Sid Meier’s Pirates: Live the Life

LincLinc OwnerDetroit Icrontian
edited August 2007 in Science & Tech
CB returns with the highest-scoring cheap game yet, Sid Meier's Pirates: Live the Life.
Sid Meier’s Pirates: Live the Life ($20) is pretty straightforward: Try to make a name for yourself in The New World to help you find your kidnapped family. The best way to get what you want in the Caribbean? Control the water ways.

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  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited August 2007
    Well done sir! I have this game and your review is spot on. It’s a true 4 out of 5.

    I don’t know if you found it to be an issue as I did, but the sword fighting dynamic seemed all too simple. All one has to do is thrust a few times and the match is won. Pirates' simplicity is a a great selling point for the game, but at lower levels, I wanted more.

    What makes up for it is the ship-to-ship cannon combat. I pity the man who sees the side of my ship.
  • deaden_07deaden_07
    edited August 2007
    The side of your ship scares me not!

    Tis the cannon in your backside I fear!
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited August 2007
    Buddy Jesus wrote:
    Well done sir! I have this game and your review is spot on. It’s a true 4 out of 5.

    I don’t know if you found it to be an issue as I did, but the sword fighting dynamic seemed all too simple. All one has to do is thrust a few times and the match is won.


    I found that to be true on the lower difficulties, but when I got to the fourth difficulty level, I discovered that I had spoiled myself, as that tactic no-longer worked. It became important to actually watch and respond to the other swordsman, which I had not practiced, so I was readily defeated over and over, and had to go back down a notch in diff, so I could practice the mechanic the right way.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited August 2007
    Did you have to patch the game to play? If not, the patch might fix the getting stuck on the shoreline problem...
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited August 2007
    Tis the cannon in your backside I fear!
    Oh boy...I'll just leave that one alone. :confused:
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited August 2007
    GHoosdum wrote:
    Did you have to patch the game to play? If not, the patch might fix the getting stuck on the shoreline problem...

    I think I remember checking for a patch, but I don't remember how hard I looked, or if I found one. I'll check when I get home tonight if the game is patched.
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