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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. Am I the only one... by Dehumanizer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... who thinks that this will be 99% like the first one, only with better graphics and such?

    For every feature discussed in the article, I was like "yes, just like the original".

    Yes, I loved it, but, after 17 years, I wanted more than a graphics update - I wanted something like a Daggerfal to an Arena. Not "Pirates Gold Plus".

    Ah, but it'll have *dancing*. Nice. :)

    Oh well, I'll buy it anyway, but they could have done *so* much more...

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  2. 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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  3. For appropriateness... by Gunsmithy · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    Kids these days. They don't know the difference between classic, and just plain old.
  4. Or just take a Java OSS solution by managementboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    a Pirates game in OSS: http://huntforgold.sf.net Taking shape, needing developers... plays as good as Pirates! Gold