Just how good is the hotseat multi-player?
Although I will always state that number III is the best, this one has made up for the degradation IV and V succumbed to with the useless expansion packs and the graphics improvements without attention to the rapidly shallowing characters to the point of them being shallower than a summer puddle in the desert. In number VI I never skipped a cut-scene, not because of the graphics (which were none less than beautiful), but because of the storyline which is the most engaging since number III.
I really want to see how the inevitable expansion packs and patches improve the game because they're going to be amazing (unless they keep changing their minds about a small detail like they did in number IV with the caravan system).