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Jun 13 2007
Sid Mier's Pirates! Review
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| Summary: Using the most important elements of games to there full potential 2K was able to make a highly addictive game.
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Sid Meier's Pirates is a truly intelligent game that combines smart game elements to create something addictive that will get you hooked for hours.
Although starting with low excitement you'll enter the pure fun of this game in a few minutes. In this game you create a pirate and are off fighting off different people for the sake of the many quests you must fulfill. The great thing is that there are many ways to choose how difficult your game will be; your experience, the time period you start in, and your home country(France England Spain Holland) all impact the difficulty of your custom game. So after you have chosen all the specific information about your pirate you can begin to sail.
I might also like to mention that you should get use to sailing, because you'll be doing a lot of it. When you're not sailing I'll tell you about what you can do. First let's discuss towns. In a town there are quite a few things to do. All the things help towards a very strategic game. This is a list of what you'll be doing: Speaking with the governor, visiting the tavern, trading, any related ship activities, and dividing the plunder. When speaking with the governor you'll end up doing such things as missions, dancing with his daughter, and being upgraded in rank. In the tavern you'll find yourself recruiting soldiers, taking to strangers who will tell you interesting things, speaking with the bar maid who may also aid you, and talking to the bartender who will introduce you to enemies and aid you. The rest is self explanatory.
Now let's talk about the fighting system. There are ship, sword and town battles. Ship battles will find you shooting cannon balls at an enemy. Sword battles will pair you up against a captain of your crew and you must get all the momentum, by preforming various attacks. The town battles is a simple strategy army thing. The rest of the mini games are dancing and sneaking around. Dancing is a simpler form of what we call DDR. The sneaking around is quite a fun mini game were you must dodge guards to get to a certain goal. Now I've finished explaining the game play so let's move on to the graphics. The game also presents itself really well in the graphics department. The graphics are honestly like those of the Ps2. You'll be surrounded by very detailed, yet clear backgrounds. There are many trees and other things that make that certain place look like what it is. While sailing you will see the water shining realistically with both individual sparkles and large amounts of water exploding with sunlight . The people also look very nice. They all wear detailed clothing on which you can see every little wrinkle and shaded area. Really the visual helps suck you into the game, especially if there are many scenarios you have not yet seen. So now it is time for the weak point of the game. Do you like various boring music from the 1600's NO? That's what thought and although there are many different songs in the game, none of them are quite good... At all. You'll simply be listening to really really old instrumental stuff, and thats not fun. However the music does manage to fit the scenario, and maybe some music lovers will like it (highly unlikely). So the summary of the game??? well its highly addictive and although there are serious musical flaws you are still getting alot for your money.
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06/18/07
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overachiever
| Maryland USA
Good review! Now I want this game even more. It's just the matter of getting around to buy it. I remember it being released somewhere for $19.99. Do you have any idea where that was? If so, I'd imagine it still is. Oh, by the way, this game has had points detracted by some sources because you're doing the same things over and over. Does it get boring?
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06/20/07
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Mokeys
| British Columbia Canada
overachiever said: "Good review! Now I want this game even more. It's just the matter of getting around to buy it. I remember it being released somewhere for $19.99. Do you have any idea where that was? If so, I'd imagine it still is. Oh, by the way, this game has had points detracted by some sources because you're doing the same things over and over. Does it get boring?"
The sources were very right, once you play through one career as a pirate, you probably will only play 1 or 2 more times, but it is really fun the first time.
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