A great RPG and a great geography lesson to boot! Just be aware of certain bugs. The largest I've noticed is that no party member can hold more than 64 different kinds of items. Anything more than this will be deleted silently!
Despite numerous glowing reviews I cannot recommend Conquest of the New World. The goal of not cheating by the AI is commendable but it (perhaps among other things) makes turns very slow. Most of my turns ultimately ended up having mainly to do with repetitive shuttling of resources from one colony to another. Research is a dull affair, with the player being able to build only one military college and that said facility producing solely quantitative rather than qualitative improvements in existing units. Overall, the experience was rather lackluster in the end.
