Does the ai always end up like this in late game

[Monk]

The AI always has, and always will create empires. I used to turn fog of war off in RTW to watch the selucids carve a bloody empire, or be taken out. You can watch the progress, generally one faction in each area wins. The idea is to give the player something to fight at the end of the game, but to lose to the player. So the player has fun, and plays again! And buys the next product etc

There was some command that let you skip forward in MTW and let the AI take control of your faction. If you turned off fog of war it was like watching one of those super fast camera shots of a high-way, watching empires rise and fall, kingdoms emerge, die out, grow and split in civil war. It was really cool. I think M2TW has a command like that too, but whatever faction you choose doesnt get taken over by the AI.