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Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales (PC DVD) | 
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| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: role-playing-games
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 8717545401064
ASIN: B000H1M6SQ
Release Date: September 8, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Are you prepared to be boarded by bugs? September 12, 2006
krankyd (UK)
58 out of 59 found this review helpful
I've been waiting a while for this game to be released, and I was very happy to finally see it hit my doormat one Monday morning!
The problems started after I had finished the installer. There is nothing on the disk casing saying this, but you have to install some `apparently dubious` anti-cd software called StarForce. Not being one to install anything I didn't know about without checking, I did some research on the internet. There have been many horror-stories posted about this particular copy-protection system on your pc - everything from complete windows disaster's to cdrom's being disabled. There is not an un-install option either, you have to manually remove the files as specified on many web-sites to properly remove this once for all. Other people have had reports of this locking out their cd-rom and cd-writer drives..
I decided to run this installer on a seperate PC I have lying about for testing - so not an issue to me. It installed fine, but then when starting up the game I started seeing numerous bugs and random crashes. Let me clarify this, continuous crashes! There are many reports on the playlogic forum about the instability of this game, and you have to believe me it is not very good. For instance, the game ships with multiplayer support, but this is broken. You have to install a utility written by someone else to actually get any multiplayer action - and then it's still buggy. Crossfire cards are not supported (it doesn't say this on the packaging, but you get corrupted displays when this is enabled). Perhaps the worst bit is the random `engine.exe` crashes - they are not too frequent at the start (only 1 per hour), but as you progress in the game they become more frequent - I was up to 7 in one hour at one point..
All this for a game that they promise they will release a patch for `really soon`. This in my opinion is not good enough - they should have never released this buggy software to begin with.
To sum it up? looks like a super-model, goes like a skip. I'd wait 3-4 month's until the patches are out, or give it a miss and spend your hard-earned cash elsewhere.
Repetitive gaming! September 16, 2006
Lester (London, England United Kingdom)
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
I trust I am not forming my view on this game prematurely, having only bought this game a day ago.
I must admit, I already get bored after a few hours of playing this. I know that the game will slowly develop and you can get better ship and more items to buy. You can also take on the whole colony as well.
However, this game lacks depth, and after a few random missions, you will find all other missions are more the less the same. The game map is too small. The menu is not helpful and contain wrong information, at least key "M", which shows the map, is not included in the menu.
The graphic is not too bad, but again the sea and ocean looks the same to me and the towns look similiar. And to be honest, there aren't much more about this game I can say other than "Simple and repetitive game concept"
Not bad but not that good. February 26, 2007
matt, 14 (England)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Pirates of the Caribbean Caribbean Tale is a great role playing game set during the age of gun powder and sword play. The game itself is great fun and has many hours of game play, all the ships, guns, swords, cannons, ship hulls etc are fun to play around with and definitely have more choice than in previous games, Sea Dogs and Pirates of the Caribbean 1. The graphics are also excellent, particularly at sea and looking at other ships. Certain issues in the original games have been dealt with to an extent.
Unfortunately just when you begin to get gripped on this game you will probably find yourself facing your desktop with crashes occuring most hours. This can get extremely annoying and during long voyages the last thing you want to see is your game data slipping away as the game shuts down. Another issue I found with the game was that there seemed to be very little story line, you can get a mission from virtually anyone on the street but Im not sure if the storyline itself had finished on my own game, I certainly wasnt sure where to go next a lot of the time. Frustration is the word.
To summarise, if you are an experienced veteren from the Sea Dogs, Pirates of the caribbean... games, this game is worth buying despite the problems. However if you are new it will probably be one worth looking over as you will find yourself disappointed.
 THIS IS A GREAT GAME December 5, 2006
lewis (nottingham, england)
4 out of 20 found this review helpful
OK FIRST THINGS FIRST, THIS GAME ROCKS I CANT BELIEVE PEOPLE R SAYING ITS RUBBISH(MOST LIKELY THE PEOPLE WHO CANT PLAY IT) THIS GAME TAKES NORMAL OLDEN DAY ADVENTURE GAMES AND COMBINES THEM TO MAKE A SUPER GAME.
NOW THIS GAME MAY BE SLOW BUT U JUST HAVE TO HAVE SOME PATIENTS LIKE IF THE WIND IS BLOWING IN UR FACE OF COURSE IT'S GOING TO TAKE LONGER BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURE. PEOPLE R ALWAYS SAYING THAT GAMES ARNT REALISTIC BUT I CAN ASSURE U THIS IS A VERY GOOD REALISTIC GAME.
 Pretty but Frustrating and Pointless July 22, 2007
Small Fry (Cheshire)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I got this reasonably cheap but have so far managed to complete only a few hours of gameplay and still acheived nothing. This game has very nice graphics in sea mode, and the buildings are nice but gameplay is awful. Possibly the worst I've seen.
A selection of problems:
1. Your ship will randomly stop working - you can't steer or get any speed from it (lack of wind I guess)
2. Guns don't fire when you want them to, maybe they work 2 times out of 10 the rest of the time you're demonically hitting the fire command with nothing happenning.
3. As soon as you try to move off in map mode a pirate ship (or four) pulls up which you have no choice but to fight (they are quicker, more agile and have more powerful guns than you of course)
4. If you get too close you suddenly get teleported on to the deck of the pirate ship where they slash you to death before you've even realised what happened.
5. None of the friendly ships help they just sit there and watch you get hammered by 3-4 pirate ships. If you try and hide behind one, the move out of the way so the pirates can get a clean shot!
6. There are not really any missions - just move this from here to here (there's no proper map to actually show you where some of these places are so you start a mission and just sit there on you ship wondering what to do next)
7. Other Characters in-game all look and talk the same - these must be the first game designers with no imagination.
8. There's nothing to see on land - just a few places to buy stuff and that's it.
9. You have to sail from island to island to build up a crew - you can only recruit a maximum of 3 people from each island tavern (and there's often only 1 miserable french sailor with a bad attitue for hire who wants a big wedge of cash)
10. Oh, and when you try and hide in a lagoon behind a mountain, the pirate ships on the other side of the mountain are still able to hit you with cannon shots, even though they can't see you. - how does that work then??!!
11. If you accidentally press the Windows key while playing, you switch to the desktop upon which the game crashes and you loose all your progress. Nice.
I could go, on, but just - don't bother with it - play the demo, enjoy it for as long as it keeps you occupied. Then buy something else.
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