Tides Of War

[Old Salt]

Has anyone ever played it? Its a pirate game from 1998.<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" /> I bought it around 1999 or 2000 when it was already almost off the market. It was pretty good. You played a series of missions and on some of the missions it was totaly non-linear and you could sail around forever <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/keith.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="keith.gif" /> picking off ships and amassing gold.
The graphics were pretty good, especially the explosions on the ships when they were hit and when they sank. And there were numerous ships out there <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sailr.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sailr.gif" /> from a lot of different nations (all made up countries like Angland and the Grand Duchy of Darn) that you could go after.
There were also pirates, <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/william.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":will" border="0" alt="william.gif" /> and they sailed ships that were stolen from other countries. And you could find yourself also being attacked by Indian canoes, and they would come out in droves after you though they could be sunk with one broadside. One thing though, you had to be careful because your cannons didn't always hit the enemy if you weren't at the right angle and that made the game more realistic and also more competitive.
The game had a lot of features, came on 2 CDs and was published by <!--coloro:#0000FF--><span style="color:#0000FF"><!--/coloro-->GT Interactive Software<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--> and <!--coloro:#FF0000--><span style="color:#FF0000"><!--/coloro-->Devil's Thumb<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->.
Here is a link to a review of it, the only one I could find. They weren't too kind to it but it was better than they say it was.

<a href="http://about.games.net/article_frame/article_frame.cfm?id=750&src=gamepro&global_id=103647" target="_blank">http://about.games.net/article_frame/artic...lobal_id=103647</a>

 

[LordDrow]

Never even heard of it before, Salt. Sounds like an attempt at a remake of Sid Meier's before Sid jumped back on it. Might be fun to try if I can ever find a copy of it.

Cap'n Drow

 

[Old Salt]

When I bought the game it was in the mark down section already and that was back in the late 90s. I have searched a lot of places trying to find it but no luck so far. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> Even though it got a dismal review on that link I put in the first post the game was pretty good. If I can find one somewhere I will post where it is.

 

[Blind Owl]

6 years later (having recently discovered this site and the piratical gaming community), I'll indulge in a bit of thread necrophilia/nostalgia. Tides of War deserved the lousy reviews it got: the manual sucked, you couldn't save the damn game while you were in a scripted scenario…

And yet, and yet…

By golly, it was fun and engrossing! You get killed a lot in this game, or at least I did. But "Hold supper, honey, I'm being chased by native cannibal piraguas and the enemy fleet is just heaving into sight!" A friend gave me his copy, but I lost disc 1 of 2, and the manual is who-knows-where. Wouldn't mind playing again, though.

You might say it was a cross between Sid Meier's Pirates and Bethesda/Akella's Pirates of the Caribbean, but without any first-person combat (as far as I recall). In the end you're being chased by a near-invulnerable ghost pirate supership, though in Arctic not tropical waters, and by golly it's a tough fight! Yeah, I wish I hadn't misplaced disc 1.

And the manual, near-useless though it is.