Original pirates of the caribbean game

North Amercian Release Date: July 1, Have you ever thought about getting into the Pirating business? Well you? In Pirates of the Caribbean, you assume the role of a freelance Captain who becomes caught in a struggle for power in the 17th century. At the start of the game, you witness French forces invading an English island. Sailing away to avoid harm, you set course for a nearby English colony to inform the English Governor of the bad news.

Upon reaching the island, the English Governor decides to enlist you to infiltrate the captured island as a spy for the English to see what you can discover about the French invasion force and their future plans. Thus begins your adventure. Actress Keira Knightley , who played Elizabeth Swann in the film series , voiced the narrator in the game. After a fierce storm in , Captain Nathaniel Hawk arrives on the island of Oxbay. Nathaniel's first mate is retiring and he needs to spice things up a little.

As he leaves Oxbay the French attack the colony and capture it. The governor then sends Nathaniel to run several quests until Nathaniel meets an old inventor who helps him find a treasure that could defeat the evil ghost ship, the Black Pearl. There are many side quests in-game, for example, Nathaniel helps the Dutch colonist find several lost children.

The Black Pearl makes an appearance but it's not the same ship as in the movies the game takes place in the 's aside from the POTC time frame and it was only named so to have a relationship to the movie. Disney paid Akella to call it Pirates of the Caribbean for publicity reasons. However, Barbossa is set as the ship's default captain in the game's code. It does not attack the player unless attacked, in which case it will destroy the player.

At night the Black Pearl' s crew appears as skeletons. After the adventure on Khael Roa , The player's ship enters battle with it and destroys it using an ancient treasure that makes its user invincible. PotC Wiki Explore. Black Pearl Queen Anne's Revenge more Cast and Crew. The Brethren. And I spent hours at a stretch not really sure where to go or what to do, only to--shiver me timbers! It was just enough to keep my interest afloat despite so much of this game being barely shipshape.

The complex plot, deep customization, and copious subquests can't save this shipwreck. It's like Morrowind, minus the best part--exploration. Here, you spend too much time running errands between a handful of tiny islands. The gameplay simply isn't fun: Delving into the intricacies of pirate economics left me cold, and sloppy control leeched all fun out of stabbing skeletal monkeys.

It's not a total wash, though--I warmed up to the naval warfare, and I've rarely seen a nicer virtual sunset. Oxbay Island in the 's is a small, yet burgeoning English settlement in the heart of the Caribbean, and your current port of call. You've just unloaded a nice load of chocolate and silk, and are looking to beef up your crew, when the alarm sounds: 'The French are attacking the port! Quickly returning to your boat, you are one of the few who manage to escape the attack.

Now, you have a choice to make: Will you warn the English governor of the attack? Continue your modest yet lucrative trading business? Or perhaps leave it all behind and enter the cutthroat world of piracy and bootlegging? It's up to you, in Pirates of the Caribbean!

I admit it, I was expecting yet another quickly produced, sub-par title based on a blockbuster movie e. Lord of the Rings. But to my surprise, Pirates of the Caribbean is a well-realized, excellent, and more importantly, fun adventure title. Bethesda Softworks put out a keeper in this one, which obviously must have been in development long before the movie was produced.

The unconventional controls take quite a bit of fine tuning to make playable, and though somewhat difficult moving from the first person character movement to full scale ship control, it is still rewarding gameplay. The graphics are first rate, with detail in both the scenery, character skinning, and all other visual aspects of this title.

Audio is crisp and well realized, with a minimum of voiceover distractions; a definite plus in my book. However, all of these items are merely window dressing for the excellent gameplay. Sea battles are well executed, with good physics and great battle effects torn sails, damaged yardarms. While first person combat is somewhat simplistic, it is also used with good effect.

The storyline itself, while a bit contrived, is also fairly accurate to the time period, so no qualms there. A few minor flaws mar this game. There are still some bugs that cause the title to crash to the desktop, as well as some scripting errors for things that are supposed to happen, and of course, no multiplayer.