Posted on: March 6, 2018
HeathGCF
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 42
Sinking Pig
I tried the original Sea Dogs game a while back and just couldn't get into it. The UI was atrocious, your character felt like they were floating around when on land, controls were bad, menus and information presentation was terrible, and the only thing vaguely decent was the naval battles. Having spotted this game on sale here, I thought why not give it a whirl. Given the original Sea Dogs came out in 2000 and there was another in 2006, plus a Pirates of the Caribbean adaption in the meantime, you would think a 2009 release of City of Abandoned Ships would be vastly superior, after almost a decade for the developer to make significant improvements. Wrong... It looks slightly better graphically, but other than that, it's just as terrible as the first game in about every respect, and even worse in some. Frustrated with the vanilla game, I spent countless hours trawling through forums for some of the mods mentioned by fellow GOG reviewers, and although they make some improvements, they're nothing more than lipstick on a pig because the core game itself is just so bad. This only gets one star out of five because, A) Using a combination of sale price and wallet funds it only cost me €0.59 and, B) I can't give zero stars via the rating system here. I genuinely believe that unless you have a masochistic desire to punish yourself with the 'experience' of such a poorly made game, it's best to avoid it entirely. Seriously, stick to Sid Meier's Pirates! instead if you've already got it, and if you haven't, buy it instead of any Sea Dogs game.
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