recently brought this game and havent stopped playing. alot better graphics that the first version, more troops available and better building upgrades. build up an army of hundereds and thousand and fight your way across the lands of the world. test your battle tatics against the rebels, french,romans and many more. chose to fight during the day or night. will you charge the ememy with your heavy cavalry? or light up the night sky with your flamming arrows, before sending over 500 heavy infantry to slaughter your opponents, while also blocking the escape path with your cavalry. this game has changing seasons which makes you use your skills to plan which troops to send to battle. another good thing is the realism of the troops stamina and feelings. fighting in the desert is tough as you have to think do you use armoured troops whos stamina decreases rapidly and have light infantry as reinforcements or go all out with light armoured troops and archers, with cavalry reinforcements. basically what im saying is that you have to use your head and think more than all the other war games. but most of all this game is so fun and has a difficulty that can differ during the game. overall i'd give it 5 star and would recommend to ever historical war game fan.