The level balance is a night mare. Not a skill issue, some just require you to do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cheese strats out of the gate just to re roll RNG 20 times to get a start. Truely the worst campaign map design i have ever played in 10000 games.

First things first: I've paid for the game. With that out of the way, time for a review.
I like this game a lot, though it is very difficult. It took me time to realise that the main skills required is crisis management and being level headed - only after these two there's economy management and strategy. Understanding this is important for two reasons: Without this realisation, the default approach will make you fail a lot and get frustrated. Secondly, this game is not for people who can't mange a crisis or easily get upset.
The game is fun, graphics are old, but they've aged much better than a lot of other 3d games of its time. There's quite some humour as well, so the game will make you smile too :) There are some hiccups when it comes to interface, but nothing making your life harder.
There's this "bug" where game creators assumed 60 fps is going to be the absolute maximum framerate for the lifetime of the game and some tick events are based on fps and not time flow, so you have to manually set a max framerate for this game to 60, otherwise your buildings take longer to build and the game gets harder (don't go below 60, it doesn't make the game easier ;) )

I didn't finish the game yet, but I'm looking forward to it and then there are 3 DLCs that I will gladly play. That said, I recommend this game with the single caveat I've mentioned at the beginning of this review.