Overall a pretty good game, very addicting..... in the start.
You start of as a king of a small European country, and you then has to make your way to the top and lead your country to glory and prestige. This you do by marrying your heir into to another royal family, conquer new land or please the church in some way (by far the easiest). There are two factors called prestige (your power) and piety (how pleased the church is), this two factors decides how high you are in the rankings of Europa's royal families. The goal of the game is obvious to be number one, which is a time-consuming business, but when you're first at the top the game gets a little dull and goalless. You just roam around with your troops conquering new land, and marrying away your children and grandchildren. Then you end up doing the same things about 1000 times, and that's a timewaster for you!
Even though the game turns out very hard or very easy depending on which country you decides to rule, it's still a little boring
At first this game looks very funny and addicting, and it is. But when you have tried all the different features, there just ain't very much more to do, and that's a little sad.
So buy this game if you want a really great, different Real-time strategy game, that doesn't have to last forever.