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Good Graphics , Weak Combat.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pirates of Carribean is a moderatly fun game with richly detailed graphics in third person viewpoint. The weak part about the game is the combat. The attacks performed by your character (J.Sparrow) J.Depp and later on in tandem with Orlando Blooms Character, are pretty simple button mash combo sequence. You can press A for sword attack and X for punch attack .Also after filling up a portion of your finish meter you can perform a finishing kill by pressing the buttons that will flash on the screen ,to do a finish move you will see a prompt on screen telling you which button to press in sequence to perform a finish kill. Which always starts as Hold LT then the press or hold the corisponding button prompted on screen. Like this for example Hold LT. then press Y ,hold B. Or sometimes just hold Y . Whatever is on the screen ..very simular to Spiderman-3 button mashing cutscenes. The only problem with this is its way too easy to just kill an enemy by just pressing A (sword slash) over and over too kill about 90% of the enemies. While the other 10% require at least one finish kill to eliminate them. You also have a handgun with (get this) 3 bullets.woo hoo!! So authentic to that era..lol.you can kill an enemy with your eyes closed because of the auto-aim, hold LT. ... The A.I. is horribly easy to kill. One time I tested out to see if an enemy would hit me at all. And he just stood there circling me without even hitting me or even trying anything at all, and I was right in front of him, finally I just pressed A three times and he was dead, Lame very Lame. And these same enemies repeat themselves over and over, with some of them waiting there turn too fight me. Anybody who played ERAGON? well its nearly the same here in this game. With Pirates only being slightly less lame....Another combat form is when you meet a boss type character you go into 'DUEL' mode . The camera switches into side scroll mode simular to Mortal Combat. But thats where the comparison ends . There's 3 Circles on the left or right of the combatant . One being a high attack, oNe representing a mid attack, and one representing a low attack. Now get this when the circle turns grey its telling you in advance how the fighter is going to attack you so you can successfully block the attack (how polite), so if you see the upper circle turn grey you push left stick up. And if you make a successful block it will turn green .Or red if you dont. Well this feature takes away the fun out of it as your constantly looking at the 3 circles more than the fighters. Which makes it unbeliveable lame . Its nothing like Soul Caliber or a Mortal Combat at all. There are some great features about this game which are the graphics are pretty darn good. Some of the towns reminded me of Oblivion. And there are some great fog and lighting effects. And the cutscenes look quite good.The levels are pretty much straight forward linear, with a little back-tracking here and there. There are some puzzly type things, like you play an organ in a certain sequence to get Davy Jones's key. Its pretty much kindergarden-1st grade puzzles. Kids up too 13 will probably LOVE this game as the combat is very Eragon-ish. But at least the camera is fully controlable so there's no fighting characters off screen. The only side scroll is the easy as pie boss 'duels' . Johnny Depp character looks incredibly good . As well as the squid guy and the hammer head guy . The graphics are a very strong point in this game.Another nice thing is you can switch between Jack Sparrow and Orlando Bloom in combat and control both fighters. Another nice thing is the soul trap sword ,its a flaming green sword that traps enemies souls for whatever eason other than achievement points and high scores postings on LIVE . I hope there is a cheat soon where I could play the entire game with a flaming sword, because it only lasts for a short period and to recharge it you have to find and collect mummified heads. Also you can climb certain walls,ropes,ladders,ships masts when prompted too, which is pretty nice. It is a somewhat decent game in the adventure part but the easy as pie enemies will have hardcore gamers wishing for more, but the kiddes will love this game. Would I buy it? Nope. Only if I had young kids.

Disney strucken by Scurvy?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End is without a doubt the best looking Pirate game I have ever seen! And so it is to my utmost disappointment that the gameplay does not make use of such outstanding artwork. This "T" for Teen rated game follows the movie plot of Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest and the newly released Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End. The game takes players to many of the locations found in the two movies, such as Port Royal, Tortuga, Isla Cruces, Singapore, Davy Jones' Locker and of course the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman. Unfortunately, little to no room is given to explore or interact with these magnificent looking environments. Instead the game sends the player from one un-imaginative fight into the next, while collecting random objects for extra rewards along the way. Some jumping and balancing sections try to mix things up, but even these activities quickly become repetitive. Pirates requires absolutely no thinking because only one objective can be completed at a time and only one predefined path can be taken. The game offers two different Multiplayer games, where players can duel each other in a sword fight or battle in splitscreen mode with or against each other to defeat enemies. Overall Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End is (another) mediocre movie tie-in action game. Leaving a lot of potential but no follow through.

Entertaining and enjoyable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was fun when I got it I was looking forward to getting home and getting started and straight away you will notice that the graphics for this game are great I mean I thought that (and sorry if I spoil it for anyone)and the voices are really hard to tell the difference from the real cast ( but I do think the voice of barbossa was here not sure)I also thought that the battle seens where there are those real fast sword clashes were great.Faults:well trying to use your gun and throwing knives is impossible to aim even with a area filled with enemys.also flashing from character to character was a little annoying but at times it was fun.Overall:well a good thing about this game is that it isn,t a simple button masher it actually has a lot of combos such as being able to punch and throw them around I esplcially like the ability to knee people in the nuts so it was really fun. but with very minor faults no game is perfect

jack is back

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

featuring all new sword play mechanics and a well done story concerant with the movie the game is a real plast and one of the first video games produced exclusively by disney.

For the Priate In all of Us!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Priates 3 game is about as good as a pirate game that you can find. This game takes you thorugh some areas that the movie only touches and the dueling system once it was perfected was about as good as it can be. The only problem wit this game is that you feel as if you are limitted to the moves and the finishes that all the characters have. It does feel as if it was missing something to make it a creat game but I still enjoyed playing it.

It's a Double Negative

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This product is a double negative. It's so bad, it's good. That might seem strange, but I'll explain why in a minute.

This video games retells the events in the last two Pirates of the Caribbean movies. However, if you're serious about the story, skip this. This video game doesn't retell the story very accuratly. Only half of the plot details happened in the movie.

As for graphics, I agree with the other reviewers. The animation is not glitchy and looks very nice. However, Jack Sparrow's peculiar movements looked more entertaining in the movie. In this game, Jack Sparrow looks over animated; like he's too drunk to stand up (but miraculously talk straight). Other than that, nice graphics. For a game developed for a fast release, it certainly looks pretty.

Now we get to the big question. Gameplay... The gameplay is seriously boring. Serious video gamers will be un-entertained and would rather play Halo. However, people who have had bad days will love this game. If you want a game that is easy to play and win, you can play this. If you've overworked your brain in the office, you can come home and let this game play itself for you. This game is a stress reliever.

If you're a serious video gamer, than done bother renting this. However, if you do get a copy, save it for a very miserable day.

meh

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game on xbox 360 because I had a lot of fun playing it with my sister on wii. It is not the same. I found it was difficult, and boring. The graphics are better on 360, and that was kind of cool, but I am not even sure if its the same storyline. I know for sure there are things in the xbox version I never saw on the wii (and vis versa). I recommend renting this first to see if its your kind of thing or not. Don't waste the money without trying it out.

break out the feather duster here comes the dust

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 15
Date: May 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Every once in a while my wife will get into a video game. Usually its something to do with harry potter or lord of the rings. She wanted to try out "At worlds end" for the 360.

I told her it would be dumb and stupid, but she insisted. I bought the game on May 22, the day it came out for $65. Its now May 28th and the game is collecting much dust.

On my next trip to gamestop this will be a trade in

Pretty and very BORING!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

WOW! I was hoping this game wouldn't be as bad as people said. It really sucks! No fun at all. Pretty to look at on my 1080p-but that's it. Fun-factor = 3/10 Glad I only paid 37.00 for it. In a nutshell, if you're under 15 yrs old, you will love this game! If not, spit on it. What a waste.

Best looking game I've ever played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Honestly, I purchased this game not expecting much, I mean really most pirate games are horrible to play and or look at... This game just blew me away with its high definition graphics on my hdtv 52 inch screen. I own Oblivion,Resistance fall of man and Bio shock and they can't compare to this games graphics... The sword duel during the maelstrom is well worth the price of the whole game.

The sword fighting and duels are fun and interesting and require more attention than mindless button mashing.

My only problem is the game is over to quick, waaaay to quick. I really wish it were more open ended like Oblivion to give it more replay value.

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