Posted on: September 19, 2016

Benzil666

Spiele: 153 Rezensionen: 2

Open ended high seas romp.

First of all, let me say my game play experience comes from owning the release on the original Xbox so I cannot comment on the PC version which as I understand had a few extra elements removed from the Xbox version (if memory serves I remember reading something about an additional mini game centred around finding the lost cities in the PC version, where in the Xbox version I think you just needed to land near them to find them). This game is very much a case of whether you can overcome a certain lack of depth within most aspects of the game play experience in exchange for a greater breadth of game play styles within Pirates that you may not find in some other games. It also has a great deal of charm and succeeds in creating for me what felt like a living, breathing world to travel within and make alliances and enemies by the score. Most importantly I felt like allowed me to tell (or at least try to tell) the story I wanted to tell in that particular play through. Want to be a main driven by nothing but greed of treasure? Go for it. You want to be a famous pirate hunter? Sure thing. Want to pursue your dream of reuniting with your family? Make it so. You could even try making a fortune purely as a trader if that takes your fancy. The game never tells you that pursuing any or all of these is wrong and you can be who you want to be. The worst that will happen is you will be told you retired to be an unknown scalliwag in the back of beyond. My only negative in the game is that while there is theoretically a time limit on the game (as you age or become injured the minigames become more difficult and punishing and you essentially end up being forced into retirement), you are often able to complete most of if not all of the major goals of the game and rather than feeling like a different character/story each time, it ends up feeling like the same character/story multiple times over, but when the game is this fun I felt that was a relatively minor complaint. Recommended

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Posted on: January 28, 2024

Faldang

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Spiele: 2618 Rezensionen: 34

Feel-good pirate simulator

As many other reviews have said, this is a fairly shallow game, with few real mechanics and a bunch of mini-games. The story is paper thin, the visual style is OK, but nothing remarkable. But man, it is A METRIC TON of fun! Yes, it's repetitive; but it doesn't matter because I can basically feel the sweet sea breeze as I sail out of a port in a new ship with a band of vicious pirates behind me, to find out what kind of trouble I can get myself into this season. Yes, the mini-games get annoying, but a lot of them are not really mandatory (as far as I can remember) so you can take a break from some for a while. Yes, the world has very little permanence, but it's so damn charming, and you start to feel like you're in an actual place after a while. I loved getting involved in wars as a privateer and taking over forts and cities and such. I would plan my whole seasonal activity around that: plunder ships so I can get a lot of crew in, high morale, all that, and then trek through the jungle so I can attach a city from the rear where they least expect it. Again, as other reviews have said, if you're looking for a realistic or hardcore or deeply strategic experience, this is probably not the game for you. But if you're looking for a happy-go-lucky take on the Pirates of the Whatever kind of media, it can be an excellent time.

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Posted on: July 26, 2017

JacksonSlade

Spiele: 40 Rezensionen: 1

Repetitive, yet full of replayable value

I do not own GoG version. But I have owned the original game since 05-06. The play disc is in the tray right now as I just played it yesterday. For some reason I was hooked from the get go, I find it relaxing and fun, despite it's repetition. It's solid and stable unlike many newer games, It has worked, patched, in every single Microworm OS without nothing more then capability settings. I use/play it for eye/hand coordination exercising.

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Posted on: January 2, 2022

DarthZombie

Spiele: 41 Rezensionen: 13

Charming remake, but repetitive

For a more in-depth video review, check here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oZ9XZ_Wzfc Fair warning: if you use a numpadless keyboard you're in for a world of hurt, since its binds are all set to those and can't be rebinded. You can still use a mouse on what's essentially a virtual in-game keyboard, but in mini-games you're screwed. This is a remake of Sid Meier's original Pirates from the 80s. In that sense, it's a graphical update of the same game. You can raid ships, sell cargo, search for treasures, attack cities to plunder, and so on. Its corny artstyle is nice to look at, and it helped the game avoid looking dated even after more than 15 years. Unfortunately, this remake introduced a sort of a story. I mean, that's not the problem, it's the mechanics it introduces alongside it. You're portraying a character that needs to rescue his long-lost family who lost all their wealth and became imprisoned by an evil Marquis. This implies the same thing - find 4 pieces of a map and go rescue them, but they all imply attacking the same character over and over again. It's a bit ridiculous that the game pretends that you interrogate this guy for any scrap of information he has about your relatives' whereabouts, but in reality he knows the location of ALL your relatives from the start. It's just that the game requires you to perform the same thing for 16 times. The rest of the game tends to be repetitive as well, but to its credit, the game doesn't force you to do anything. You have absolute free reign, and quite a few activities to perform. Ironically, the only new addition, escaping from a city's prison, is also by far the weakest mini-game. But regardless, for 1-2 playthroughs it can be an enjoyable experience, before the feeling of repetitiveness settles.

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Posted on: April 17, 2017

AngelesJera

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Spiele: 15 Rezensionen: 1

Nostalgia at its finest

I was in high school when I heard about this game and I started playing it right away. I find the game both simple and challenging in many different aspects. The style of play is simple enough to understand but you need to do a lot of familiarizing if you want to be able to find locations easier. Sailing is something I find boring because of the lengthy voyage but then again, that's a pirate's life. Trading for goods is also a nice way of using the storage haul of your ship/s but I prefer taking it from other ships because it pays well ( :D ) Treasure hunting is easy if you can follow the map correctly. Having options of being incredibly loyal to your first choice of voyage or being something else makes the game interesting although it's hard to maintain your neutral state especially when you want to ransack colonies. The only trouble I ever had is by the time I needed to search for an Incan temple near Gran Granada but that's about it. It's also nice that you have the capability of switching game difficulty after dividing the plunder. The daughters of governors and all and trying to dance with them is nice for me too especially when they start giving me favors. I remember back then being able to find all my family members but now that I've installed this again after many years, I can't seem to get pass aging and I can't find all of them in time, I may need more practice. 5 stars for such a throwback game. Nice one.

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