The article is riddled with incorrect statements which show that the author was too induldged in his preconceived notion that WW2 games are noodled to death to bother to check them out.

Even the legendary Call of Duty franchise...
- comparing a real time tactical guy to a first person shooter? Shows where the author is coming from. Does STRATEGY Informer have no strategy/tactical gamers in its ranks?

Being an RTS, Theatre of War doesn’t allow for any up-close and personal encounters...
- this would be true of about every RTS game out there, but NOT with Theatre of War: TOW actually has a feature which allows you to see the action from eye level of ANY soldier by hitting the Enter key

The first thing I noticed was how long the loads times were for the various campaign missions or battles...
- DOH! This is a beta build with debug code in it! You don't mention this stuff in PREviews

Also while ducking it out, I found the camera would not lock itself to the lowest position possible...
- If he was ducking it out a bit more he would have found the options panel which allows to adjust minium and maximum camera heights down to shoestring level

audio of Theatre of War surprisingly impressed me
vs.
audio Theatre of War is very generic

Which is it? Given the previous points and the author's obvious favor for FPS games and not tactical games, I bet he forgot to adjust sound the "Desktop speakers" in the option panel, and was only hearing one of the four channels, since the default in the beta (unfortunately) was set to "Surround sound". (previewers were notified of this) The sounds in TOW are REALLY good.

I guess it's clear that this is disappointing. One would think that a page calling itself Strategy Informer would have at least one person actually interested in the genre and willing to spend the time to do it justice. And one that would know what differentiates a preview from a review.

Martin
Battlefront.com