The age of sails and PC Gaming is here.. :)
The campaign mode has finally started to be less micromanagement and more strategy and choices, tedious things have been removed like assassins and diplomats and the siege fest of old games and hundreds of regions is long gone and replaced with a much slicker and faster game.
Strategic depth has arrived with more choices and less build everything in every region.
Add trade, research diplomacy and the maps large scope and you got an excellent campaign game.
Then finally add great looking and playing land battles with grand scope plus the new sea battles and we have a nice treat for PC gamers.
Sure the game needs to find its sea legs, but when it does its a classic.