it should be better. As others have said, there are some great ideas here. The different races are fun to play, lots of unique units. The shear volume of soldiers on the field at once is impressive. I haven't played any multiplayer, but the single player skirmish mode is no fun. Once the computer finds you, it just sends wave after wave of enemies after you. Your only real "strategy" is to set some units on infinite build, and hope you can level up on some tech trees before you get over-whelmed by the enemy. Or, have a computer player on your team to distract the enemy so you can build more. I wish there were more game settings, so you could alter enemy behavior, just adjust various game settings, or maybe change how long it takes your hero to revive post-rally, etc. It's hard not to compare it to AoE, and even the first version or two of that game is better than this. I'm glad that I bought it on sale, because I probably won't play it again. There are better games out there.
