Pro:
+ Very nice graphics
+ Interesting topic with little competition
+ Good sound and voice soundtracks
+ Upon execution of a battle in the campaign, the terrain is perfectly integrated
+ Skill Trees for almost all characters / agents (Metsuke, Ninja, General, Monk, geisha, etc.)
+ Addresses many content from past TW games on
+ Multiplayer ingenious innovations like the Co-op campaign and the Avatar Conquest mode
Cons:
- Require Steam
- Broadly enough (struggle) units, boring repetition of weapons (eg Naginata Samurai, warrior monks and Naginata Naginata Warrior Nuns
to egtl. distinguished only by minor differences in armor and combat effectiveness and defense)
- Sometimes poorly coded, with some graphics cards not fully compatible (see ATI 3600)
- Multiplayer without Steam impossible -> breaks the connection to the server from, you fly out (and that does not happen often!)
- As its predecessors endless loading times (not due to the system, i5 2500K 3.3GHz 8GB 1333MHz RAM)
- Game crashes (system dependent) from sometimes, but actually it runs quite stable
All in all a buy recommendation, the drawbacks are just the Steam registry and also the fact that the game will be boring CAN (it needs but not necessarily), since all the clans virtually have the same units, apart from the Ikko-Ikki, the but you have to buy yourself as DLC.