The MST3K crew would've had a blast with Space Pirates. Yet another FMV shoot-em-up dud from the gun-obsessed AL
I swear by the time you're done playing you'll want to find the FMV actors and have them committed to an insane asylum because these people are NUTS.
The gameplay is frustrating, beginning with a difficult "practice" sequence that involves hitting a small, incredibly fast rock in space.
It then progresses from blasting at generic enemies (while constantly wishing there were a way to take out every one of these horribly-portrayed characters, even the "good" ones, and unlock a real game by doing so-unfortunately, no such luck)
This is one of the worst games ever made for the 3DO, about one notch above Who Shot Johnny Rock?, which I believe to be quite possibly the worst FMV shooter ever.
If you thought Ground Zero was a considerably cheesy FMV shooter, watch out for this one.
This is a trend that ALG had going for a while, producing these terrible FMV-based shooters.
A hidden clip for an equally cheesy game released by ALG can be found in gameplay, though one will probably die a thousand times before they actually successfully shoot the right thing to unlock the thing.
The story is so contrived and stupid.
It's like the movie you were drunk one night and couldn't get to the remote so you watched it to see if maybe it had a little nudity and it never did so you were extremely angry.
Please, please, do NOT let this game influence your opinion of non-ALG FMV-based games for the 3DO.
There are so many games that utilize FMV without it being some middle-schooler's film project; Wing Commander III, Psychic Detective, Night Trap (even the '80s B-Movie style of Night Trap isn't one billionth as cheesy as Space Pirates) The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes.
You wanna know how bad this game is?
Think Supreme Warrior bad.
Prize Fighter bad.
Bad like being forced to play Sewer Shark for eternity.
Bad like a parakeet that's high on coke and constantly repeats Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" and won't shut up (actually, that would be much more entertaining than attempting to play this horrid game)
Remember:
Friends don't let friends play Space Pirates.
Blessed Be