Sid Meier's Pirates! Remake Hoists Mainbrace

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."

Comments

For appropriateness...

[Gunsmithy]

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

What? Board the game shop

[SmallFurryCreature]

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.

Hrm

[SuiteSisterMary]

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

Re:I strongly dislike

[Angst Badger]

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!