Sid Meier’s Pirates!

Really it's a modern implementation of the classic pirates! series. It's over 10 years old but still holds up due to the cartoon art style. Land combat is greatly improved making it more strategic and make sense. Sea combat is virtually unchanged except you have different cannonball types. Sword combat is changed to become a reaction mini game. It's not worse or better, just different. The one major downside I hate is sneaking into towns. It's now a mini game instead of a random check, but the mini game is super boring and takes too long to do. Overall this game has a ton of achievements and can keep you occupied for hours. It's a lot of fun.

Holy moly. I'm way too exhausted to post a real review of this game, after i've binged on it for a good 5 hours. All in all it's a great game. Micromanagement was kept to the bare minimum, which makes the game flow like a neverending stream of quicksilver out of a teflon gravy boat. Fights are fun and tactical, as ist conguering trade outposts and the likes. The dancing minigame is not my favourite, although it doesn't really dampen the high you get by playing this game much at all. I much rather give my enemies a good whacking and make them walk the plank after boarding their ships. The graphics may not be crysis level, but they are colourful and bring the cartoonish pirate style across beautifully. The controls are responsive enough and do their job. One of the things i like the most about this game here is the sound design and music. Both are used sparingly and non-offensive in the best way possible. You get the odd music queue when sailing by ports and, of course, these queues are always referring to the nation they belong to. Sound effects, may the be sparingly used, are leveraged to their fullest potential. Soft winds blowing, calming sounds of the waves, sabers clanging against each other, rumbling canon shots, which smack into the enemy ship with full force, hurling crew and freight into the ocean, whooshing and screaming. I got this on a sale, but even at full price i would more than recommend this gem of a game!

being a pirate is not easy. but its a living. good and fun game with mini games.

This is a just a fun game. A fun game by the mind that brought us civilization, take on the Spanish Main and make you mark as a pirate lord.

Imagine this: this game is 20 years old and it was polished and perfected at launch. This sounds absurd today but it is true. It is easy to get into and it has a big sandbox game. The style is comic-like, rather suited for 7+ ages, no blood but some violence as in Pirates fighting. people knocked out, falling from ships etc. It is simply great. Many people have wrote about the gameplay, you owe it to yourself to play it once. And if you like it you will play it more. There is nothing else to be said. It is almost perfect even after such a long time.