Is RTW really that bad

[Volstag]

It's not a bad game. It has a ton of potential... but, sadly, potential doesn't necessarily make for good gaming. The engine is absolutely fantastic. Massive kudos to CA on that regard.

That being said, however, the biggest detractors to (vanilla) RTW: glitches/bugs and the fact that it's relatively easy. Fixing the former might take care of the latter but, as it stands, there isn't a whole lot of challenge. Contrast that with a typical game of Civ III (for me): there will be games, and occasions within games, where I'm not sure if I'll be able to win, or not. There'll be occassions when I desperately do NOT want to go to war with certain civs, etc. There'll be occassions/games where I'm at the bottom of the leader board, trying desperately to claw my way to the top. In short: games where I'm periodically/perpetually getting my ass kicked.

In RTW.... that really hasn't happened. I've had a couple scares, but, generally speaking, it's not that difficult to obliterate everything in your path (but since I generally only get to play for 1 to 1.5 hours at a time, this might be a symptom of the save/load "feature")

-V