Alright, I give this game a 3.5 really. this game is a pretty decent naval combat game. The controls are fine, although it is very obvious that fast ships are very much better than heavy ships. 55000 gold ship you can get is a complete rip off due its slow speed not being worth its armor, although its number of cannons are nice. Being able to out manuver enemy canons is too critical for it to be worth it, especially since the right guns and bullets and level ups can bridge the gap ez. Which is a shame, because Man-O-Wars are awesome on paper, but completely impractical. Add onto the fact that you are a pirate, and thus, probably chasing your prey means you don't wanna be waddling through the sea like a fat dude in a floaty. Ass you progress through the game, eventually it wants you to collect and manage territory. Thats a well and good concept to have, but to do this you are essentially spawn camping the A.I. While you are attacking the settlements local fort, which has four cannons plus a few optional watch towers (each of which is armed with a cannon that will blow holes in your Man-O-War, which is too slow to avoid said cannons), the town that it is linked to does not stop spawning boats by the boatload. There are two enemy factions. One spawns ships that arn't immedtialy hostile to you unless you fire on them. They will ignore you attacking their fort, but will go ham if a stray shot goes their way. But the real problem is that they are trying to squeeze passed you through the narrow water ways that connect the town (there is one particular town north east of Kings Fortress that is really bad about this), and while they don't turn hostile for simply bumbing into them, you are essentially trying to dodge artillery fire whilst in a traffic jam on the highway. Hard? Sure. Frustating? definitly. if the blue boys over at Kings Fortress take that settlement, in which case every boat spawning out of that town is immediatly hostile to you. I have more to say but word-
