As for the BFII talk, I agree, the second game was much easier than the first, I also liked the maps better on the first as well. However, the 2nd game also felt a bit more immersive, with enemies and friendlies everywhere while in the first one it took going to a command post to see a lot of enemies. Personally, I like both games a lot and I play both often since they're pretty unique. I also liked the newly released BF: Elite Squadron for PSP, my friend has it and I play it all the time. The only thing I don't like about it is the fact you have to lock on to hit an enemy, but when you can fly into both ground and space in the same battle, little things like that don't matter that much anymore, LOL.
As for EAW, LOVED that game, I'm a pretty die-hard strategizer, I can play chess and checkers all day, LOL, and EAW truly gave me a good SW/Strategy combination.
Oh, and to CBC, Republic Commando is very good, it has both strategy and just all out action depending on how you want to play-the game has room for both. I kind of hated the ending though, LOL, I'm not going to spoil anything though.