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| Sid Meier's Pirates! | 
 enlarge | From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $11.05
You Save: $8.94 (45%)
New (11) Used (8) from $8.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 1928
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: 710425218392
Model: 710425218392
UPC: 710425218392
EAN: 0710425218392
ASIN: B000AOIES6
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Outstanding game play! June 18, 2008
Sid Meirs is genius. This game will give you many hours of intense game play. I wish there were more games of this quality to enjoy, instead of the mindless shoot-em-up stuff that makes up 90% of the games sold. I love the open endness of the game which allows the player to enter the game as not only a pirate but a trader or Spanish raider. It's also educational for younger players; teaching them the geography of the tropics and the location of many current cities. Highly recommended!
Awesome!!!!!! June 4, 2008
I loved this game. The graphics are good and it shows all the aspects of the life from a pirates eyes.
 Captain Blood. May 31, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a game is which the player is in charge of a ship and sets about the seas in search of his kidnapped family. You can become a privateer, a pirate, a trader, or anything in between. You can plunder ships or cities. You can also court Governor's daughters. There is a separate type of play for ballroom dancing, dueling, naval combat, land combat, navigating, treasure hunting, and more. The game is entirely open-ended. It has beautiful graphics, a wonderful story-line, and is much fun. So what is not to like? Well....
My main complaint is its lack of realism. It is not just the fact that when you stick a rapier into someone he only staggers back as if the blade is not sharp; the main problem is that nobody duels properly: Yourself and your opponents pull back blades before thrusting, and make absurdly large swings. There are lots of minor problems aside from that, but as a fencer who studies the history of dueling, that type of cartoon fighting will always irk me.
Great game April 21, 2008
I'm told this is a great update of an old Sid Meier's Classic. It's apparently gotten a lot easier in the new edition (as video games tend to do), but there's plenty of challenge if you play in Swashbuckler mode.
Good game with above-average (think B to B+) replay value.
good time killer April 12, 2008
If you are looking to kill 3 hours during the day it is very easy to get wrapped up in plundering the seas. Not overly difficult, but fun.
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