![]() The first thing you'll do is choose a name for yourself, as well as a specialty, such as swordfighting (which is useful in duels), navigation (which makes you sail a bit faster), or wit and charm (which help your dancing skills). Now, years later, it's up to you to save your family, vanquish the evildoers, and get rich along the way. The game's prologue explains how your wealthy merchant family was imprisoned and how you escaped as a young boy. Your character will age over time, so your ultimate goal is to amass as much fame and fortune as possible before you retire, at which point your pirate will go into the hall of fame and you can start all over again. ![]() You'll sail the Spanish Main, trade broadsides with other ships, engage in dashing swordfights, search for buried treasure, sneak into hostile towns, and dance with many a governor's daughter along the way. More often than not, you'll dabble in all those fields at the same time. You can pursue the career of a privateer, a treasure hunter, an explorer, or a trader. The beauty of Sid Meier's Pirates! is that this open-ended strategy game lets you live the glorious life of a swashbuckler your own way. At least, that's your initial reason for going to sea. In Sid Meier's Pirates!, you play as a pirate out for revenge against the evil Spanish nobleman who wronged your family. Sid Meier's Pirates! is a colorful, lighthearted game about piracy. Still, that doesn't stop this new Sid Meier's Pirates! from being a wonderfully lighthearted game that boasts an intoxicating blend of strategy and action. The Xbox version has a number of enhancements over the PC version, but on the other hand, it's also missing some of the PC's gameplay elements. The PC remake, which came out late last year, was excellent, and the good news is that, for the most part, the Xbox version is faithful to it, though it does have a fair bit of give and take. So it wasn't surprising that when Firaxis announced the remake of Pirates last year, it also announced that it was working on both a PC and an Xbox version. ![]() Although, in those days, multiplatform meant Commodore, Atari, and the IBM PC. The original Sid Meier's Pirates! came out way back in 1987, and it was one of the first big multiplatform games to emerge. ![]()
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