... and it can't make naval action engaging and fun. Everything is dull — the graphics, the combat, trading, etc. The game looks like it's a poor Android port (and I won't be surprised if it's actually true, even though I'm too lazy to check). The ships look terrible, there is nothing even close to real physics; sometimes your ship will simply dive in the waves, becoming completely covered by water (and then it will emerge back like nothing happened). Crewmen look like animated wooden manquins, they have no voice other than couple of repetitive screams when raising sails. Movement controls are bad, they're simply too responsive and you can't "feel" the ship you're controlling. Weird skill system where one type of skill completely blocks another: your ship can either be fast OR maneuverable, not both at the same time, even though skill points are so hard to asquire. Extremely boring boarding action, I can't believe someone managed to make such fun activity so bad. Only one type of crew can actually TRAVEL to enemy ship to slash them with a cutlass; as a result, boarding action is simply 2 ships standing close, while crewmen shoot each other. This, multiplied by enormous HP pools of crewmen, leads to extremely boring "minigame" which can last for as long as 10 MINUTES! And even if you clearly see you're going to lose, there is no option to surrender and skip the 10 minutes fight, you must either wait until all your crew dies, or Alt+F4 the game. There are some things I really liked (for example, the crew class system, where every type of crew from "Greenhand" to "Pirate" has some interesting abilities during boarding), but most of them are ruined by eveything else. Verdict: this game managed to make one of the most exciting parts of human history boring, repetitive and ugly. It's very unlikely that developers will manage to fix at least one out of three problems, so I don't recommend this game.
