still not one patch and many bugs -- avoid
User Rating: 8 | Pirates of the Caribbean PC
The PC interface is awkward at best. You can assign some of the keys to your preference but not all of them. More importantly you can't assign the mouse and keyboard to work like a standard FPS, so your main character has to swivel in place like a resident evil-type game. The game looks good and offers plenty of open-ended gameplay. You can trade goods, explore dungeons, perform simple random quests, or ship battles. There are short load times within the cities even though a PC could load the whole city -- yet another indicator that the PC version is really a port of the Xbox version and not the other way around. When looking around with mouse-look, there isn't a mouse-smoothing option, so the screen will jitter about more than you typically see in a PC game. There really needs to be a patch. For those who are thinking of buying, be warned that the game start out hard -- your character has very low stats in everything. You have to spend some time to see the better parts of the game. I should add that the dungeon levels and on-land fighting are both a bit disappointing. The game feels rushed and the lack of any patch suggests that Akella isn't bothering to fix any of the bugs and glitches. Unfortunately, I would suggest avoiding this game entirely.
