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Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is so much fun! Whether it's cappturing ships with a frigate, or trading with a merchant, Sid has it all. It has a few bugs thow...
The Havana Curse-you can't leave the town of Havana
Warp Pool-You sometimes just get moved some where else
Fun-Throw all your other games away, you'll have no need for them anymore.

Sid Meier's Pirates!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A well-designed game that is relatively quick to learn - after one time through at the novice level, I moved right up to the highest difficulty level. Pirates! is capable of providing many hours of enjoyment without the need for a fancy interface or any memorization. Tasks are somewhat repetitive, however, so make sure that this product has a core concept you'd have fun with - experienced gamers will only need a few runthroughs to master the skills involved.

Pirates still fun after all these years.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had recently purchased a poor substitute from Atari a few months back, thinking it was the updated version of Sid Meier's classic game I used to play on the Sega or Commodore 64 as a kid. It soon became obvious that I had been saddled with a plastic paper weight. But it drove me to look a little harder for an updated version of Pirates!

Much to my surprise and delight Sid had indeed upgraded the game to a more modern version compatiable on the latest computers and operating systems. Like the original version which captivated my friends and I for hours at a time, this game delivers all the fun and excitement as the original with all the expected aspects of multiple game play from trader to diplomat to plunderer. The graphics are great, and the ease of play is fantastic. I would give this game a perfect rating but have only two misgivings, the dancing and swordplay interaction seem difficult and cumbersome on a numeric keypad.

However, if you are a better sailor and don't care for Governor's daughters anyway, than you may not have any problems at all, just a treasure chest of fun!! Live the Life!!!

Captain Blood.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a game is which the player is in charge of a ship and sets about the seas in search of his kidnapped family. You can become a privateer, a pirate, a trader, or anything in between. You can plunder ships or cities. You can also court Governor's daughters. There is a separate type of play for ballroom dancing, dueling, naval combat, land combat, navigating, treasure hunting, and more. The game is entirely open-ended. It has beautiful graphics, a wonderful story-line, and is much fun. So what is not to like? Well....

My main complaint is its lack of realism. It is not just the fact that when you stick a rapier into someone he only staggers back as if the blade is not sharp; the main problem is that nobody duels properly: Yourself and your opponents pull back blades before thrusting, and make absurdly large swings. There are lots of minor problems aside from that, but as a fencer who studies the history of dueling, that type of cartoon fighting will always irk me.

Fun For 10 Hours

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: July 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game is amazingly addictive for a short while, until the mini games get repetitive. Since the mini-games are 70 % of the game, there's no real point in playing this game more than once. Also, at the game-age of 32, it's SUPER DUPER hard to beat the boss on swashbuckler difficulty, for me at least.

Just Not That Good (Honest Review)

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: February 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After reading all the positive comments on both gamespot and amazon about this game, I ordered it through amazon with the highest expectations. The result: a very mediocre game that is very disconnected and frustrating.

I have a fascination with pirates, I've read several books on the "real" life pirates of the 16th and 17th centuries. While it's true that all the stuff you would want in a pirate game is present: buried tresure, swordfights, ship battles, land battles, etc. etc, each of these events are represented in their very own boring and most of the time, corny mini-game.

Actually navigating your ship is really frustrating. I still haven't figured it out. The wind blows in a certain direction, and if you are not headed in that direction your ship moves at a snails pace. It takes forever to get from one end of the map to the other. The rest of the minigames are either really boring or just plain corny. For example, one minigame involves dancing to impress the Governor's daughter. Dancing around like a fancy boy is not what being a pirate is all about, let's get real. Ship battles are cool, but if your ship is somewhat far apart from your enemy it's VERY difficult to get close to them. For some reason in the ship battle mode your ship doesn't really move at all.

The swordfighting is ok, but is pretty cheesy and gets boring very quickly while the land battles are excruciatingly slow. It's like moving chess pieces. Buried treasure I haven't even tried yet because the map they give you to find is very difficult to read.

All in all, I really don't understand the high reviews for this game. The game is VERY disconnected and just really not that fun. I do not recommend this game to anyone.

IMPORTANT INFO

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

VERY IMPORTANT. I love this game, but I must warn you there are 2 versions. The Atari and the 2K one. I have the Atari, and love it. I don't no how good the 2K is. Thanks

Pirates, great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

One of the best games I have played in a long time. The only thing I would like better is a bit more control over things, but its fun, and keeps you occupied for a long time.

Good game for family

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game to play with my kids. I admit that the repeat graphics and perdictability of the game tend to make it less exciting then other games I have played. But I contiue to play the game long after my kids have grown tired of playing. No gore or over the top violence. Not crazy about the overly busty bar wenches, for the kids. But beyond that I most enjoy raising an army of pirates and attacking the cities. FUN!

not too bad, worth $20

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played the orignal Commodore 64 game back in the 80s. That's why I bought this one. It is a fun little game, definetely worth $20. You could easily kill 3hrs playing this an not know it. It's not terribly exciting, and some parts could be done better. The pistol/double pistols you aquire do nearly nothing. The fighting anmimation is bright and colorful, like a dinsey cartoon. Having a longer time before your crew's morale drops so low you have to disband would be better. Also, even if I killed and looted another pirate, getting 30K worth of gold, my crew still hardly increased their morale.

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