It has always been one of my favourites. If you can get to grips with how the system works (production chain, layouts, orientation anf feeding of the troops...) you will definately enjoy it if you like city building games with combat. My main complaint about it (I had it with the original as well) is that there is no option for just free building, to just get a random map and do your thing as a single player. Which is a shame because I don't tend to favour multiplayer much...