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Arrrr!!! This game walks the plank.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Is this Sid Meiers work? Coulda fooled me. A very limited in gameplay rehash of the highly fun and original Pirates done in a Fisher Price kinda world. Nobodys nation ever gets mad at you for attacking their vessels, so for example you can sink a hundred British traders and the Guvnor of any British colony will still recieve you rather then putting a price on your head. The tasks are rather mundane and repetitive, get the Governor to this Island, help the Abbots out with their problem, and in the end you really dont care wether you do or you dont. Its that underwhelming. Not fun as a fun game and definetly a downward step from the original. 2 stars only because its near Christmas and you must be charitable

A slight disapointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: June 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I went to the store and got this game, (obviously knowing it wouldn't be realistic, pirates lives weren't very fun) expecting a game where I could walk around with a sword and a gun killnig things. Then I could get in a ship and blast a couple defensless sloops of the face of the map. Not so. You have little control over your character, and the ship battles are always short, as firing your cannons constantly is suicide, the main tactic: Board and fight the captain. The sword fights are an extra complex game of Rock Paper Scissors, three attack moves, chop slash and thrust. Chop beats slash, thrust beats slash and thrust, and slash beats nothing. See the dilema? There is a worthless parry for each of those, but that's it. The only reason you win is bcause the AI reflexes are slow, and they attack 2 seconds after you. The only other thing of interest is romance, and the dancing (only way to romance) is repetitive and aggravating. Overall, I'd say go get POTC and mod it to death.

So many games within a game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Sid Meier has come up with another in a long list of absorbing games that take over your life and leave you imagining yourself plotting your fortunes on the high seas. Dancing is fun and quite straight forward once you learn to read the hand movements. Swordplay can be tricky, trying to read your opponent and counter appropriately. And sailing around capturing ships and plotting profitable trade routes is action adventure fun. Along with that are a whole bunch of quests to attempt. Overall, I love this game as it truly has a an easy inital learning curve but with whole depths that require time to master the different features.

Excellent Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Off the top, I'll tell you why you won't want to buy it : It isn't a multiplayer game. With most all the famous games - EverCrack 2, World of WoW!, etc. out, multiplay is what most games concentrate on. Pirates is a single play adventure, make no mistake.

With that out of the way, I'd like to say that I loved the game. While it can seem to get a little repetitive, that's probably lack of imagination. More than likely. The game allows you to pick a name, and, after the first game, your major skill, year, and starting nationality. Mind you, just because you start as English doesn't mean you can't raid the English. This is not a strict historical simulation. The movements are fairly exaggerated, making it not much of a sim altogether, except in the geographical sense. The towns are where they should be. Some tasks can be fairly hard, but nothing that can't be conquered by putting your mind to it. The game lets you choose your future to a very wide point. The only real restrictions is that you must stay in the Carribean, and you can't become a mass murderer of civilians. Excellent replay value! I played the original Pirates way back when, and loved it. This game is simply a modern version, with a few more features.

fun at first, but gets repetitive real quick

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First off, i'm a big fan of Sid Meier. I've played pretty much all his games, from Alpha Centuari, all the Civilizations, and his Civil War games, but I have to say that Pirates is mediocre at best and more than a little disapointing.

The game starts off great, however after playing for about 15 minutes you've pretty much done everything there is to do. The rest of the game is just repeating it over and over again.

Attacking ships, dancing with the governors daughter, dueling with captains, it all gets old real quick. There is also one feature that makes no sense whatsoever. When you board an enemy ship the only factor that determines if you win or not is if you defeat the enemy captain in a duel. You can have a ship of 30 pirates attacking 300 soldiers and it makes no difference since they dont actually fight eachother and all you have to do is defeat the enemy captain and you automatically capture the ship.
Also the duels are incredibly easy. I think in the entire time i've played Pirates i've lost 1 or 2 duels, and this was on the hard setting. It was a major anticlimax when I defeated Blackbeard in the first 20 minutes of the game in a duel that lasted about 30 seconds.

The only strong points of the game are the ship battles, and the free roaming environment. If I could change this game I would do the following things: 1.get rid of the cartoony feeling and make the game more gritty like a real pirate atmosphere would have been. 2. actual boarding battles instead of some cheesy duel 3. Be able to make and customize your own pirate. I didnt like the generic "hero" of the game, and the plot was a lame "rescue your family" story.

I've had this game for one day and am already bored of it and will probably never play it again. Yes it's that boring and repetitive..

My all time favorite game is here once again

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a dream come true! I have hoped that Pirates would once again be available, and Atari has answered my prayers. I have kept my old computer around just so I could play Pirates. I, too, can not count the hours I happily played this great game. Now, once again I can plunder the Spanish Main, with cannons blazing, swords flashing, booty so seek, and beautiful maidens to court. I love the open ended play of this classic, where you decide to which port you sail, which treasure you plunder, and what destiny you make for your self. This is, truly, one game which is worth every piece of eight they are asking. If you love making your own adventure, the PIRATES! is your game.

Fun for an hour or so.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Id never played any of the previous incarnations of this highly rated game. I ordered it for Christmas. Id read that it was simple yet involving and was looking forward very much to getting to grips with it.

It was enjoyable for about the first hour or so. Ship to ship battles were fun at first..maybe because I kept winning them, and the crunch of the enemy ship collapsing as your cannon-balls fly into them was oddly rewarding.

However it soon got boring. The ship fighting was too easy and too repetative, as was the fencing which is pretty almost like a rock paper scissors system, you have three attacks - a high - medium and low and three defences, again high medium and low, it is basically a case of choosing and attack defence and hoping to beat the other guys choice or time it better - you only have to hit an enemy about three consecutive times to win and you cant move around unless you are moved back as a result of being hit.

The dancing is just a case of hitting the number pad key that it tells you too when it tells you to. Again extrememly repetative and soon tedious.

Trading again left much to desire. There are only half a dozen commodoties to trade in, and the prices vary so little and you can hold such few stocks that you make very little and have to do the same trips back and forth to the same places just to earn a tiny profit.

There are far from enough upgrades for ships, maybe perhaps 6-8 and none of them offer much in the way of improving your ship or the gameplay.

As I said it was fun for the first hour max, but it soon became tedious so much so I think I will be re-selling it on ebay.

Now if they made the game world much, much bigger and maybe even randomised, increased the customisable element of the game with a much larger range of ships and upgrades and made it multiplayer so that there is actually some risk to your ships and loot it would be a much better game. But until then, im done with it.

Pirates has 0 replay value

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: April 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

That is my main gripe. After playing it for a day or two it gets to be very repetitive and dull. The sword fights and dancing are nothing but DDR w/o the catchy songs or flashy lights. Want to build a fleet large enough to take over the world? Good luck as you have to dump your crew and pick up a brand new one quite often. The main character hardly deserves to be called a pirate, he looks like a baby faced pansy. Since when did pirates start wearing such a clean cut look? Where is his parrot, his scar's, I want to hear him say ARRRR!! The reviews are almost right, you can do almost anything you want in this game, except be a pirate.

Practice makes Perfect

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A great game! Pillage and plunder at it's best. But you have to do something with all that loot you take.

Spend some of it on those fancy dancing boots and a big ring for the governor's daughter if you get the chance.

Before you know it, those governor's daughters will be giving you presents!

Doesn't work on many systems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This does not work on any of my systems. There is absolutely Zero customer support for this item. They will not answer their help line or their emails. Be Very Careful if you plan to buy this as a gift. It seems like it would be fun if it only worked.

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