Offcourse there will be a demo. PC gamer Sweden et al visited CAs office around feb 04 and confirmed that there will be a demo and that it will be the games tutorial depicting the rise of Rome. And whoever thinks a demo will decrease the amount of games sold should take a marketing course or two.

So Rising Sun, good to hear that you are actually planning on buying the game now If they give you a demo with the strat map offcourse...