A detailed and sophisticated strategy game with LOTS of content!
There's a detailed economic, political, diplomatic, and military side to the game, and the parts you don't like can be automated to Generals or Cabinet Ministers.
The scope and scale of battles may be scary to some players (it is the WHOLE WORLD, after all), but with game speed adjustment (and pausing when required), it is possible to march your troops across Asia and land in North America and try to take over the world - or die trying!
This is a very impressive game, and nothing else out there is quite like it. Sound and Graphics could be improved, but for sheer strategy gameplay value it scores a 10.