This game will keep you up at night thinking of new strategies.
Sounds are great capturing the style of game play and give a feeling for the era of the time in history of the game.
My experience is that a friend left a copy of the game at my house, I had some time off work so I installed it and started playing in the late afternoon. I was up all night working through the campaigns, my friends had a hard time getting me away from my computer. Now having said that, Ive read alot of reviews on this site that are up in the nines. Ive played a few of them but most I could only play for a couple of hours at a time because they failed to hold my interest. Theres a difference between a game thats well put together and a game you just cant put down, you dont want it to end because its just that good.
This game is like that it has epicness about it. I highly recomend it for anyone who likes strategy games.
Now onto the multi-player, after about 2 months I decided to give it a try. I just picked some random game and played this guy and won lol. So I decided to join an expert game, this guy asked if I was an expert, I said yea I
beat the game on hardest. I guess he thought he`d give me a lesson on what an expert really is. Anyway I learned something, but also got a taste of some of the most fun multi-player games ive ever played. The only problem is the game kind of died in multi sure they have it on gamespy also some private servers, just isnt as much fun as the zone. If microsoft had kept this game up like bliz does with WC3 and other games, I think there would be alot of people playing it still today. Hackers and cheaters basicly ruined the multi-player. But microsoft could have fixed that.
This game transported me through time into another world, that experience kept me up alot of nights for about a year. I also made alot of good friends playing it online, I dont know about you but thats worth a ten to me.