Quite an interesting game. Starts off excellent but finishes poorly.

User Rating: 7 | Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales PC
By zakld | Review Date:
This game starts of amazing. I got hooked, I loved it, I sailed I earned money, got ManOWar , ranked myself amazingly high, got unbeatable crew and started enjoying it as much as Pirates of the Caribbean. However, Pirates of the Caribbean had that extra bit to take it up to the 9 section with its very nice ideas that actually had to be developed. A nice idea here, which is already seen, is to conquer towns and develop them. It doesn't actually take much time for the developers to develop a few more buttons where you can upgrade your towns and stuff. But in actual effect you cannot see this effect, when you go to the town it is still the same, the fortification has not changed and you can lose it just as easily as you gained it. It takes a lot of running around to get anywhere, especially when you have to conquer the entire caribbean.

Many other ideas could have been more deeply developed to bring it to a new level. Such ideas could have been side missions, strange things. blah blah blah, you know like a role playing game. This game was just OK and even though it grew on me I cannot help wonder about its broken nonsense bits especially when Beatrice goes away and the storyline doesn't follow through. The storyline starts well but abysmally fails towards the end.

All in all, a very playable game with loads of potential that could easily reach rank 8 had the end not been messed up and the storyline simply followed through. Many other bits could have brought it to 9 but unfortunately it's stuck at 7, perhaps even a bit lower than 7 because a game that ruins the end ruins the entire gameplay enjoyment for you.

I will give it 7 as I think I should encourage developers to make games like this one but pay more attention to it rather than just wrap it up early probably because of low budgets. Another problem is that the game is not linear per se but yet has a storyline which makes the game a lot shorter than it could be.



My marking system is as follows:

10 - Absolute Legend
9 - Must Be Played
8 - Excellent and Worth Your Time
7 - Worth playing if you have nothing else to play
6 - worh playing if you have nothing to play and are incredbly bored and have not got absolutely anything else to do. (Barely playable/enjoyable).

I don't give marks 1-5 as if a game starts sucking I don't finish it, so I only review the games that are barely playable (6) to the absolutely amazingly incredible ones (10)

I will also probably keep my reviews short as I don't like discovering too much about the gameplay. I only like to give my quick opinion and get on with life.

Best Wishes to everyone

Zak

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