• Full 3D structures, units and environment;
• Dozens of historically inspired structures and environments rendered in full detail in a 3D world
• More than 40 unique citizen professions;
• Freedom of structure construction and road placement;
• More than 20 different resources to gather and trade with;

• Economy based on a simulation of the needs and desires of every citizen;
• Families that raise children and care for their seniors;
• Barbarian settlements on the map that the player can fight against or trade with;
• Training of armies to protect the town and defeat the barbarians;
• Free building mode on numerous pre-constructed maps;
• Non-linear campaign with over 30 missions in 11 historical towns across Europe;
• Varied social, trade and military goals in the campaign;