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[Scoops Novel]

I'm familiar with a few examples - heroes and generals, natural selection 2- but from my limited experience the first was unsatisfying and the latter is intimidating at first. Both suffer from limited maps, and not giving the foot-soldiers enough to care about when it comes to (dis)obeying the chain of command, establishing a personal role or interesting tactics.

The most promising thing approaching this I've seen recently is Due Process, which gives the team a minute to plan on (thus far) small random maps, with a dwindling pool of equipment in each round of a match. Nevertheless, there's no all seeing, advising eye in the game proper.

I'd much appreciate a game that ran with the idea for a campaign or RPG.

[Orb]

Has neither a campaign or RPG, but Allegience might be worth a look. It's a free old game in the style of dogfighting with spaceships.

[Frumple]

'bout the only RTS/FPS hybrid I've personally played and enjoyed were the battlezone games back during the N64 era. It's vaguely arguable how FPS-y they are but whatev'. They're also, obviously enough, kinda' old at this point.

I'm sure there's other ones out there, somewhere, but I haven't played any. Not terribly surprising considering if you're not running multiplayer it's a sincere pain in the hindquarters to make a UI et al that lets you do the RTS thing from a FPS or third-person perspective, especially without it being frustratingly clumsy.

E: Oh, and Sacrifice. More third-person-y but whatever, it was ballin'.

[Sonlirain]

Battlezone 1 and 2.
Savage 1 and 2.

http://www.savage2.com/en/main.php

[PrimusRibbus]

Battlezone 1 and 2.
Savage 1 and 2.

http://www.savage2.com/en/main.php

Savage 2 in particular was freaking amazing during its heyday. A shame the developer dropped it like it's hot so they could make yet-another-MOBA.

[Sonlirain]

Savage 2 in particular was freaking amazing during its heyday. A shame the developer dropped it like it's hot so they could make yet-another-MOBA.

A moba that's pretty much identical to DotA... but luckily for them they managed to push it out before DotA2 became a thing and the only real competition they had at the time was LoL and the classic DotA.
Aaand the MOBA marker is lousy with DotA clones that barely even add anything.

[Robsoie]

There was Urban Assault, you mass produced tons of tanks and aircraft and could take direct control of them to try to conquer sectors on a map while an AI (never played in MP) was doing the same.