First off, yes there are more then a fair share of bugs but the game is AWSOME. These bugs will be fixed quickly so put up with them for the great aspects of the game.
First off you can´t not really compair this game with sid´s version of pirates. Sid went the arcade route with the game and even though it is fun it is arcade none the less. This is more of a pirate sim then a pirate game with amazing ship to ship combat.
You are not going to run around and blow everything up in a small ship in this game because even though speed and agility help you just do not have the fire power to sink your enemy. The aiming gets pretty damn frustrating at first but once you get ahold of the concept it is actually fun, i enjoy running around my boat while steering it to get a good shot off. And i love the way that you can aim a little off because you are used to that gun and know a better point to aim at. Just because the rectical is red, it does not mean that is where you should be aiming, you can aim a little high if you are using chain shot and a little more forward if you see the ship is moving fast and you will not only hit it but hit more of your shots. There is an amount of skill involved just in the shooting. The wind effects the fight WAY more then it did in any other pirate game and the sea comes into play as well because your boat rocks and the game takes that rocking into acount.
Now the one big beef I have with this game is the total lack of a tutorial. Jesus i spent an hour trying to figure this crap out and by god shooting at another ship will take someone 20 minutes to figure out. You have to be on deck (have to figure out how to do that) then you have to figure out that the thing in front of you is where you are aiming (only way to figure it out is kinda aim at something in the right spot see it go red and DING light comes on in your head).
But besides the bugs, the lack of tutorail, and some clunkyness, the game is awsome. The ship combat is second to none, the quests are enjoyable and it has a life span that is much longer then sid´s did.
The online play is a ton of fun, unfortunatly right now you can´t find a server up for the life of you and it takes a while before people will join up to the one you are hosting. They really need to get the dedicated server working so some of the fans can host dedicated servers and get this games online eliment rolling. There is nothing more satisfying then using a corvette to blow the masts off a SOL and then sitting in it´s blind spot slowly dwindling the thing down. I could see alot of future for this games multiplay using people to be tacklers (corvettes for example to take down masts and things of that nature) backed up by some SOL style ships to sink the big boys.
All in all I would give this game a 7.5 right now because of the bugs and lack of tutorial but this game could easily be a 9+ if they launched it without them.
First off you can´t not really compair this game with sid´s version of pirates. Sid went the arcade route with the game and even though it is fun it is arcade none the less. This is more of a pirate sim then a pirate game with amazing ship to ship combat.
You are not going to run around and blow everything up in a small ship in this game because even though speed and agility help you just do not have the fire power to sink your enemy. The aiming gets pretty damn frustrating at first but once you get ahold of the concept it is actually fun, i enjoy running around my boat while steering it to get a good shot off. And i love the way that you can aim a little off because you are used to that gun and know a better point to aim at. Just because the rectical is red, it does not mean that is where you should be aiming, you can aim a little high if you are using chain shot and a little more forward if you see the ship is moving fast and you will not only hit it but hit more of your shots. There is an amount of skill involved just in the shooting. The wind effects the fight WAY more then it did in any other pirate game and the sea comes into play as well because your boat rocks and the game takes that rocking into acount.
Now the one big beef I have with this game is the total lack of a tutorial. Jesus i spent an hour trying to figure this crap out and by god shooting at another ship will take someone 20 minutes to figure out. You have to be on deck (have to figure out how to do that) then you have to figure out that the thing in front of you is where you are aiming (only way to figure it out is kinda aim at something in the right spot see it go red and DING light comes on in your head).
But besides the bugs, the lack of tutorail, and some clunkyness, the game is awsome. The ship combat is second to none, the quests are enjoyable and it has a life span that is much longer then sid´s did.
The online play is a ton of fun, unfortunatly right now you can´t find a server up for the life of you and it takes a while before people will join up to the one you are hosting. They really need to get the dedicated server working so some of the fans can host dedicated servers and get this games online eliment rolling. There is nothing more satisfying then using a corvette to blow the masts off a SOL and then sitting in it´s blind spot slowly dwindling the thing down. I could see alot of future for this games multiplay using people to be tacklers (corvettes for example to take down masts and things of that nature) backed up by some SOL style ships to sink the big boys.
All in all I would give this game a 7.5 right now because of the bugs and lack of tutorial but this game could easily be a 9+ if they launched it without them.
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