I made the mistake of buying Rome first then thinking that for the price of them I might as well have Medieval and Shogun. I have had Rome for around 1.5 years and not got bored of it yet. Shogun I first played arund 1 month ago and although it does not match up to Rome it was like a grand-scale game of chess trying to out play the AI. Lots of fun. Now after reading this i'm definately going to load up Medieval. It was the time periods and the ages of the games that put me off but for this forum to be so active for a game from 2002 it must be good. Nice work up there lads!! very good read.