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Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth
While the screenshots speak for themselves, if you talk to the developers of this Tolkien-based RTS, the buzzword that gushes from their lips is "emotionality". Try to control your nausea. The idea is to take the experience of combat, then try to convey to the player the internal journey the protagonists are experiencing. That is: "Hurrah! We've kicked some orcish posterior! Down to the Nazgul's Arms, I'm buying." Or, of course: "Erk. I appear to be the entree on a Mordor menu." "Way back in ...
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