Funnily enough, I liked DoW2 better. The original came out when the market was so oversaturated with RTSs and apart from having the 40k skin it brought nothing new to the table gameplay wise.
No wonder the new Superman is so popular, they just followed the Marvel formula. Even have the token evil imaginary country speaking Croatian. Come on guys what do you have against Croats...
Using the free time I have to get back to reading. I started with The Silmarillion, been a long while since I read it. May read the Hobit and LotR again afterwards.
He's kind of taking pleasure in screwing over the system and getting something for free (he has the money to pay for it himself), so I would imagine the payback part would spoil it.