Pirates of the Caribbean Online Review

By Chris Hudak

A pirate lite for me.

Just a handful of years ago, the lot of the pirate-wannabe gamer was a scurvy one indeed. You could count your halfway-decent options of tally-ho titles on the healthy feathers of a mangy, terminal-stage parrot – and frankly, you should thank Sid Meier, directly or indirectly, for the better half of those. The comparative, inexplicable dearth of pirate-themed games afloat…

  • Fun ship-to-ship combat
  • Suited to modest gaming rigs
  • Good cinematics and voice work
  • Poker, Blackjack... and cheating!
  • 'Kid-friendly'
  • No quest-sharing
  • Lackluster non-subscriber model
  • Weird difficulty spikes
  • Discount graphics

5

Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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