Not crazy about it. I like a big, detailed manual...The one for Galciv 2 is about 75 pages or so, and is pretty good. The Elemental manual is about 35 pages. It's good for what it is, but I love this game and want to know as much as I can about it. I think the manual could have been 2 or 3 times as large and gone into better detail about the elements of the game.