I can't say I really minded the lack of a world map... Maybe it would have added a small touch of flair but each area was well mapped, you are provided with a golden trail taking you to places that are new or fast travel for places you've been before. I don't see a gaming need for a world map at all.
On a completely different subject, it did make me think about capitalism a bit... I ended the game as the most wonderful and nicest hero Albion could want but I made my money first as an honest blacksmith working for a few coins, then as an honest arms dealer, trading cheap weapons from the smithy I worked for to poor impoverished villagers who no doubt used them to prolong a bloody conflict with the local bandits. Finally I invested my blood money in every local business I came across, buying shop after stall across the world, ruthlessly crushing competition and establishing a world wide monopoly on everything purchasable. Everything. And, of course, I demanded a huge 'owner's discount' on everything I bought from my globo-chain.
And they still call me Hero, hell, they called me Mayor and King and worshiped me despite the fact that my blood stained fingers were in every single pie in the land.