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Sid Meier's Pirates! Remake Hoists Mainbrace

Posted by simoniker on from the round-and-round-the-isle-of-wight dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for its first impressions of the PC remake, Sid Meier's Pirates!, an updating of the seminal Civilization designer's late '80s game of the same name. Meier notes: "We've learned quite a bit about gameplay... we learned how to build on a classic game without destroying it", and the preview reveals: "The game world is a 'fully fleshed-out sandbox' where you'll have your own ship (or fleet of ships) and free reign to do as you please." However, Meier also mentions: "There's a little more of a stronger story pull", since apparently, this Q4 2004-due title has, like other piratical titles, "an über-villain, a pirate captain responsible for killing your parents, forcing you to leave the old world, and scattering your family all over the Caribbean."

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  1. For appropriateness... by Gunsmithy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I think I'll pirate this. ;)

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  2. Graphics by Schemat1c · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hopefully the graphics of the governor's daughters will be much better. For some reason they just didn't look all that pretty on my C64.

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  3. Re:Am I the only one... by MrScience · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed, like Bungie.

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  4. What? Board the game shop by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Funny
    What? Board the game shop, slaughter the crew and make the shopowner walk the plank?

    Intresting idea but unless you live in venice how are you going to get your ship up the highstreet?

    Hoist the electic window and shiver me sheet metal does not quite have the same ring.

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  5. Hrm by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 4, Funny

    But will it have a huge honkin manual, which is more historical primer than anything else, in the classic Microprose style?

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  6. Re:I strongly dislike by Angst+Badger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me play for as long as I want, or at least give me the option to do so.

    Right. I want to keep prowling the Caribbean in my eight-gun sloop even after iron-clad steam-powered destroyers show up. Aaarrrrgh, matey! It's the dread Cap'n Anachronism!

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  7. Easter Eggs? by jazman_777 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you have to break the CD copy protection scheme to win?

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  8. Re:Am I the only one... by mgs1000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's pretty funny that you brought up Bungie, since they basically made Marathon prettier and called it "Halo".

  9. Sometimes lo-res is a feature... by CarrionBird · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah but there's always that one that you really didn't want to see in Hi-res.... Yeah, just sit there and give me the info babe....

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  10. Arrrrrh!!!! by darkpurpleblob · · Score: 3, Funny

    Personally, I'm waiting for Bungie's Pimps at Sea:

    Lace up your platform shoes and pick up your diamond-studded whoop-ass cane - here comes a rival pimp bent on hijacking your hoes! Welcome to the world of Pimps At Sea, where you can hoist the jolliest of rogers and set sail for a different kind of booty.