First off, the number of battlefields you can fight on are pitifully few, especially if you fight in the same territory over and over. That alone made me bored out of my mind after a month. But there seems to be, and I have a hard time explaining this, no real strategy involved with the battles. And I still find the way you maneuver your camera a little awkward. Sometimes it starts scrolling by itself.
Graphics are beautiful.
The units are small though, and on the battlefield, the combination of small units and a lot of fog will have you cramming your face right next to your moniter to see where the bloody battle is. They really should have made the units bigger, it would save this game from a lot of problems. Emissary scenes look really good, and the movies are good too. Except that there's only about a total of 5 maybe 6 movies total to watch, and I assure you, you will watch them, over, and over. The diplomacy scenes, in my mind, are completely useless.