Great strategy game, with lots of action too.
The game is somewhat hard, but not too hard to take away from the fun. The historical battle tend to be harder than most other things in this game.
This game has a custom battle mode where you can set up just about any kind of medieval battle you can imagine. Or you can play with a quick battle, so that if you don't know what to do in a custom battle, you can have the game choose for you.
And finally, the campaign. You plays as Rome, and basically the goal is to build up cities and take over news ones, and fight in wars. This mode must be the very most addictive thing in the game.