The Gold Edition is fine. It's all one install (and then you have to copy over the Gold Edition .exe with the 2.01 patch, which happens to be an updated .exe). It's a bargain these days - £7.99 on Play.com, for an entire two games (not to mention the fun you can get playing the mods, such as XL, Tyberius and BKB's Supermod - oh and Britannia Divided and the Ancient Total War saga). It's definitely well worth it. However, it's generally a PC-DVD rom - that's the only problem I can forsee since as not everyone has a DVD drive on their computer. If you have to buy a CD version, then it's still worth getting VI.