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awsome game but alittle repetitive but still cool

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game kicks serious.... well you know. It is alittle repetitive but still awsome. The only thing I wish is that you could use exploding cannon balls on enimy ships.

GREAT FUN

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: October 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Love this game. My nephew is always playing it at my house, so I got him his very own Sid Meier's Pirates for Xmas.

Fun..for 10 minutes

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: April 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe people are rating this so high. This game is by far the MOST REPETATIVE VIDEO GAME OUT THERE. Literally, all the swords fights are the same, all the ship battles are the same. After about 10 minutes you find yourself just sailing around doing nothing. You can experience EVERYTHING the game has to offer in 5 short minutes. Here is how:
1. Go to the bar
2. Hire some guys
3. Sail around destroy some ships
4. Upgrade ship
5. Take over Island
6. Dance

Thats it! You did everything, the more you play its all the same. Rinse, lather, repeat. And in general Sid Meiers games are highly repetitive and overated.

Didn't get a chance to play it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: November 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I know others have written about this but someone needs to mention it again so it's in the latest reviews. This game did not work for me. It kept crashing 10 minutes into the game. My computer has all the right system requirements and I tried all of the recommended fixes. Apparently it's a common problem and a lot of us contacting support were unable to get help or solve the problems...(which are many, even with the patch..or latest version). I'm sure it's a good game but I wish I had seen the reviews about the issues because I wouldn't have bought it and spent the HOURS and HOURS of trying to get it to work.

A must have for any gamer!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: December 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good game! There are lots of ships to sail, and many things to do. You can attack and board ships,(of course) be a trader, dig up buried treasure, hunt down your lost family's captor, or even raid a city. There are many special items you can aquire, each with a differt perpose. You can dance with Governer's daughters, and even mary them if you dance well enough. Overall: a very good game that is actually rated "E". The only complaint is the price, but that is always high.

First-rate

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: February 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are wonderful and the girls are lovely. We old men appreciate pretty girls. I first played this game on a K-pro years and years ago. I enjoyed that rudimentary version and am delighted with the latest one.

Pirates Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: August 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't have tons of games, but I think the "pretend-talk" in which the characters mumble is very annoying. It's an ok game, but I was expecting a lot more for the price.

Sid Meier's Pirates

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 35
Date: February 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

'Sid Meier's Pirates! Live the Life' is an expensive game. It was thus a shock to find the discs in a card folder instead of the customary protective box. Worse came when I played my first game and found the characters speaking in gobbledygook. I found this so unpleasant that I switched off all background sound rather than suffer it a moment longer. But the worst point of all came with the Governor's thoroughly unpleasant racist slurs. I find the terms “evil Spanish”, “slimy French” and “greedy Dutch” so objectionable that I would not have obtained the game at all had I known they were there. Sadly, the only way of avoiding them is not to visit the Governors at all and play without troubling about the peculiar mixture of military rank and patents of nobility.

The game has a number of changes from 'Pirates! Gold', not all of them felicitous. The interactive scenes in town, the captain's cabin and the treasure cave have been replaced largely by lists reminiscent of old style text adventures. It seems no longer possible to marry the merchant's daughter and so obtain preferential trading terms. And to win the heart of a governor's daughter one must learn to dance! I accept this is appropriate to the historical period and would not object if there were a way round it. But as it is I find this feature unacceptable. So marriage, which I much enjoyed in 'Pirates! Gold'. Is no longer available to me.

But to be fair, Sid Meier's genius is still apparent in this new version of his classic game. I have very much enjoyed the part which I do play, and I shall probably play that part many times more. The graphics is astounding, particularly weather and sea effects; the music is delightful; and the background sound (apart from dreadful speech) is very good indeed. I like the addition of many additional villages, Jesuit missions, and a mysterious character in the taverns who offers information and artifacts, some of which are even quite useful in a piratical career. The barmaids are suitably attractive, though one can no longer spend a pleasant evening with one, the barkeeper is a sly old nuisance who acts mainly as a marriage broker for governor's daughters (and is therefore ignored) and there is a bullying captain of the guard on whom one can practice one's sword-play. The battle scenes on land and sea are excellently portrayed.

'Pirates! Gold' was one of the most fun games I have ever played. Had I given it a rating at the time it would have been 4 (even 5) stars for entertainment value, use of available technology and value for money. 'Sid Meier's Pirates! Live the Life' is only partly in the same category, though Sid Meier's genius does shine through. I rate it as 3 stars for adults, but I would not like to see it played by children without clear parental supervision.

So good you may crave it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an awsome game. Simple, but awsome. Find tresure fight sea battles, plunder ships and then take the ship for your own. Trade, buy sell, whatever tickles your fany.

WOW WHAT A GAME!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of sega's Pirates Gold then this is most definetly the game for you! Best game I've played in years!!!!!!!!! A must buy for pirate fans!!!!!!!!!!

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