First off, graphics, wonderful. I have a Raedon 9600 pro and I ran high detail and high res with no slow downs. AA caused it to choke of course, but AA always does that.

Interface, I thought could have been much better. I'd go into details but most of what I would want to say has been mentioned.

I will certainly buy Rome for the single player campaign, but I'm more into multiplayer. Just from the demo I don't think it will make for a good multiplayer game (given how little CA seems to care about that I'm not too hopeful). I will have to wait to see how the full game and full unit roster pans out, but this thread is called demo impressions afterall.

My main concern is that RTW is going to be an infantry-centric slug-fest. It's like those boring MTW multiplayer games where you get two wimps who take mostly infantry and run them into each other. What the hell is the fun in that? At least RTW has much larger maps, so aforementioned wimps can't take map flank positions and remove flanking options.

I'd have to echo that I don't think the demo did the hype justice. I was really excited loading up the demo and after playing it 10-12 times I'm much less so. Still, the strategic aspect of the game looks like great fun.

Oh and the war elephants were cool, if overpowered. I liked seeing them slice right through a Roman unit or three. Reminds me of the old swiping trick in MTW.