[SalsaDoom]

Jesus, you seem to dislike the game for the very reason that I like it. I bought the game and love the game, because it has enough options to keep me interested.

I honestly am tired of playing games that cater to the lowest common denominator. I want my brain to be challenged here.

I mean, honestly, are you simply just hopeless bad at strategy games? 35 turns and many hours and you only got 4 provinces? ... what? The first time I played the game I did pretty good and got a decent sized empire..!

I love the huge list of spells. I love the variety of units. I love the varied magic sites. I love seeing what crazy stuff happened between turns.

The battle sequence is graphically simple, thats true. But the terrain looks good enough, and frankly, I like the fact the battles are completed fairly quick. Although, the missile speed should be adjustable for the love of god!!

Micromanagement? In Dominions II? Hardly. You should see Space Empires 4, it has ten times the micromanagement. Which, incidently, is the #1 game that sharpnel produces. And not relaxing? .. I mean, you worry about if you missed something that much? Forgetting something doesn't ruin your empire, dude.

I agree the music sucks, I turn if off and listen to mp3's.

Addictive. Well, yes. Does your wife know you make Posts like this?

I donno what exactly your complaining about, since the game is exactly what it was advertised as. Like yourself, I just bought it on whim. But I at least read what I was getting into. If Dom2 was missing the spells, units, options and what else, it just wouldn't be 1/10th of the game it is now.

If Dom3 didn't have everything that Dom2 had and whackload more, I wouldn't bother to play the demo even.

--SD