The Bottom Line
Pros
- Has a good and overall easy to learn gameplay and interface.
- A nice blend of various game types; action adventure role-playing and strategy.
- Great storyline. Open-end play allows you to follow many different paths in your career.
Cons
- Some repetitive game play in regards to combat and minigames.
- Sailing from port to port, sometimes takes too long and combat becomes too easy at lower levels.
- No, multiplayer game modes.
Description
- Experience an all-new story built upon the most fun and compelling features of the original Pirates!
- Live out multiple quests through an open ended play where every decision poses distinct challenges.
- Confront enemies on ships, in seedy taverns, on the ramparts and even at the Governor’s mansion.
- Single player game that has very high replability.
- Different levels of difficulty truly make it a game for everyone.
- Watch as you gain skill and collect riches in your quest to free your family.
Guide Review - Sid Meier's Pirates! Review
The game begins with you vowing revenge against the nobleman responsible for imprisoning your family. By selecting one of four nations; the English, French, Dutch or Spanish, you begin your career on the high seas.
Sailing the Caribbean Sea is a large part of the game and engagements/battles with other ships are very detailed and fun to play. These battles, however, are a bit too easy and predictable on the lower difficulty levels of play and I recommend trying different levels of difficulty to find the one that's challenging for yourself. Capturing ships also is more challenging at higher levels.
In Pirates! you also engage in land battles on enemy ports in which you'll have three different units at your disposal. Ultimately these battles will lead to the game's goal of freeing your imprisoned family. Other mini missions or games in ports involves you sneaking through the dark streets while avoiding the town guard, get caught and you'll wind up in prison.
Finally, there's more strategy, action and adventure in other parts of Pirates! that help your character progress. They include merchant trading, ship management, dancing (yes, dancing), bar fights, and more. This wide range of game-play makes replayability high.
