I think that SF is pretty much a lone game in sense of how it functions. True, it would be categorized under RTS but really, of all the RTSs I have played (a lot), none are quite like it. Never have I had to deal with troops panic and cry like babies on the field. Never did I have to actually bail out troops from vehicles stuck in the mud. Never have I ever needed to run my troops back to the dead/wounded to try and steal their weapons and then beam them away. Its awesome. Now with this game, the interface could be improved but to resemble a standard RTS like Red Alert??? I don't think it so.
A mini-map as described by GSX would be highly welcome for me. as would the assigning of units to custom groups. Things like what Steve quoted would be disastrous for CM.
Anyhoo. After seeing the rating given by the reviewer on IGN, I thought he would pick CM apart for major things but after reading the review, I was left scratchin my head thinking "this is it?... He have it a 6 because of that?"