On YouTube dcalpha007 did a review of Elemental War of Magic.  He was pretty harsh on the campaign (in summarylame).  His tips were:
- Avoid the campaign
- Exploring the map is unnecessary and it's not allowed
- Campaign is too linear
- Campain doesn't explain the skills you'll use and it not a good tutorial for the actual game
- Quests are too easy and boring
- Background story is shallow and there's no reason to pay attention to any of it
- You never get attacked @ your city and defenses are never needed
- Tactical battles have the most bugs: Crashes the game, locks the cursor, spells bug out with bad audio and visual effects
- You can winn a game simply by having an army of summoned monsters or an army maxing out on weapons, spells, or armor and weak in all other areas

Other complaints:
- It's turn based not 4x
- Multiplayer has been disabled because Stardock doesn't want to give it LAN code, and lock everyone into an online service only
- Manual does not cover how to play and lack of tutorial
- Knowedge base is lacking in the area of 'how to play the game'

Accolateds:
- Skirimish mode is very deep and game play is fantastic
- Character customization is amazing
- It's so fun, you'll play and forget the time (can it be windowed so you can see the clock?)

These are his comments.  I wanted to say people have been begging Sid Meier to make a fantasy game for like 15 years TYVM!  Just because he's hard of hearing doesn't mean we can't have a really cool game.  /woo-hoo!

To find this on YouTube search "Elemental - War of Magic review"