Panzer General II introduces what SSI calls the Living Battlefield. The results are highly attractive and accurate battlefield backgrounds for each scenario. Gone are the plain Jane maps of previous games. Now we have attractive maps based on hand painted images of real battlefields. But it's more than maps.
Units also look three dimensional and look as if they are really travelling down roads, etc.
Sound effects are basic. With battle sounds and some ambient effects. Nothing spectacular, but it all works. The multimedia on the other hand just looks out of place. While the rest of the game has a polished look, the video cut scenes and victory animations look quite poor in comparison.