Sid Meier's Pirates! Gets Board Game, Previews

Thanks to Firaxis for its press release announcing that Eagle Games are making a board game version of forthcoming PC remake Sid Meier's Pirates!, following Eagle's earlier release of a Sid Meier's Civilization board game, as well a previously mentioned Age Of Mythology tabletop title. The official Eagle Games site hints at "Other [Boardgame] Projects in the Works", including "A Railroad Game" - possibly Railroad Tycoon, another Sid Meier-created videogame classic? Elsewhere, there was GameSpy coverage and a GameSpot preview of the Pirates! videogame itself at E3, with GameSpy noting: "It's an easy game to jump right into: heavy on action and big on pirate", and the Firaxis site also mentions another Meier-related story, the announcement of Civilization for the Nokia N-Gage.

Comments

All just re-makes of Settlers of Catan.

[Domini]

I've also tried Warcraft Board Game, and it was fun up to a point. Just seem to be a re-hash of existing games... a bit of Magic the Gathering with some Risk, with a whole lot of Settlers. I got bored quickly.

Would rather play Settlers or Seafarers of Catan. :)

Combos

[keoghp]

What would be really nice to see would be games that use a combination of a board game and a pc/pda/handheld etc.

Its not a new idea either. I have still got some old stuff that runs on a PET (Dneiper River Line - I think they called it)

Good nostalgic stuff - can we have some more please.

Re:Boardgames? they still sell?

[will_die]

Local newspaper(no web) had an article around 4 months ago that boardgames are having a huge regrowth in sales.
For a while they died but an increasing amount of parents are conserened about the large of time spent on playing video games(grouping it with TV) so that has lead to the increase in boardgames.

Updating old PC games

[eyepeepackets]

Never played Pirates, but I can list a number of old PC games I'd repurchase if they had their graphics modernized, their A.I. beefed up, etcetera:

Battlezone: Truely great game from Activision.

Jane's: I liked their Fighter Anthology and the WWII flight sim was slick too (period music was seriously cool.)

Panzer Commander: Really enjoyed the first person view standing up in the turret checking out the terrain with field glasses. This one also had a great editor which was most useful in making really hard-to-beat scenarios, possibly the best part of the game in some ways.

Dungeon Master: Okay, this one really dates me, but on the Atari ST this one creeped me out more than a few times and was a challenge. Loved the first person view too.

Anyone else think there's money to be made by brushing up old favorites/best sellers and putting them back on the shelves?

No subject.

[sICE]

This game is all my childhood, i played it for month, and if there's someone around here that knows the carribean sea better than me, he'll taste my sword for sure. But for /. readers it's perhaps out of sight, i played it on the C=64 last century, then on the amiga, and got it on the PC for a birthday. Anyway, i hope the "remake" will keep the promises of the first game.

Other games i like: "Soul reaver", "Black & White", "Trick Style", Tibia, Nomad Soul, and of course all the Lucas Art Series..

Re:Hardly the first

[KevinKnSC]

We're talking about two different games here. The first, Civilization (later augmented by Advanced Civilization) is the classic from Avalon Hill that you played twenty years ago (and that everyone ought to try, it's a pretty good game).

The one mentioned in the article is properly titled Sid Meier's Civilization, and includes a lot of the concepts found in the computer game.