Sea Dogs II is the sequel to the critically acclaimed RPG-at-Sea, Sea Dogs, and offers a wealth of expansions and improvements in gameplay, graphics, interface, and more. You captain your own ship and have the opportunity to live the life of a pirate by fighting tooth-and-nail for gold and experience. Adventuring choices range from captaining a squadron for one of the European powers, bloodthirsty pirating, peaceful and profitable merchant sailing, or becoming a fearless bounty hunter. Players will have the ability to create their own character and develop their skills over time. These skills will affect a number of gaming aspects, from controlling the ship and boarding actions to trading operations and dialogues with the world's populace. You won?t be alone, as some of the computer-controlled characters you'll encounter (NPCs) may eventually team up with your hero. The companions you control can accompany you while strolling through islands and towns; they can even watch your back in a fight! Sea Dogs II expands gameplay options by featuring two distinct gameplay aspects ??at sea? and ?in town.? At sea, you will steer the ship, raise and lower the sails, handle artillery engagements with enemy ships and forts and board enemy ships. You can actually manage the ship, her hold, her armament, crew, passengers and prisoners. Combat can feature multiple ships on each side and provide moments of breathtaking drama and beauty. In town, your hero can explore buildings, take various items, talk and fight with troublesome NPCs, and more. While walking through town, your hero can enter taverns, shipyards, churches and other buildings, and can also travel overland across the islands. Here you will encounter an open tropical landscape filled with danger and adventure, including secret treasure caves and smuggler's lairs. Providing improved quest management, expanded gameplay options on land, enhanced graphics Sea Dogs II will bring the ultimate pirate experience to gamers everywhere. General Feature Set: 1. Mix of two independent game modes, each with its own gameplay. Valuable fusion of role-playing game and sailing ship simulator. 2. Spacious game world full of pirates and sea romance. 3. Staggering graphics from the Storm 2 game engine, able to precisely imitate sea scenery, tropical landscapes and colonial towns, including weather and lightning effects. 4. Use of skeletal animation and motion capture for giving life to more than 150 game characters. 5. Ability to create a character and control their further evolution using a unique role-playing characteristics system, developed specially for "Sea Dogs 2". 6. Over 30 historically accurate sailing ships for players to steer. Six different varieties of cannon can be installed onto these ships. 7. Quest generation system, giving players a chance to continue the game even after completion of the main story line. 8. Ability to join NPCs to the player character and create a game party; manage the NPC's evolution, along with their ships and crews. 9. A chance to take part in large-scale naval battles. Player gives orders to their allies and companions, but can also sink and board enemy ships alone. If the player has an overwhelming advantage, the enemy may surrender. 10. Ability to moor on any shore if the landscape doesn't prevent the ship from drawing near. Travel in the primeval jungles of tropical islands, where landscape is generated. Hidden "secret" locations can be discovered on the islands outside towns. 11. Siege colonies to ransack them or raise the flag of a European power over them. Ability to set fort commandant and fort garrison of captured forts. 12. Massive melee combats with numerous people taking action in it. Boarding, fort sieges and simply street scuffles can occur any time. Ability to use cold steel and firearms in melee combats. Ability to replenish player's crew, taking surrendered enemies into the player's crew. 13. Ability to take captives and slaves in boarding and fort sieges, in order to improve profits with ransoms and slave trade. 14. Ability to blockade islands and sea routes that could weaken an island fort garrison or the arrival of a punitive squadron. 15. Ability to sneak into a hostile town to complete a given quest. Ability to smuggle goods and sell them for higher prices. Or be caught by the guards... and killed! 16. Player character interacts with different game objects. 17. Player character can obtain items, which affect their parameters and abilities. 18. Ability to change character's clothes in different game situations or at the player's whim. Multi-player Feature Set 1. Up to 16 players over the Internet. 2. Various multi-player game modes - from Deathmatch to Team Capture the Fort. 3. Powerful site search system. 4. Online Fame Board, where players can see their own position among players of the world.