Considering that EA are the largest games developer on Earth, you'd think they'd have the resources to start a new engine from scratch... like what Relic did for CoH. The SAGE engine is so very limited, it probably creates 10 times less the graphical splendor of CoH yet the games that use it run 10 times worse, its mind boggling how that's even possible. The fact that, in CoH (nearly 3 years old) you can zoom in to see the faces on your soldiers, and in RA3 (3 months old) you can zoom in just far enough to tell your conscripts don't have faces, shows how far EA are behind in the Graphics race... sometimes I think they've just given up on graphics, they'd rather mass produce a million games using the same crappy engine rather than 1 game with a brillant up-to-the-standard-of-today engine.
That said... they at least got the intro music right
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQ7hXMLxGcRA3 in the Essence Engine should be our next Project ;D