CONSOLE RTS? Well...from the ones that I've played, I would have to say that Kane's Wrath and Red Alert 3 did a good job making the controls work. The problem is that it's still too slow. Meanwhile, Battle for Middle-Earth II was so-so, but there were a lot of issues with the controls and building capabilities that ended up getting panned out for the most part in Kane's Wrath and Red Alert 3.
Halo Wars is coming out soon, and I'm curious to check it out.
Endwar is alright, but the pathfinding is pretty iffy a lot of the times. The Theatre of War, however, was really badass when the game first came out, and the voice recognition is pretty spot on.
If you just want a good strategy game, I'd suggest trying Civilization Revolution. It's turn-based strategy, but it simplifies the Civilization formula to work very very very well on the console. You can still do SOME micro-managing, but you'll still get those 4 and 5 hour long games that keep things pretty tense in multiplayer.
Other than that, I would suggest trying some of the older RTS games on your PC. Rise of Nations was a really fun one, and I particularly enjoyed Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends the most. Hell, I'm sure that Starcraft would at least run on your computer...and while I'm not a fan of that game, there are apparently a shitload of people who would say otherwise. Personally, I prefer Dawn of War (and I'm THOROUGLY psyched about Dawn of War II coming this week).
So...yeah. That's about all I can suggest.
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