Game Details
Game Description
Sid Meier's classic adventures on the high seas returns! Trade and hunt for treasure, engage in awesome sea battles, assault port towns, and duel with dastardly enemies in Sid Meier's Pirates. Pick your allegiance to Spain, England, France, or the Netherlands. Then pick your start date to set sail. Become a skilled swashbuckler or masterful navigator as you captain a ship in the Caribbean. As you sail the seas you will command a crew of seafaring heroes. Your name will travel across the waters among privateers and pirates. Rumor of your exploits will even reach back home to Europe where a game of empires depends on your brilliant adventures.
Critic Reviews
IGN Review (9.2 out of 10)
Entering into a hum-drum Xbox summer, which is shaping up to deliver almost no worthwhile hits, gamers appear headed toward a proverbial videogame plank. Should we just replay old games? Or -- gasp -- walk outside and use our bodies in the strange experience called "exercise?" No, it's not that desp...more
User Reviews
Average Member Rating: 7.2 out of 10
This Game Is Great!!!!!!!!!. (8 out of 10)
posted by Myself234 (CLEARFIELD, UT) on Oct 18, 2006
Member since Aug 2006
8 out of 8 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
Member since Aug 2006
8 out of 8 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
I loved this game, it's a game I would buy, but only if it was 10 bucks, because I would like to have done more with it. I got bored after playing a full life-time in the game, it's quite easy to get the hang of, but even when you think you might have it, there's a little more you can do, for exampl...more
Specs & Requirements
Xbox 360 Compatible Yes
Modes Campaign, Simultaneous, Story, Versus, Team Battle, Full Mission Single-Player, Mini-Games
Audio/Video HDTV 480p
Online Features Scoreboards, Content Download, Friends
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