My one and ONLY gripe about RTW...

[RTKLamorak]

I completely second blodrast, blood and gore is in the same category as screeching women, 'special' ability/diablo 2...

hmmmm

When you kill someone, they bleed. When i play first person shooters, i like to see the reaction to my shots as true to life as possible (e.g SOF2). In sports games, when i tackle i want to see the force of it, and see the realistic cause/effect true to life to. In an RTS if i shoot a tree, or a rock i want to see it fall down, smash/break or whateva, not just it dissapearing off the map :S

So... when i see hundreds of warriors clash at great speed certain a degree of blood SHOULD be shown, no question imo. I dont want all out, over the top blood and guts... but having absoloutely no blood in an "epic" war game seems silly to me, as well as compeltely unrealistic.

Yes, there are more important things to focus time on than gore, but if it doesnt have ANY blood in battles then it is not a "finished" game imo ... id rather wait another 2 months for balanced/realistic speed, as well as properly implemented gore rather than playing an unfinished, and subsequently unrealistic game.