Sid Meier's Pirates! (Live the Life)

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $13.79

Features:

• The 1987 cross-genre classic returns with an all-new story, a new engine, updated gameplay, and 3-D graphics
• Play as a pirate captain cruising the 17th century Caribbean
• Confront enemies on board ships, in seedy taverns, and in other locations; use anything within your reach as a weapon
• Engage in fierce naval battles fighting single enemies or multiple ships
• For 1 player

Accessories:
Sid Meier's Pirates! (Prima Official Game Guide)	PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

A great game - long play - great fun. [Posted on 2007-01-12]
This is a great game with lots of play, good side plots, and a good story. Sid Meier has a knack for making great games. The play is fun, fast-paced, and runs for a long time. It is definitely worth the money.

Time to pilllege and plunder! [Posted on 2007-01-24]
I bought this game on a whim and am so glad I did! I've stayed up later than I should have every day this week playing it and it is still just as fun as the very first time. What's better than fencing and treasure hunting? Nothing! It's worth every penny spent.

I am disappointed that I couldn't be a female pirate though. But I've gotten over it.

Pirates? Yes. Repetitve? Yes. [Posted on 2007-02-07]
It could have been better. Sid Meier is a fantastic game-maker, and I hear the original was great. This is apparently a decent remake, however the repetition starts to grate upon you after your fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth time around. It's true that you can increase difficulty, which makes it a bit better, but still....Fights are very scripted and end ususally the same way. Dancing and socializing is more like playing "Simon Says." Perhaps this is why Pirates! went extinct on the high seas so many years ago? They all fell asleep at the wheel and were lost at sea....

Awsme for a day! [Posted on 2007-03-08]
If you get a chance to rent the PSP or XBox version do that, or wait till the game costs about the same as a rental because it's only fun for about day or 2 and then becomes very repetitious and boring.

When I first started playing the game I was amazed by the interactivity of the ocean, but soon became annoyed by the endless tiresom traveling from one city to another just to find the next part of a map. Everything looks the same and blends together after the first 3 hours of playing.

All in all, it's a great game to rent or pay less then $5 for, but don't buy it for $20.

Fun but with a few faults [Posted on 2007-08-12]
This game is AWESOME when you first start playing it. The graphics and colors are excellent. It is alot of fun swordfighting, blasting cannons at ships, and many others. I wish there could of been a multiplayer feature built in to play with or against a buddy. I wish there wa smore to romancing the daughters also. I wish the top 10 pirates were a little more harder to catch as well. Once you find them and kill them, the challenege of finding them is gone and they are dead forever. It would of been nice to allow them to escape a few times or allow you to maroon them or walk a plank or something.

Overall the game is a B+ and is a good buy.

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