"wielding graphics that would look right at home in a Dire Straits video"
thats a good explanation of some of the characters graphics in this review
http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3181116&p=1
But to be fair. Apart from these card graphics that look atrocious. The rest of the game looks awesome graphicwise.
Most of the bad is the bad timing on the animations. The cavalry animation is buggy, long after it finished moving it stalls making you wait for several seconds. there is no standard in timing for animations.