In a nutshell if your sitting on the fence...

[Swoosh So]

The single player is good the battles are good the game is buggy as HELL, and i dont just mean 1 or 2 bugs i mean dozens. If you have the patience to put up with constant failed automatches - clan campaigns that dont register your wins and ladders that dont register your wins, avatar skill trees that suddenly stop you from adding points - automatches that put you in siege games when you specifically asked for land - automatches that put you in sea battles when you specifically asked for land, automatches that go 2v2 then add a guy from the other team to your team then the game crashes - shogun 2 processes still running in windows when you exit the game properly so it wont even load back up if you exit then try to go back in - CTD for no reason when alt tabbing (more than any game ive ever seen) - game in 2011 with dx9 only on release and no aa (we will patch them in later *like all of the above and below?*) - magic powerup buildings that appear even when you have them deselected - gaining triats like dishonorable coward just for playing automatch which is needed to go up the ladder and the clan meta - mass nub clans of 600 people unbeatable due to clan campaign design... and many more i cannot be bothered to type.

If you can put up with all that its all good and one of the best battle engines since mtw1.. I can, can you?