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can't dance

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: September 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

although I've never won a dance this game is enjoyable. pirates, was the 1st pc game i had and yhis new verssion was like takin g a walk back it time.

Good clean fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: October 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for myself but now I have to fight my two boys for game time. Good solid game play that can entertain for more than just a week.

No game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Amazon shipped us the wrong game. Our son was very disappointed. It appeared online that they had the game for our version of Microsoft but we received a game we couldn't use. When we called Customer Support they said they didn't carry the game for our version of Microsoft, after all.

Pirates? Yes. Repetitve? Yes.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It could have been better. Sid Meier is a fantastic game-maker, and I hear the original was great. This is apparently a decent remake, however the repetition starts to grate upon you after your fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth time around. It's true that you can increase difficulty, which makes it a bit better, but still....Fights are very scripted and end ususally the same way. Dancing and socializing is more like playing "Simon Says." Perhaps this is why Pirates! went extinct on the high seas so many years ago? They all fell asleep at the wheel and were lost at sea....

Updated yet still classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played the original Pirates! when it first game out. It rapidly became one of my favorite games of all time due to the easy to learn gameplay, engaging story, and open ended style of gameplay. I'm pleased to report that this version has kept all of the elements of the original intact while capitalizing upon the improvements in technology. The only part of the game that I found unecessarily difficult was the dancing -- it is designed to use the arrow keys on the number pad, which my laptop does not have. Otherwise, great game!

Fun while it lasted

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: June 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I pre-ordered this game thinking it would be great ,based on the reviews. It was realy fun at first ,but soon became boring and monotaenous .I'd recomend buying it used as I don'think it's worth the sticker price ,but it is fun.

Good Pirate Battling

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: July 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I LOVED this game years ago and am so glad to see it updated for modern windows environments. Really sucks up the resources so be sure your machine is up to date, but hours (and hours) of fun (but not for my wife)!!!!

Awsme for a day!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you get a chance to rent the PSP or XBox version do that, or wait till the game costs about the same as a rental because it's only fun for about day or 2 and then becomes very repetitious and boring.

When I first started playing the game I was amazed by the interactivity of the ocean, but soon became annoyed by the endless tiresom traveling from one city to another just to find the next part of a map. Everything looks the same and blends together after the first 3 hours of playing.

All in all, it's a great game to rent or pay less then $5 for, but don't buy it for $20.

Just like old times...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Just like the Pirates game I remember. Thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining.

First, a tip about the crashing: I had the same problems that other people experienced with the game crashing...almost every minute. It was bad enough that the game was unplayable. However, through trial and error, I found that with the right video settings within the game, the crashing goes away. I think the setting that helped the most was Object Detail, but I'm not sure on that. I haven't played around with it to figure out what fixed it (and I'm hesitant to fool with it now). The only drawback is that I had to turn the detail UP, which slowed things down on my system (not a top-of-the-line machine).

Misc thoughts/comments:
- Excellent recreation of the original game, but better with improved graphics and some new features.
- Easy to learn gameplay, but still challenging. Strikes a good balance in my opinion.
- Repetitive, as others have pointed out. However, as addictive as games can be these days, I need something that's easy to turn off.
- Despite some repetitive aspects there is a decent variety of things you can do and freedom to pick the direction you want to go in.
- A bit on the buggy side, which is disappointing. The crashing flat out shouldn't happen, and I've noticed some other bugs here and there.

All in all, it met my expectations!

Fun but with a few faults

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is AWESOME when you first start playing it. The graphics and colors are excellent. It is alot of fun swordfighting, blasting cannons at ships, and many others. I wish there could of been a multiplayer feature built in to play with or against a buddy. I wish there wa smore to romancing the daughters also. I wish the top 10 pirates were a little more harder to catch as well. Once you find them and kill them, the challenege of finding them is gone and they are dead forever. It would of been nice to allow them to escape a few times or allow you to maroon them or walk a plank or something.

Overall the game is a B+ and is a good buy.

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