Extremely good fun and Excellent gameplay.
You start out with just a tiny town center area and a beaten up looking castle, as you grow your town you will need to tend to the Settlers needs, needs such as food, water and clothing, all of which are gathered, processed and preduced by you. Building the right amout of production buildings and gathering buildings is key to this game. It's never a bad thing when you are over stocked but it isnt always a good thing.
The graphics are very well done and show off some rich and highly detailed buildings and surroundings, I was quite impressed with the water effects myself but the buildings that you will create are outstandingly detailed and very pleasing to the eye. The Settlers themselfs are well detailed, there are some parts to there models however that look a little flat when zoomed right in however this is hardly noticable.
The gameplay is smooth and quick, there feels like there is no time at all to just sit around and do nothing, there is always somthing that needs to be tended to by you as your settlement is growing all the time. People will be constintly working, walking and trading all over, giving you many things to watch wile you are waiting for your next objective's.
With all of this you might be thinking that The Settlers 6 is an awesome game. This is true however there are a handful of miner issues that really let this game down. First of all the Zoom level is not very good, you feel to close to the map even when the zoom is out to the max, the scrolling of the game is laggy and does not move about smoothly, the scroll speed at it's max seems a little slow, not somthing that you would expect from max scroll speed settings, the audio somtimes doesnt hold up quite well, by this I mean the speach, when your knight is talking to you I have noticed that somtimes, when you are micro-managing, the audio will cut out and mess up.
Looking past the minor but quite annoying bugs in this title, this game is still, at least, a must play. Weather building huge cities is your style or just taking it nice and slow, The Settlers 6 will have somthing everyone will enjoy playing.