The gameplay is great! although the sieges are full of AI noobness thats just a disadvantage and not really that much important.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1--XW3t ... re=relatedVideos can explain things to you much better but it is very great. For Replayability you can join any faction in the game and theres 5 of them so you can conquer the map with each. There are also rebels for each faction who should really have that throne and you can help them get it. Giving the total of 10 games if you want. But of course you can leave a faction anytime you want when you joined them.
You can go in tournaments and earn some money (these are great fun if you go to the right ones as it changes for each area like just archers and throwing rocks in one town but in another lances and axes etc). And for evil characters you can raid villages and take all their supplies. This of course angers the faction that village belongs too.
Mainly the fun thing for me is to lead your armies into battle and watch them crush the enemy! And you can join in unlike the total wars where you just watch them do as you tell them. Of course you can also give commands say for archers you can tell them to stop on a hill and fire arrows at the enemy when they in their sights while the cavalry could be behind them waiting for a charge and then you can just send them in.
I just wish it was multiplayer already.