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This game is a demo

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: February 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I say that this game is a demo because it is clearly was released six months before completion. The bugs and glitches are multitude. We have become used to seeing games released before they are totaly de-bugged but this (believe me) is the record. Buggs aside, the main problem is that the game has not even been completed--it is a rough sketch of a possibly great art work. Perhaps 50% of the scenarios fuction reasonably correctly (excluding the bugs). If you have Voodoo 3 don't buy this untill its Voodoo problems are sorted out (check the message boards at the Talonsoft website). In fact, if you have been eagerly awaiting this game , check out the message boards over the next few weeks (or possibly months) and wait untill a completed, functional version of this product is available. I suspect the problems may be too large to fix with four or five downloads.

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: February 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was so looking forward to this game. However, when I got it there were more bugs in it than under my refrigerator. First i couldnt play a battle without the game locking up. Second, you seemed to be unable to load saved games (which are a must in the campaigns)just getting a saved file processing error message over and over again. There is nothing more frustrating than to go two or three battles into a campaign and then having to start all over again! Another thing is the commercials for other talonsoft games (that look pretty crappy) every time you boot up or shut down the game- very tacky. Otherwise, the graphics and battle interface were fantastic and the ship modeling top rate. Too bad it didnt come together in the game

EXTRA! TITANIC DISASTER EXTRA!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: April 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Whenever possible, I always try a demo of the game in question. A veteran gamer, I like all sorts of games. I'd heard of the game Sea Dogs, but they didn't have any demos, just movies. So I heard about this Age of Sail game and it LOOKED good. But in the morning after my download, well, the rest as they say, is history. First and foremost, there was no help or even a readme file. I know that the full game will have help and documentation, but the fact of the matter is this: a really well-made game shouldn't be so hard that you HAVE to have a help file, etc. On the game screen, the icons were really small, but even worse, you couln't tell what each picture was trying to portray. Is that a picture of a cannon or a crossbow? What's up with the 4 arrows--shooting direction, or ship direction? When you click on something, it's not like you got any positive feedback. In most games, if you press up, you go forward--simple as that. Not so here. Guns fire for seemingly no apparent reason, ships sail around aimlessly. There are also clipping problems. Ships don't collide, they go THROUGH each other. It's probably fixed in the full game, though--or is it? I'll give them 1 star for the graphics--the ships were really detailed (no sailors on deck, though)as were the islands. The ocean needed lots of improvement, though. Just a blue field that barely moves. Also, I like how you can see the ships sink--they don't just disappear. This is a game for the patient. As for action, the battles aren't all that colorful and exciting--puffs of white smoke. If you want a fast-paced, hard, action-packed sailing game, try Shipwreckers! (PC and Playstation). If you like more strategy in your game, try Sea Dogs--even though I haven't played it, the movie demo of it looked pretty good. Bottom line: Spend your money somewhere else--you deserve better.

Don't buy it !!! Too Many Bugs !!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I tried this on two computers, and could not get it to work. I am sure it could be wonderful, but I will never know. My computers have never had a serious problem with any games before. Both computers meet the requirements. Yet everytime I started a battle or campaign they locked up in seconds. I tried reducing the graphics with no luck. Good luck to you if you buy it.

Its always better on the outside of the box

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: October 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Listen when i bought this game i thought it was going to be the best game i have ever played i was way off the graphics are absolutely amazing and i must admit blasting the hell out of an inosent ship thats running away isnt bad eather but the AI is terrible the ships running and keeping of before and after a battle arent realistic enough.Ill tell you what they should of done they should of had a guy go on a real man of war or a big sail boat and for him to study the way it moves around how you work it how to keep the ship what jobs to assign to people it would make it three times more realistic.And they also could of
allowed you to build like you take over a city you become the ruler of it ectectect well thats my thoughts but i truth DO NOT
BUY THIS GAME not a blockbuster game.

I like winning, but only if it's a challenge.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ever since reading the Hornblower series as a kid, I have searched for a game that would allow me to reenact the excitement of naval battles in the big wooden sailing ships. This game does allow me to do that, but only to a very limited extent. The game's AI is pathetic. Enemy ships consistently run aground. Enemy captains always try to run from battle. Ship-to-ship action turns into a 2-D dogfight, with the enemy ship trying to turn away from you, consistently presenting you her stern to rake with repeated broadsides. Actually paying attention to sailing your vessel is not even a concern. Ships never fail to tack (i.e., a ship will never hang in the stays, even if its lost a mast). There doesn't appear to be any accounting for which vessel is more weatherly. This game is no challenge at all. Part of the allure of the naval battles of this time period is the skill required to successfully lead one of these highly unmaneuverable ships into battle and to victory, this game completely fails to bring the user that experience.

do not buy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Great concept! Wonderfull research! Spectacular graphics! Unfortunately the game was released in a state of only partial completion. It is about forty percent finished. Buggy as hell and essentialy unplayable.

Disapointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game does the initial load up,but will not load scenarios.

End of story, no game play possible !!

I'd love to say this was a great game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

...however it doesn't load.
Like the previous comment, I can get the game loaded but the scenarios never load. I tried letting the computer run all night in an effort to load a scenario, but to no avial.

Something is obviously wrong. At first I though it was my computer. I tried to run it on the other three computers in the house with the same results.

The patch has been of no use.

I'm just grateful to find out there is nothing wrong with my computer.

***addendum***

I exchanged the game for another copy of the same game. The results were the same.

So there is something obviously wrong with the program.

Frustratingly buggy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 17
Date: March 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As several reviewers have noted, this game has a lot of potential. It's visually nice, has tons of scenarios and flexibility, and is probably about as authentic as such a game can be. But it doesn't work. It often fails to load games properly, the game often freezes the computer (a P4, so it's not an old computer), and various key options--like manual firing--don't always work. Further, Talon Soft tech support was useless--they merely said to get new drivers for the graphics card, which was clearly not the problem. The game says it is Win Me ready, but it's not. I keep checking for new updates to see if they fix any of this, but the .1 update out so far doesn't do a bit of good. Until it's fixed, I find the game unplayable and I feel ...

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