Become a discoverer - and experience the adventure of a lifetime. Weigh anchor, sail the seven seas, explore new continents and foreign cultures. Demonstrate your strategic skills, business acumen and diplomatic finesse. Revel in the jubilant cheers of your people - but don't disappoint them!

• Maximum interaction with the gaming enviroment through numerous details such as the cheers or protests of the population in the village center, lovingly animated portraits with audio, and the ability to negotiate and engage in diplomacy with foreign peoples.
• Extremely detailed, lifelike graphics, unprecedented effects and breathtaking realism permeate flora and fauna, village life and even natural disasters such as hurricanes, volcano eruptions and earthquakes.
• A unique information mode and stunningly simple, clearly structured user interface give even beginners an ideal point of entry to the game.
• More than 100 sub-quests are integrated dynamically into the game. Players can choose whether or not to accept them. Successful completion brings suitable rewards
• Clandestine diplomacy involving special operations such as sabotage, espionage and demagoguery opens up intelligent, strategic options to proceed.
• Winning conditions can be freely configured for single and multiplayers in the continuous game.