Axis & Allies accurately wins in both areas of gameplay and content, despite being so underappreciated.
I later went and purchased the full retail version of the game when the demo multiplayer community had significantly diminished in numbers. It was here that I got totally immersed in this game, and I regretted not buying the game much earlier. The music (for each of the five factions) sounded superb and suspenseful / war-like, campaigns were totally awesome and uniquely built, the map editor proved to be a great asset to the game, the WWII mode was pretty engaging, and to top it all off, the multiplayer mode just blew me away. Multiplayer seems to be the best feature of the game, where players can interact and share their strategies and gameplay tactics with each other and cooperatively work together to fight as a team.
Overall, the only bad quality that the game has is the aforementioned 'incompetent AI'. The AI is pretty weak in an intellectual perspective - it can't effectively take cities, it can't maneuver its armies in any strategic manner (except for rare occasions), and most of its forces are spent in an unrealistic and ineffective manner.
Apart from this setback though, this game is one of the most influential and exhilarating games that I have ever played in my entire life. I also now play other games, such as Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, and Company of Heroes, but Axis & Allies has got to be the most overlooked and underappreciated of the games with players undermining its great value in the areas of gameplay and content.