This is really an excellent development on Sid Meier's Pirates! formula and I've spent hundreds of hours playing it. It now has skills, companions, randomized missions and several proper questlines; also you're no longer just a ship and can roam around in human form. Though thankfully the dance minigame didn't make it here. Be warned however, it is not newbie friendly in the slightest: interface is somewhat odd, you really should check the manual to get how some things work; any first time player can forget about setting difficulty above easiest because even "normal" is quite brutal; and campaign start as Peter Blood is not a tutorial you'd probably expect, but a fairly tough advanced start scenario.
