This did look like it might be interesting and very different to your run of the mill game. Gamespot take a good look today.

These wars are always ludicrous, as the game's odd system of alliances draws in nations that are thousands of miles away from the initial flash point. So you regularly get such oddities as the above example, where half of central Asia and a European superpower invade the Indian subcontinent for no apparent reason.

Apparently, it is somewhat less than perfect.