I am glad they brought up the UI. I don't see many reviews talking about that part and I think that is one of the things that really makes these types of games play well. Having the right info at the right time and being able to easily manage all of that info is so important. Shogun 2 made some excellent updates to the UI and was almost perfect in my opinion(as far as ui and usability). For some reason they lost all of the good parts of the UI. And why is rome 2 mini maps so small! they are useless at that size.