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Repetative

It's a great "pirate" game, and if all you want is to feel like a pirate for an hour, I'd highly recommend it. The plot is weak and not worth playing through as the game becomes mind-numbingly repetative and boring. After a week of off-and-on game play, I still hadn't finished the storyline but had become so bored with the game that I just stopped playing.

You can do two things. Attack ships and go to ports.

Attacking ships is fun but can get old quick. The ships can be upgraded at the ports and you can capture or sink enemy ships. Biggest draw back is that the sea battles are either 1on1 or 1on2, you can't battle with more than one ship, even if your opponent can. The ship controls are really good though and the graphics engine is decent.

At the ports you can speak to the governor. This is where you get promotions (changes a couple of the rating systems in your favour), talk to the governor's daughter (stupid side-plot: you can either buy her jewelery or dance with her [her choice, not yours] and if she's made happy, she devulges info that you can get elsewhere.
You can go to the port and upgrade, repair, or sell your ships.
You can go to the merchant and trade goods.
You can also go to the tavern. At the tavern, you have 4 people you can talk to: The "group" which will semi-randomly have a number of pirates join your fleet, a "mysterious stranger" who sits in the back and sells stuff (This is where you can upgrade your skills), a bartender who'll devulge information, and a wench that will devulge information.

The only remaining aspect of the game is fighting. There are a few different times when you can fight: over a girl (wench or gov's daughter) for a randsom (talk to the bartender when at the specified port) or with a ships captain upon boarding an engaged ship (just run into it). This is extremely repetative. You have 3 attacks and 3 blocks and a choice of, you guessed it, 3 swords (only one sword on easy).

The game is fun at first but becomes really repetative. After a while of gameplay, your crew becomes cranky and all want to leave. Eventually, you'll be forced to go to a port and "divide the booty". You get some money in your "personal hoard" (only used for score, not for in-game), start over with a small amount of cash, food, and cannons, and only have 1 ship left. I had the 2 best ships in the game: Flag Galleon (Slow, but powerful and large storage) and Flag Sloop (Fast with smaller storage and cannon space) and had to give one up. I gave up the Sloop and never found another again. (There are different levels of ships: Flag, Royal, Military, Fast, and Norrmal)

It would make a great multiplayer game, but as is, worth a try but not a buy.