Sid Meier's Pirates!

[Timmoru Suzuki]

I played the multiplayer 'Vs. Mode' demo of this a few months ago, and oit was really fun playing with a friend (you can play the CPU, but I never did).

I just picked the game up today, and this rules. Single player mode seems really complex now, but that's just depth. Basically, you start off as a young pirate, with a basic allegiance to either the English, Dutch, Spanish or French. You can climb the ranks of these navy's, join another, or just be an 'evil' pirate that attacks everyone and everywhere. Basically, its an open ended pirate RPG. You can take missions of navy's, fight and capture any ship you want, attack land settlements, danc with governer's daughters, have swordfights, the works.

It's really fun. I've played about a month in game time, with a basic allegiance to the English navy. Just captured a Spanish ship, and I dont really know what to do next.......

So, does anyone else have this/Thoughts etc. Come on, everyone likes pirates! I think.......

Edited July 25, 2005 by timmayy

[Summers]

I saw this in Virgin, in a huge box, with a tshirt and everything. If only I had money.

[FunkAsPuck]

Well I bought the PC Collectors Edition last year, and its fun for a while, but it gets repetitive really quickly.

However the Xbox version is supposed to have a lot of new additions that make it a lot more fun. I just don't know what all of those additions are aside from multiplayer.

[Guest Bluesman]

I'm hoping to get it for my b-day. It sounds very similiar to Pirates Gold, which is one of my favorite video games ever. It can be both repetitive and open-ended, decided what you can think of to do and what you decide to do. For example, in Pirates Gold I'd always attack the Spanish ports and attempt to claim them for another country. Then I decided to play as the Spanish and attempt to claim every port.

The one downside is that it really sounds just like an updated Pirates Gold. The downside being that with the increase in system power, I was really hoping for a massive jump in what you could do. For example, the entire world is playable, a large amount of tradeable goods, etc. Almost like a merger of Pirates Gold and Uncharted Waters.

[FunkAsPuck]

This game is a remake of Pirates Gold.

Sid Meier was a key developer in both versions, even the collectors edition boxset comes with a copy of Pirates Gold on the DVD.

[9 to 5]

Multiplayer pirates? I just came.

[The Sultan of Swank]

I have the old floppy disk for it for my MAC. I can't find it though Now I want to play it.

[Timmoru Suzuki]

Multiplayer pirates? I just came.

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