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Visceral? If you like ridiculously proportioned cartoon characters getting blown around by explosions, this is your game. When I think of visceral, I think of the original Myth from about 6 years ago. That had body parts getting torn off and flipping through the air while blood sprayed from the severed limbs. Now that was visceral and entertaining. This is nerfed violence with hackneyed character actions, voices and dialogue. The actors are hacks, but they're professional hacks so they follow the formula in a very professional way. Unfortunately, I'm not particularly attracted to the WWF style of acting. The game also reminds me too much of the very childish Warcraft in the way characters are drawn and the way people go flying. Nice effect, but it's been done. At least this game isn't all blue. The gameplay if fun, but there's a lot of mouse clicking and scrolling around to be done. Pretty cool the way you can reinforce your teams right on the field. It doesn't make much sense, but it beats having to tell some clown to go from way back in the beginning to wherever your team is now. I will admit I enjoyed the demo and played it several times. The battles are a blast and like I said, it's easier to stay near the front and in the action. If you want more realism and historical accuracy, you might want to get Rome Total War. You can set live pigs on fire and send their squealing, flaming selves into the war elephants and troops in the hopes of causing panic and carnage. They also let you use dogs to tear the arms off opponents. It just doesn't get more "historical" than that.