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addicting as pot

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: July 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is so addicting when I f irst started playing this game I thought it sucked the graphics were kind of cartoony but after i played for like 15 minutes i couldnt stop there is so much to do in this game. you can do missions get married capture ships piss of countries by sinking their ships kill pirates plunder and pillage my favorite or a bunch of other stuff this is the true pirate experiance

Sid Meier missed the mark on this one

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

Pirates! would have been good about 10 years ago. But the graphics are sub-par, the gameplay is terrible (swordfights are basicly a series of A A A X A A A), the story is hokey, and you spend most of your time doing missions which are carbon copies of the mission you just finished, the ship battles require more luck than actual talent and the trade system is flawed. I've enjoyed Meier's games since the beginning, when he relased the original Civilization, but this game if VERY lacking. I did get about 5 hours of gameplay out of it, but that was becaus I was waiting for something cool to happen, and it just never came.

OK, but not great

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I liked Pirates years ago when I first played it on PC, and was looking forward to trying it on Xbox. While the game is fun, and parts are very amusing, it grows monotonous after a few hours.

The sailing dynamics are somewhat realistic, and the ship-to-ship combat is usually quite good. The swordfighting was interesting until I found a 'hole' that involves taking a particular weapon and merely hitting 'A' over and over again ... that took all the challenge out of all but the most terribly outnumbered swordfights. The Pike-and-Shot battles on land are adequate, though you grow tired of them soon enough. The game's worst feature, in my opinion, is the dancing. It's long. It's annoying. At the higher difficultly levels, it's difficult. (I'm not a twitch gamer, and even if I was, I'd save my talents for twitching something *other* than ballroom dancing). Luckily you don't *have* to bother with the dancing, but you give up an element of the storyline and some nice loot doing so.

Overall, I played the game for about six hours before growing tired of the repetition. It was quite easy, even at higher difficulty levels, to go and capture the best ship in the game, and proceed to wipe the floor with everything I ran into. Then it simply became repetitive, as even the 'hard' fights were none too difficult.

Fun but....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

it's fun but all the same. I can take out a frigate with a pinnace, then a warship with the fig. Same dances, same battles, same same same same same.... Why use anything but grapeshot? Get the girl, there's another that looks the same in the next port waiting for you.

XB Sid Meier's Pirates

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game however it grows tiresome very quickly. The gameplay although fun at first is very repetitive. There are a limited number of animations and cut scenes and the backdrops for the dancing, fencing, and battle minigames are the same every time with only slight variations. There are only so many times you can fence with an opposing ships captain, go to a port (all of which look exactly the same), sell the prize, and dance with the govoners daughter before it all starts to get old. The main game quest is also very repetitive. You chase the evil baron raymondo around repeating the exact same scenario 16 times in order to recover your missing family members. Also there are very few ship upgrades. Overall it is a good game that plays well but wares out quickly.

SID MEIERS SECOND BEST GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: August 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

sid meiers second best game while "civilization" is the best.

Know going in...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: July 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Before you buy this game, know going in that it is not one game, but a collection of mini-games. Unlike other Sid Meier turn-based titles (e.g. Civilization) where strategy and forethought are paramount to achieving one objective (in many different ways), Pirates keeps you busy performing mind-numbing, monotonous tasks. The fact that there's an overall "plot" or "quest" means very little. The plot in Pirates is about as meaningful as getting the high score for solitaire AND Tetris. Clearly (as other reviews suggest), some enjoy these little games -- and you might, too. Just don't go in with the wrong expectations like I did.

sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 19
Date: August 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is a very bad game the play is long and uneventful you sail the sea find your fam then die

good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: November 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I liked the original pirates for the nintendo system and this game has iproved on that idea.

Not bad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's a good game overall, but the fight scenes are kind of lame. The multilayer is really cool with your friends. THe best thing about it is that it's one of the backwards compatible games for the Xbox 360 so you can play it on both consoles!

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