Well, I didn't vote yet, think I'll give the demo one more chance.

Frankly, I'm greatly disappointed. I won't list my complaints in this thread, but sufficie it to say compared to the Shogun Demo, which was a 10!, and Compared to the Medieval Demo, which also was an 8.5, when compared to Shogun.

The MTW demo, wasn't quite the Tutorial that the STW demo was, STW demo's battles were MUCH better! Though, if judged on its w/o the comparison, it'd be a 10, as well.

BOTH demos made me salivate for the game and had an EXTREME feeling of atmosphere and realism.

Unfortunately, the same, IMO, can't be said for the Rome demo.

The Map, discounting the *sprite* tree leaves, is mangificent, though the *water* isn't as impressive as it was in STW, given the improvements in technology.

The Unit graphics, are simply too *cartoonish*, with unrealistic colors and animations. I can imagine and appreciate, the effort that CA put into the engine, but, in today's age, particularly in the age of Far Cry, Doom 3 (, and HL2), the graphics just don't cut it!!!

A couple of years ago, they'd be cutting edge, but the graphics are a couple years behind the times.

Frankly, the old STW sprites, and certainly the MTW units, look BETTER and have MUCH MORE **REALISTIC** ANIMATIONS!!

The demo just didn't give me any *feeling*.

The Interface plainly is a poor imitation of what WORKED. It wasn't broken, why'd they try and fix it? I had no idea they were going to screw around with the interface.

Imagine, if a FPS, went and change the familiar WASD keyboard interface, to RDFG. There's be an uproar louder than an Atom bomb across the Internet!

The rest of my thoughts I'll leave for one more play and another thread, thank you for listening.

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~ToranagaSama