Adding the fact that any two of these activities could constitute a full game, you re going to be very busy. Starting up takes a while. There s a hell of a lot to learn, but it s all done with style as your walked through the mechanics of the game by your two spiritual advisors. Your good and bad conscience stay with you throughout the game offering advice and giving you choices in each situation you are confronted with. The advisors bring a lot of humour in to the game, the evil advisor made me smile far more often than Mr good two shoes.
Controls are tight and responsive.
You can do anything with the mouse, but I found mapping all movement controls to the keyboard made it much easier to navigate the world. There are quite a few hot keys that enable you to instantly skip to specific structures or areas, or you can map your own. The graphics are absolutely amazing. You can zoom from a bird s eye view of your country right down to the toenails of one of your followers. Smooth and crisp all the way.