Just watching the game load, and the beautiful stained-glass picture gradually fill with rainbow colors is entertaining. And you can bet the computer knows this and uses it to the utmost advantage. Ah, the graphics. The fog of war IS fog, and it looks extremely good. Think of an old English Sherlock Holmes movie with Basil Rathbone winding through the moors.
Mountains look like mountains.
Trees have leaves and rock cliffs remind me of Colorado vacations. As a landscape photographer, I have an eye for the beauty of detail. You can find yourself sitting and watching the action fall where it may, win, loose, I don't care, just sit back and take it all in. The music fits the atmosphere of the game perfectly, unit sounds are good as well. The cries of the poor fallen are pure agony, heheh.