Ubisoft recently announced that an expansion to Anno 1404, their acclaimed real-time strategy and simulation game, will be arriving in EMEA (Europe, Middle-East and Africa) territories in February next year, and will this time take players to Venice while adding a much requested online multiplayer mode.
Marketing director of EMEA at Ubisoft, John Parkes said of the expansion: “With Anno 1404 Venice we are proud to bring a whole new dimension to gamers by letting them experience new multiplayer challenges online with their friends.
“We’re confident that this add-on will please fans of the series as well as newcomers to the franchise.”
A list of Anno 1404: Venice’s key features follows below:
- 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
El33tonline rather enjoyed the original Anno 1404, so you should definitely keep your eye on the expansion.
- This animated Halo 4 cover art warns of an ancient awakened evil
- Exclusive: Halo 4 Limited Edition announced with South African pricing and pre-order details
- Exclusive: Halo Infinity Multiplayer revealed for Halo 4, innovative online modes detailed
- Gears of War Wednesday: Be sensitive and take control, like a pro
- North American Darksiders II release date revealed!
- Konami targeting October release for Silent Hill: Book of Memories
- El33tonline Exclusive: Interview with Vince Andrews, Prototype 2's real-life James Heller
- The Arrival of Azmodan: A Desperate Plea to the Armies of Light
- El33t P33p of the Month: 2012 Edition!
- Debut FIFA 13 screenshots and details arrive as Messi launches an offensive
- Sick Burn: Journey's Jenova Chen says PS3 gamers are "more likely" to be interested in artistic games
- Exclusive: Halo Infinity Multiplayer revealed for Halo 4, innovative online modes detailed

Comments:
will the add-on be on a retail disk or will we have to buy it online?
In all likelihood, it'll release in both formats, but most likely on a disk.