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"Good Game Overall"
2009-07-06
- Reviewed By User: AS6NMNRJSAPFT
I've been playing this game since 2006, and it's one of the most enjoyable games I've played. The one thing I dislike is that you can't customize how your character looks. Otherwise it's a good game. I've really enjoyed it.
"Disappoints"
2009-05-25
- Reviewed By User: A2W7WQKWR3V4KZ
On the plus side the game is a good simulation of the economics of the Carribean and piracy in general. However the CONs are severe. Very quickly calling in ports becomes tedious. I rapidly came to wish I could automate courting Governor's daughters and selling loot. While occasionally the ability to board and duel won a ship that I might not otherwise have taken, the repetitious sequences and settings got dull fast. If dueling and role playing were enhanced this would be a much more interesting game.
"Good, however..."
2009-05-23
- Reviewed By User: A2DO503Q47WA7G
Disclaimer: I run Windows 98 with a Pentium III processor. Pros: 1. There aren't a lot of pirate games out there. This one fills the void. 2. The sea battle are quite well done, though I wish an option was there for you to command multiple ships. 3. The swordfighting and land battle features.
Cons: 1. Swordfights are always the same thing repeated over and over and over again. In addition, at least on my computer, swordfights come in two speeds: fast, and slow as molasses in January--and the speed sometimes changes. 2. Going into town: the same thing over and over and over and over and over again. 3. Land battles: the same battle over and over again.
But it's a fairly good game, if you can take repetitiveness.
Sid Meier's Pirates is a mixed bag. The game is fun to play for a few days, but it's incredibly short and with little replay value unless you enjoy doing the same thing over and over again. It promises exploration and excitement, but delivers long periods of waiting for the wind to pick up and propel your war galleon across the sea. It supposedly has four different time periods of piracy to play in, but the only difference is in the level of fun, not difficulty or content. You get to swordfight with scurvy pirate captains, sneak into towns, attack towns and install new governors, trade goods, attack ships, buy items, recruit crew members, search for treasure and your long lost family, and even ballroom dance. The main problem is that every aspect of the game is simplified to its basic elements and rendered repetitious.
In the long run, the game is best for gamers who don't like to spend a lot of time on games. Pirates is fairly easy to play for a few minutes and come back to whenever you want without having to remember a lot of details. Unfortunately for me, the repetitious nature of the game has become far too tedious.
"Fun but with a few faults"
2007-08-12
- Reviewed By User: A73VK2CKT2RM6
This game is AWESOME when you first start playing it. The graphics and colors are excellent. It is alot of fun swordfighting, blasting cannons at ships, and many others. I wish there could of been a multiplayer feature built in to play with or against a buddy. I wish there wa smore to romancing the daughters also. I wish the top 10 pirates were a little more harder to catch as well. Once you find them and kill them, the challenege of finding them is gone and they are dead forever. It would of been nice to allow them to escape a few times or allow you to maroon them or walk a plank or something.
Overall the game is a B+ and is a good buy.
"Awsme for a day!"
2007-03-08
- Reviewed By User: A3W0Z8U2DSX2L4
If you get a chance to rent the PSP or XBox version do that, or wait till the game costs about the same as a rental because it's only fun for about day or 2 and then becomes very repetitious and boring.
When I first started playing the game I was amazed by the interactivity of the ocean, but soon became annoyed by the endless tiresom traveling from one city to another just to find the next part of a map. Everything looks the same and blends together after the first 3 hours of playing.
All in all, it's a great game to rent or pay less then $5 for, but don't buy it for $20.
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"Good Game Overall"
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