For the time the original game released the content may be pretty good. But 2004 or now 2016 it´s just well... Repetitive and simple. The "dancing part" is just a QTE so nothing to remember and after the 2nd time it really sucked for me. Similar thing with the fights against an enemy captain, but if you want the ship you need to do it over and over again. The trading system is pretty basic but does its job, for me its maybe too basic to become a merchant. The battles with your ship/s are again so simple that i can simply not enjoy them... at first they are a little bit tricky with your first pretty weak ship but after you get your first propper ship and a fleet the only thing you have to be careful with is the wind... If the "aiming system" would be better... The quests are the most interesting part in my opinion. Collecting info about the other great pirates and looking for them on the map (they are not marked) is fun for a time but as always in this game so simple if you found one of them its pretty much the same deal with all the others. If you want to hunt some treasures it works pretty much like the pirates. If you have the map to the chest you need to find it on your own. You also can attack cities via land and you have to play a little round base skirmish with melee and ranged units, wich you also can hide in jungle fields on the battlefield. All in all simple but fun. I just could not play this game long enough to say something about the family part so sorry for that but i´m pretty sure that you need to collect info again (with dancing...). All in all that game got me bored after 3 hours (played on steam). But i am also a fan of more complex titles normally so it is not that big of a surprise. But i wanted to point these things out for people (like i was) who don´t know this game, what they are actually buying. Cause on paper this game has massive content, but most of it is just there and you wont look at it with your ass.
