Sid Meier's Pirates! Live the Life.
- Simple for quite a few hours of play.
You are a young man looking for his family that got kidnapped and his fortune that got stolen when you were kid by the spanish pirate Montalban.
You get enrolled in a crew (choose from French, English, Spanish, Dutch) and then you and the crew mutiny against the cruel captain.
The adventure begins.
Gain fame by accomplishing following goals:
- Gain ranks in the French, English, Spanish and Dutch faction.
- Defeat the notorious pirates.
- Find the notorious pirates' treasures.
- Charm Gouvernor's daughters.
- Find your family members.
- Find the Lost Cities.
- Gain Wealth and Land.
- Vengeance, defeat Montalban.
Simple game where you sail and deal with the basic. Buy food, trade goods, guns (no powder or balls to manage). Battle with your flag ship only (no complicated crew management). Simple swordfencing battles.
Pros:
- Simple commands.
- Many difficulty modes.
- Sea battle made simple.
- Sword battle made simple.
- Nice graphics and details.
Cons:
- Wind always blow to west. Making it hard to reach some cities in the east.
- Some treasures might be really hard to find if they are deep in land, you got no sea checkpoint to know where to drop off.
- Too simple for those who are more 'Gotta Control Everything'.
- You split all your current cash and lose all your ships and crew when you 'Divide the plunder'. You have to when your crew is unhappy, they might desert the ship.
Gameplay : 8/10 (Repetitive)
Graphic : 8/10 (Nice details)
Control : 8/10 (Simple)
Sound : 7/10 (Too repetitive)
i really love this game. i only got to play it once, so i had to retire vary quickly because i didn't discover anything. but this is one of the most fun games too
I was Duke in two faction, found all family members, king of pirates (defeated all of them and found their treasure), defeated Montalban, married with beautiful gouvernor daugther, found one lost city...but the second was somewhere in land with no sea mark...
I have it!
I played for a bit, haven't picked it up since.
I never got rid of my Revenge Sloop. =p
