I loved it, i think CA have redeemed themselves from the empire series. I never been more impressed by a demo. What you get is a tutorial campaign and a famous historical battle.
I was a quite worried that my rig wouldnt run it at max settings, but i gave it a shot. I turned everything on apart from AA (no choice in demo) and depth of field. And it ran really smooth. Throughout the demo i never got any slowdown apart from speeding the battle pace to max, which wasnt really noticable.
Anyway the ai was brilliant, i especially noticed it on the seige battle. I was given quite a sizable army with pretty cool warriors (rifle shooting monks and ninjas). I setup my positions around the map to get ready to take the castle. I managed to destroy their main gates from afar with my cannons. Meanwhile i sent my cavalry along with general to the right to coax the enemy cavalry into charging me. It didnt work they splitted into two groups around a small hill to attack my cannon. I just managed to reach them in time before they killed all of my cannoners. After killing all there cavalry i sent them east of the castle wall just out of reach of the archers. My archers i sent just below a small a hill to coax a samurai regiment away from the west wall, so my ninjas could go right the way round and climb the walls. It kinda worked i killed the samurai regiment and my ninjas were climbing the wall towards getting the victory winning objective.
They met small resistance which i knew was up there, but what i didnt realise was that there was a samurai regiment hiding behind the building i needed to capture and they attacked and killed my ninjas
Anyway during this time i sent my main army of infantry (peasants and samurai straight through the main gate (medieval 2 tactics are useless) but met heavy resistance from a large army inside. I had my archers fire at the enemy but it was not enough. I sent my general up behind my army to stop routing and inspire my troops. Meanwhile i had a cunning plan i had cavalry, i sent them charging towards the east wall. I clicked dismount and sent them climbing up the wall (such a new cool feature). The enemy was ready for that ploy at cut my dismounted cavalry down really quickly with some nasty samurai.Then i noticed my general dead, while i was giving commands to my cavalry to dismount in that time they made there archers attack my general.
All was lost all i had left was archers going against still a quite sizeable force.
I lost, and i loved it
