It's awesome. They pulled off putting two games in one very well. The empire-building resource-management game (world map) isn't as detailed as, say, Civ, but it's good enough to keep you busy. The battles though are the best part of it - the detail is amazing, and the gameplay of 'em is nice as well.

Only beef I have with it is the AI - it's easy to beat both on the campaign map and on the battles. But that's fine by me - I love winning.

That said, Civ4 is due out at the end of October (at least in the US, donno about Europe)...I doubt poker will see me for a while once that hits the shelves