In February Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery is upgraded with the add-on Venice. On our inquire Ubisoft also told us that currently there are no plans for a demo version of Anno 1404 Venice. Furthermore we were told that the system requirements of the add-on would match those of the main game although the required disc space can vary (the final amount has not been set yet).

The Minimal system requirements of Anno 1404 Venice:

• Processor: 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or comparable
• RAM: 1 GiByte
• Graphics card: 128 MiByte video memory with Pixel Shader 2.0

The Recommended system requirements of Anno 1404 Venice:

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 (2.4 GHz) or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2.5 GHZ)
• RAM: 2 GiByte
• Graphics card: 512 MiByte video memory with Pixel Shader 3.0

According to Ubisoft the following features will be introduced with the extension:

• The rich Anno 1404 environment gets complemented with a new Venetian setting offering new possibilities of interaction:
- Build two new Venetian ship types: the small and big tradesman cog
- Develop secret cabinets, infiltrate your enemies and sabotage their expansion
- Take control over enemy cities thanks to your influence in the cities' council board

• Play Anno 1404 online in a multiplayer mode:
- Choose to play versus or coop to defeat the AI by combining your techniques
- Up to 8 players

• New challenges and quests:
- Up to 60 new items and 300 new quests with two new types: trading race and ship boarding
- Discover and exploit a new type of island, the Volcano island
- New scenarios to face new challenges with new achievements, medals and crests

More articles related to Anno 1404 Dawn of Discovery:
• Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery - Patch 1.1 released
• Anno 1404 tested: The first graphics cards and CPU benchmarks