This game is not for the stuiped. Neither is this game for the button masher loving fools. This game is all strategy. Yes, thinking is involved. Much thinking. People who nag about the games instruction manual size or the fact that there is some strategy involved in a strategy game are just plain out of their pea picking minds. I read a review the other day commenting on the size of the instruction manual size. 'The instruction manual weighs in at a hefty 250 pages...way too much". That is insane. Overall this is probably the greatest game ever created. Everything from the sound to the fact that actual thinking is involved is amazing. If you know anything about video games buy this game...NOW!!!