Pirates of the Burning Sea

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $3.89

Features:

• This PC game requires a monthly fee, and an internet connection to play
• Game Genre: MMORPG/RPG/Strategy
• Choose Pirate, English, French or Spanish and Traverse a world of more than 100 PvP conquerable ports in the Caribbean.
• Virtual buccaneers can engage in fierce ship-to-ship combat in real time, sending foes to the bottom of the briny deep or leaving them helpless and ripe for looting.
• Choose from traditional Fencing, the dual-wielding showmanship known as Florentine, or the treachery of Dirty Fighting in savage Swashbuckling

Customer Reviews:

Awesome [Posted on 2008-02-25]
Great game. Developers are very communicative with the playerbase. The game is designed around pvp, so carebears would probably not enjoy it too much. Fights last longer than 10-15 seconds. Have to actually think to win fights. Level 20's can take on a kill level 50's.

Overall great game.

The Best Pirate Game this year [Posted on 2008-03-20]
I have played several pirate games. This is one of the best I have played so far. I like to compare it to a combination of Morrowind and a real time strategy game. It has great depth and a good storyline. It looks and sounds great. The end game content is good, but will get better with time. The pvp and pve content is better then I expected. I believe they need to change their avatar combat.
It's too similar to Everquest and WoW in this aspect. Something original their would have been good. It's still in the early stages of becoming a great game.
I hope in a year the creative team behind this game do what they promised.
It has some small bugs, but it's on par with what World of Warcraft had when it came out. Overall it's a good game that could become great.

Yarg [Posted on 2008-04-19]
When first playing this game, it is a lot like Sid Miers "Pirates". The handling and fighting of the ships is the same, but this game is more based about you and your playing style. If you like being an agressive player i suggest a Naval Officer for the best ship, or if you like to make money a merchant is for you, or vice versa. All in all the game is decent, has nice story line, gameplay and graphics. The only thing i didn't like was handling my character at port, it was very scetchy "laggy" at times, but other than that this game was great.

If you like PvP Ganking [Posted on 2008-05-25]
This game's been out (officially) a bit over 4 months. Already it's gone through a server merge - from 11 servers to 4.

Don't be fooled. The vaunted economy system is simply an Easy Button system and is basically a money sink.

The ship combat is usually fun, even against the NPC ships. It's a slow stately dance of the seas.

But the game is touted as PvP and PvP it is. Actually, it's PvP gankfests. Six level 50 PK's take on single lower level ships who haven't a snowball's chance in hell. If you like being a level 15 or 20 trying to stand up to 6 level 50's - this game may be for you.

The game has an MMORPG tag, but again, don't be fooled. There's little or no roleplaying these days. You can find plenty of childish names which refer to bodily functions and such, however. It's a 3rd grader's delight - there's no name filter. You can also pick any real, fantasy, historical, etc., etc. name you want. Want to be George Washington? It's fine with this game's developers.

Not for the Meek [Posted on 2008-06-09]
Pirates of the Burning sea is gorgeous: the graphics are beautiful on the open ocean, or in smaller instanced environments, and the many ports in which you may land have a variety of looks and local color: there's always something going on. It's also easy to find missions, although sometimes the missions themselves are too far above or below you to be worth your while.
The downsides are that the game is not very easy to learn, and that the players are often more akin to bullies in a schoolyard. PotBS was PvP centric at launch, but updates have tilted the balance even more so. If you have to battle someone a level or two above you, you will lose. And if you're not careful, one or more high-level characters will jump you, sink your ship, and steal everything with no shame. If you are looking for Roleplay, you might be a bit hampered: while character creation allows a great deal of creativity, the emotes interface is clumsy and weird (and don't forget that most will speak to you in movie pirate tones, complete with "Arr!"s).
If you can find people who will play with you it helps because you can be sure you never sail alone. One of the cleverest details you'll run across is the political balance of various ports: each faction can capture and dominate a port, making it difficult for anyone from opposing factions to enter. While ports are under contest, players from any side can sail to the port and jump into the fray, affecting the outcome.
Overall, this game can be fun to play, but it is not easy to pick up, nor can you survive on your own for very long. Ye be warned: thar be rich bounties aplenty for a resourceful soul, but ye belie my cautions at your own peril. :D

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