I was also late in getting Shogun - it was a bargin - at a time when I was very "green" with computer games and had only ever played things like Brood Wars or C&C.

I was a bit nervous that it might have been too complex for me but how wrong I was!

The battlefields were vast!
Weather was spectacular!
And most importantly the enemy was cunning and intelligent.

I miss....

..the AI just....running away (though that happened to a lesser extent in M:TW)

...the weather.....why was fog so thick you couldn't see the hand infront of your face taken away from us with the other games. Where is the Thunder and Lightening? The driving rain or the deep, deep snow??

I had hoped that the best bits from Shogun would re-appear in Rome and was disappointed. I will never understand why the best bits of both Shogun and Medieval never made it to Rome.

Why wasn't Rome just a graphically enhanced Shogun with Medieval scale??

Shogun was small and personal and I certainly miss the music - though personally I always felt THE best music was in Medieval (how many computer games would you run on a PC....in the background....just so you could have an evening of just listening to the soundtrack on the campaign map?!?)

Turn system....perfect
Ai......perfect
Atmosphere....perfect

Why was it not just made MORE perfect by adding 3D graphics I will never know.

How upset I am that my PC will no longer run Shogun OR Medieval for some unknown reason?

The words fail me.....