Sid Meier's Pirates! (PC)

...didn't quite make it. Sid Meiers is, of course, the genius behind this game, but the full title should read: "Sid Meier's Pirates!". I'm trying to get this sorted out but in the meantime, if it still says just "Sid Meier", at least you know why... ********************************************************************** Pirates! by Sid Meiers was one of the defining computer games of the 8 / 16-bit era and is still one of my favourite games of all ...
...but updated for modern computers. Sid Meiers & Microprose have teamed up once again to give us a game that will surely endure as the king of all piratey games (the Monkey Island games don't really count as piratey games as such) for many years to come. The original, if you didn't know, was a blend of arcade, action-adventure, and RPG. You developed your character throughout the game (though not in the traditional stat-driven way) and as well as pirating, ...

CaptainDisaster 27.07.2005 · Read full review
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...and then kill something bigger. Sid Meiers Pirates tries to deviate from this in the way that there are no stats, no godlike powers and no crawling through dungeons for no apparent reason. Alot of you are Probably thinking: "Well whats the point of that?" Here's the answer: Sid Meiers Pirates is a game where your decisions can craft the Pirates world. You start the game as a nameless traveler in the Spanish main who finds himself the captain of a ...
...the British, Dutch, Spanish or French Navy. From there its pretty much up to you: You could go pirating for a bit, capturing and looting ships or you could search for your enslaved family or evan pillage and plunder every city and port in the game but all these actions make an impact on the world your in. If if you decide to attack a spanish stronghold for example, you then have to give control of it to another country, resaulting in the spanish ...

All4Slade 23.08.2008 · Read full review
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...but the welcome return of Sid Meier's Pirates to the PC has really got me caught up both in nostalgia for previous Pirate editions and the vogue for pirate themed books and movies. Those of you who remember the original Pirates in vibrant EGA graphics on the PC and Amiga will feel right at home as Mr Meier has made the wise decision to tweak gameplay but not to fix anything that is not broken. You take to the high seas with a world of adventure ...
...with or against and how honest you are in your dealings with fellow sea dogs. Sail where you want, skirmish with pirates, rob merchant ships, carry out acts of war for your chosen governments, recruit crew from towns, trade goods and even get married to a Governor's daughter if you so desire, and that is just for starters. Yes it really is that open ended and the the graphics are beautifully realised as the gameplay deserved after all this time. ...

GKDurkin 13.09.2008 · Read full review
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Argh .. let me tell you a story bout this bloody pirates .harh.... they work from the ancient times of the 98th windows till the XP windows .... those fearless beasts are a mixture between a bloody Real Time Strategy and a Role playing game ... and hear this ... their story is unique and original .... there is nothing like it .... it was once a brave man .. he had to choose between the bastard Dutch , the bloody English and the vicious Spanish .... ...
...bloody thing took hiim at sea ... he got some water rats with him aswell ... he destroys the rich and plunders the sea ... he gets what ever boat he wants because he knew how to scare the bloody fools of his path ... nothing can stand between him and revenge of his family ... oh yes ... his familly.... his familly was kidnapped by an idiot and now , our prave pirate walks on water leaving death behind him to kill that one .... although he signed ...

TheGoldenOne 16.08.2008 · Read full review
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