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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. Re:Pirates Gold by Dehumanizer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, PG was exactly like the original, only with better graphics and sound. Oh, and accelarated time.

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  2. Re:Graphics by managementboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    check out
    http://frigate.free.fr/screenshots1.html

    for some old screens of Pirates on all Architectures

  3. Re:Graphics by Dehumanizer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thanks! But the URL is wrong. To everyone else, please remove the "1" at the end of "screenshots".

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  4. Re:Ueber Villain? by SLot · · Score: 2, Informative

    As far as time limit, there needs to be one. Just as the Civ series couldn't go on forever (no new technology changes gameplay fundamentally and for the worse), Pirates has to end too after a certain ammount of time. Or else, your character will be forced to become a video pirate. Arr..?

    Not necessarily:
    Pirates are alive and committing acts of piracy on the high seas even today.