Image Quality and System requirements

Visual Image Quality

Anno 2205 looks surprisingly good, sometimes ever really good. Whether from far away or several times magnified with zoom, graphically the title looks great from almost every point of view. From the carefully designed houses to the authentic-looking vegetation, every detail is simply great. This is a DirectX 11 API class title. Blue Byte has created a atmospheric place where many of cars drive the streets and people stroll about in the park or walk along the paths. 
 

Anno 2205 Cinematic Fly-by, an option in-game to fly over your created island rendered in real-time. The day/night cycles look beautiful. This captured with a GeForce GTX 970 (3.5GB) at 1080P.

Good to see is that the characters and moving vehicles are now sized just right in relation to buildings. The closer the player moves the camera towards the unfolding scenes, the more visible the developer's efforts become.  Again, it looks pretty good.

System requirements

MINIMUM:

• OS: Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1 or Windows 10(64bit versions) 
• Processor: Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.2 GHz 
• Memory: 4 GB RAM 
• Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX460 or AMD Radeon HD5870 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0) 
• Storage: 35 GB available space 
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers

Anno 2205 offers the option to adjust the overall quality in one go, even mid-game you can change settings and resolutions without the need for a restart. You will have five presets (Low to Ultra High). Aside from anti-aliasing, all of these image quality levels feel well-balanced. Anti-aliasing is a bit of a conundrum though and already activated on the Medium preset and quickly raised to 8xAA at HIGH quality preset. Which is too much, we feel.