Arrrrrrrrrr....Good Fun, Decent Graphics
posted by RKDynamic (PLANO, IL) Jun 17, 2007
Member since Feb 2007
Pirates is a pretty decent game, and is definitely worth a rent... especially if you enjoyed the movies.
PotC: AWE walks you through the second and third movies of the trilogy at a decent pace. The game can be challenging based on its own merits, BUT I found myself frustrated more than once because of wiimote control issue. Sometimes it takes the Wii 3 or 4 waggles in a particular direction before it picks up on the motion. This can be EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING if you are in the middle of a Jackanism (more in a minute...) and it doesn't pick up on a motion. I have no idea why a game like Wii Sports can mimic the every move of a baseball bat, yet other games can't seem to pull it off.
A "Jackanism" is a wii specific part of the game that flashes a motion/button press onto the screen for you to do/press. If you do the correct motion in a very short time period, the mini-cut-scene like action will continue. If you don't, you lose whatever the final prize of the Jackanism might have been.
After I got used to the "multiple waggles = one motion on screen", I began enjoying the game more. There is plenty of sub-quests and collect 4 of these type quests to keep the completionist happy for a while. Combat, once you get the hang of it, is pretty intuitive. The graphics are not gorgeous by any stretch, but they are very decent on the wii.
I gave the game a 6 because of the sometimes frustrating controls, but I had fun and I'd rent it again later to finish it off!
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