Lengthy with a well delivered story.
The game takes place in ancient roman lands, Egypt, the orient, and Babylon. The locations look beautiful and fit very well. The story and main missions are exciting and suspenseful, becoming more and more epic as you play. The graphics are very pretty, plenty of nice looking characters and terrain and beautiful dynamic lighting. Character customization seems pretty weak when you make a character, you can only choose a gender and a tunic color from a short list of colors. Many people complain about this but in truth you do not need more customization than that. As you develop your character you can deck them out with so many different types and looks of armor and weapons. There is a very wide selection or armors and weapons, with tons of different enhancements. You can build your character in pretty much any way you desire. There are tons of rare items to get, including full sets of armor which, when complete, give even more enhancements. You get to choose 2 different masteries for your character from a list of 8. This may seem like a small selection, but the key is the combination of the masteries you choose. Since you can choose two masteries, this opens up many combinations. All the masteries compliment other masteries in different ways, how you choose your masteries and skill development defines most of your characters strengths and weaknesses and how they play. You can have a ranged or melee fighter, ranged being either magic or using bow and arrows, and melee can use a wide selection of weapon and even use dual wield weapons.
The wide variety of characters and their play styles gives this game a high replay value, as well as the solid multiplayer. You can host and join co-op games of single player campaign or custom maps and campaigns.
A lot of love was put into the making of this game and it shows.