Braden, it makes a massive difference as to what the unit detail is set at. On medium/low it looks like you say, a bit average, no improvement on RTRPE. By the time I got to Pavia I had dropped the shadows to off and upped the unit detail to high and it looked lovely. The big manor house & encampments were very nice, more like an FPS than an RTS

And don't forget the promo screenies & videos will be on an uber-pc which has been optimised for MTW2.