, where you can only see enemy troop movements by lightning flashes. What a cool idea. You can also set the time of death and type of weather for all multiplayer games.

The British army of the game plays as a very defensive based army. They have a very unique feel and look to them. They react faster than any other infantry in the game. The can build trenches, allowing them to create cover where there wasn't cover before. They can set up mortars, have sniper squads, light machine gun squads, rifle grenade squads and Tommy gun squads, which the developers called the Swiss Army knife of destruction for the British.

On the German side of things you have the Panzer Elite, hard hitting small units. The German units can garrison a squad inside a vehicle (and when they do you can actually see the units getting into the vehicle) and turn all of their armor into mobile weapon platforms.

To balance out the German's heavy use of armored vehicles, the British have self-propelled artillery units. They also get these really neat looking glider units (commandos and tanks) that are dropped in with giant gliders. They showed off a few of those drops and it's pretty spectacular, the engine-less planes just drift into the area you call them too, totally leveling any buildings in their path and dumping out the units.

From what I saw of the game it looks like an expansion that will fully live up to the expectations set by the original title.