Nice graphics, animations and sound. But look under the hood and greet a developer team new to the concept of a mouse.
Move the mouse pointer to the edge of the screen, and get lucky:
If you managed to hit the edge at some pixel already populated by one of the numerous pop-up windows, the game won't scroll at all.
Even if it did, you will most likely encounter the first choppy frames since starting this game up.
And even if this does not bother you, there is still the problem of stopping the scolling already. Chances are your mouse pointer wandered off inside a pop-up. Guess what? Yeah, infinite scrolling!
Of course things are not THAT bad since noone is stopping you from scrolling by using the middle mouse button and fooling around.
Erm... wrong. That middle mouse button should be renamed after some god of Lag for once, and it should be noted that it does not stop moving while scrolling, so you end up hitting menue pixels as described above more often than not.
Cursor keys do work however. Yes, really. Much too slow to keep up with the action, but this is one rare opportunity the developers of this game did not mess up with totally.
So, how to review Settlers VI? I ended up with that easy little aspect of scrolling, but be assured there are more aspects hindering you from immersing into a beautiful coloured and animated virtual life than allowing it.
As for me, i deinstalled it after about 5 hours of boredom, thinking about replaying through the old "Anno" games instead. Back in the times where we had great great games just hindered by the internet which was non-existant then for patching.
Not that i think about a wonder patch bringing this failed abonimation to live duty of course as it does not "bite" in contrast to what developer "Blue Bytes" wants you to suspect.