Screenshots shall speak for me. Although I wpuld like to say I'm much happier how much better the interface is from Rome.

Wow! that game actually does look pretty slick, how does it handle on your machine? any major choppyness with that man dudes on at once?

It usually runs at 30-35 FPS, but if you zoom in to the middle of a battle, it sinks as low as 20.

What Atejas said. It's absolutely gorgeous and the gameplay is mindblowing. 
And it defaulted to everything max, and that for a 8800GTX on 1920x1200.

Not a fan of the Total War games at all, but those shots don't look anything like the shots they were throwing around before the demo was out...

Dam, I was thinking of getting a new GPU and power supply just to play this game. I'm still playing Rome :)

Wow, I just did the naval battle again, and even with a few tweaks here and there, it went as low as 15 during the more intense segments. They really need to fix that up.

If I try to turn every little thing on and ultra settings 1920x1200 AA 4 my PC just chugs like hell, Crysis runs smoother than this game like that. Regardless, even lowering stuff a bit it still looks beautiful, and the game is pretty amazing.

hm hm hm, that does look very cool, but unfortunately, I never could get into RTS games though, always felt like there's just the one strategy of trying to surround the enemy one way or another.

I played the demo and it's pretty sweet, plus RTS demos are the best.

Hopefully they will optimize the full game

Works great with every thing maxed for me, load times are abit slow with everythng turned on, but i kinda expected that.