It's not a bad game, in fact, if you can look past the stupid AI and the countless bugs, it's a very good game but with oh so much more potential. I just got very bored of it after one campaign. Its main pitfall for me is the exclusion of the RISK board. I loved this in Medieval and really, really did not latch on to the new Board. Maybe it's the fact that armies are so sparse on the board, and they tend to miss each other alot because there's so much room to move, that I barely have any non-Siege battles. Siege can be fun, but when 70% of my battles are sieges, it gets to be a tedious routine.

Of course, there are many great mods coming out for the game, and I never played the vanilla version of the game (downloaded RTR right after I got the game), but these mods will never fix my main gripe with the game - the Board. And, unfortunately, eye candy really doesn't do it for me. Graphics are not a factor at all when I buy a game.