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- Platform: Nintendo Wii
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- The classic adventure by renowned creator Sid Meier, re-imagined for the Wii and taking full advantage of the Wii Remote
- Build a fleet: take the helm of one of 27 ships and enhance your ability to deal out high-seas destruction by upgrading to an assortment of powerful ammo, mighty cannons and other valuable nautical advancements. You can also change the look of your pirate and his dastardly vessel through the multitude of Wii-exclusive customisation options
- Use the Wii Remote to parry, counter and effectively out-duel your opponents into submission with lightning quick moves aboard ships, in taverns and even in the exclusive Governor’s mansion
- Using the new Wii-specific mini-games, plunder enemy ports after you bombard them into obedient submission or escape challenging predicaments with your trusty lock-picking set and sail off into the high seas to resume your adventure
- Increase your riches and steal the heart of the Governor’s beautiful daughter to earn gifts and valuable information that you will need on your journey
- Make your own story: challenge and pursue the most infamous pirates in history, including Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and Henry Morgan. If you piece together fragmented scraps of map, you can even discover their hidden treasure
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All hands on deck! Exclusively for Wii, Sid Meier’s Pirates! is an exciting high-seas adventure that allows junior buccaneers to helm one of 27 fully customisable ships as they descend upon unsuspecting ports of call to amass a motley crew of seafaring bandits. Captains must collect hidden treasure maps, undertake daring missions and courageous rescues, and swiftly hand out pirate-style justice to local braggarts before hearing the wild call of the ocean and setting sail for mind-blowing open sea engagements unlike any other game before on the Wii.
Product Description
The classic adventure by renowned creator Sid Meier, re-imagined for the Wii and taking full advantage of the Wii Remote.
Build a fleet: take the helm of one of 27 ships and enhance your ability to deal out high-seas destruction by upgrading to an assortment of powerful ammo, mighty cannons and other valuable nautical advancements. You can also change the look of your pirate and his dastardly vessel through the multitude of Wii-exclusive customisation options.
Use the Wii Remote to parry, counter and effectively out-duel your opponents into submission with lightning quick moves aboard ships, in taverns and even in the exclusive Governor's mansion.
Using the new Wii-specific mini-games, plunder enemy ports after you bombard them into obedient submission or escape challenging predicaments with your trusty lock-picking set and sail off into the high seas to resume your adventure.
Increase your riches and steal the heart of the Governor's beautiful daughter to earn gifts and valuable information that you will need on your journey.
Make your own story: challenge and pursue the most infamous pirates in history, including Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and Henry Morgan. If you piece together fragmented scraps of map, you can even discover their hidden treasure.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I pre-ordered this excitedly, having had a ton of fun playing the 2004 PC version and hoping for an update. More thorough background reading would have told me this was just a port of the PC game rather than a new version, but nothing could have prepared me for the minor but significant changes that have been made in the transition, nearly all of which detract from the gameplay.
The strategic turn-based battling to sack cities has been replaced by a quick point-and-shoot mini-game which, while fun the first couple of times, quickly becomes monotonous. You can no longer land your ships anywhere, so finding treasure, lost relatives and ancient cities is now just a matter of blundering about the coast until you hit the arbitrary spot that reveals the goal. The new Captain's Chamber feature is just an opportunity to treat your character like a pirate Barbie by dressing him in pointless costumes. Not so bad in itself, but the acquisition of these costumes now seems to be the main point of talking to mysterious strangers, dancing with the less attractive daughters, and capturing fugitives. These elements of the game used to push the story forward by giving you money, valuable artefacts or information on quests, which now seem to have been marginalised in favour of foolish and unnecessary wardrobe expansion.
The Wii-specific changes are trifling at best and seriously disruptive at worst. Waving the remote around like a sword is fine for duels, but it makes dancing with governors' daughters nigh-on impossible, as the timing of the strokes is a mess and doesn't seem to correspond to the music, the daughters' hand movements or the arrows/text on the screen.
Also, it's a port of a 2004 game with 2004 graphics, which look OK on a little computer screen but bloody awful on a big telly.
Pirates is a great game, but if you want high seas excitement and adventure, don't for the love of god get the Wii version. You can pick up the PC game for about a fiver, and it's miles better than this shoddy, badly-thought-out cash-in.
The strategic turn-based battling to sack cities has been replaced by a quick point-and-shoot mini-game which, while fun the first couple of times, quickly becomes monotonous. You can no longer land your ships anywhere, so finding treasure, lost relatives and ancient cities is now just a matter of blundering about the coast until you hit the arbitrary spot that reveals the goal. The new Captain's Chamber feature is just an opportunity to treat your character like a pirate Barbie by dressing him in pointless costumes. Not so bad in itself, but the acquisition of these costumes now seems to be the main point of talking to mysterious strangers, dancing with the less attractive daughters, and capturing fugitives. These elements of the game used to push the story forward by giving you money, valuable artefacts or information on quests, which now seem to have been marginalised in favour of foolish and unnecessary wardrobe expansion.
The Wii-specific changes are trifling at best and seriously disruptive at worst. Waving the remote around like a sword is fine for duels, but it makes dancing with governors' daughters nigh-on impossible, as the timing of the strokes is a mess and doesn't seem to correspond to the music, the daughters' hand movements or the arrows/text on the screen.
Also, it's a port of a 2004 game with 2004 graphics, which look OK on a little computer screen but bloody awful on a big telly.
Pirates is a great game, but if you want high seas excitement and adventure, don't for the love of god get the Wii version. You can pick up the PC game for about a fiver, and it's miles better than this shoddy, badly-thought-out cash-in.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Fun:
I was so excited to get Pirates! (one of my all-time favourite PC games) for Wii and couldn't wait to start playing. Unfortunately, this isn't anything like as good as the old versions of the game I remembered.
The instructions are pretty poor. Another reviewer has commented that you're working on hit and miss instead of being able to land to find objects - this isn't strictly accurate. Once you get a map you need to search around the area indicated on that map using a spyglass facility. After your spyglass had enabled you to find the object you were looking for, your ship is able to hit land for long enough for you to recover the object. But there is absolutely NOTHING to explain this process in the couple of pages of pamphlet that accompany the game (or during gameplay that I've found) so if you're struggling with a particular process then forums are a must. The governor's daughter 'minigame' is extremely tedious and nigh-on impossible on a Wii as the motion detection for this is diabolical - which will leave you struggling to access huge areas of the game.
You seem to spend A LOT of time staring at a ship's wheel (in lieu of an hourglass) while waiting for new scenes to load.
However, even with these drawback there are enough features of the Pirates! I remember so fondly that I'm not totally disillusioned... just contemplating buying the PC version instead (apparently there aren't anything like so many issues as with the Wii version) and running it under Bootcamp on my Mac!
The instructions are pretty poor. Another reviewer has commented that you're working on hit and miss instead of being able to land to find objects - this isn't strictly accurate. Once you get a map you need to search around the area indicated on that map using a spyglass facility. After your spyglass had enabled you to find the object you were looking for, your ship is able to hit land for long enough for you to recover the object. But there is absolutely NOTHING to explain this process in the couple of pages of pamphlet that accompany the game (or during gameplay that I've found) so if you're struggling with a particular process then forums are a must. The governor's daughter 'minigame' is extremely tedious and nigh-on impossible on a Wii as the motion detection for this is diabolical - which will leave you struggling to access huge areas of the game.
You seem to spend A LOT of time staring at a ship's wheel (in lieu of an hourglass) while waiting for new scenes to load.
However, even with these drawback there are enough features of the Pirates! I remember so fondly that I'm not totally disillusioned... just contemplating buying the PC version instead (apparently there aren't anything like so many issues as with the Wii version) and running it under Bootcamp on my Mac!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Pirates! is my favourite game of all time and I was therefore excited - and a bit worried - when I heard it was coming out on the Wii. I had Pirates! on the Atari ST, the Amiga and the PC. Would playing this version as an adult make me question why I had enjoyed this game so much and why I had given up too many hours of my teenage years to what is quite a simple game?
No. Pirates! on the Wii is as fun as ever and I cannot recommend it enough. The sheer amount of possibilities are what makes this game, you can play it for years and still find new ways to approach it. What's more, the Wii version has a number of additions that really add to the game (the use of the controls when duelling or attacking towns are a particularly strong additions).
Buy it, you won't be disappointed.
No. Pirates! on the Wii is as fun as ever and I cannot recommend it enough. The sheer amount of possibilities are what makes this game, you can play it for years and still find new ways to approach it. What's more, the Wii version has a number of additions that really add to the game (the use of the controls when duelling or attacking towns are a particularly strong additions).
Buy it, you won't be disappointed.
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