Great source material, Bad Game.

User Rating: 5.5 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow PC
By nappan | Review Date:
After Chronicles of Riddick, I really believed that games released with movies might start to improve. Surely that game proved that a game could promote a movie and visa versa, AND be good! Alas time seem to have shown otherwise. Pirates could have been so good. You've got a great actor voicing the lead role, which is a GREAT lead role. You have the chance to make almost any kind of game you want from the source material, AND it's an established movie success!

So, that said, gamespot is right about this game on all points. Johnny Depp is great, and the pov of jack sparrow is pretty amusing. Beyond that, there is little to be said for the game. Nothing really challenges the experienced (or even novice) gamer, and the combat (called sloppy by GS) is terrible. Frankly, I didn't expect this game to be wonderful, and I wasn't dissapointed.

When will it be accepted by the dev and movie making community that even though these c**p movie-games DO boost movie success, they can get a much larger boost from a truly good game? Also, a game can be more lucrative than a movie, so why not go for the brass ring and cash in on both with a truly GOOD game. Oh well... not today, and not with Pirates.

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