No gore, nor extraordinary eye candy besides a simple map, and your chess pieces (silos, planes, boats, subs etc). Sort of like a Diplomacy game with nukes, simpler.
You can make alliances (6 players per game IIRC), the game is pretty much all strat.. It doesn't seem to have much micromanagement.
It's 15$ for the full game, demo is limited to 2 players. There's also an "office" mode, in 1x time compression, and an extra large map mode, which lenghtens the game.
Their servers are hosed with traffic, at the moment.Wikipedia has a an article on it, in the meantime...
hereMirror:
http://www.gamershell.com/download_15728.shtml