Well, I have a brand new PC that can run the game on huge unit sizes and all graphics on ultra, so the game does look beautiful, no doubt about that. However, battles are so fast paced that the second I try to zoom in to watch some combat, half of the enemy army (or my army sometimes!) is in a rout and a lot of soldiers need to be given new commands. So I do that and zoom in again and 2 seconds later the battle is over, the field is littered with corpses and all is left to do is run down running enemies. This is the only time I really get to zoom in and appreciate the graphics.