Well i love the enviroment etc. 8th century poor ****hole full of ugly people and ****ty technologies and culture. Then BOOM you can be epic viking killing innocent priests and raiding monastaries

And the main menu music is damn epic!
Even tho the release was **** becouse tons of bugs, the core etc. has it all right! The annoying thinks can be patched or modded away, and mods will make this even more epic adventure!
Rome 2 was great flop, it release was an disaster! But even now when its patched complete and got tons of DLC etc. Its still hollow shell of what i excpected. No family trees etc etc. No mods can fix these hardcoded features. The Attila expansion seems to have it all what i wanted... but i learned my lesson and never ever preorder from creative assembly.