Sid Meier's Pirates!
Joseph Nebus
buy it on a couple of grounds. First, I'm not sure whether it runs on
my ageing PowerPC-based Mac; the price sticker was, of course, plastered
over the message to PowerPC users.
Most important, I was wondering about whether anyone in these
parts had played it and had feeling about how it does for filling up
those precious few minutes a week that there is to play strategic games.
Any thoughts?
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Joseph Nebus
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Simon Slavin
nebusj-@-rpi-.edu(Joseph Nebus) wrote:
> I saw a copy of Pirates! in the Apple Store yesterday, but didn't
> buy it on a couple of grounds. First, I'm not sure whether it runs
> on my ageing PowerPC-based Mac; the price sticker was, of course,
> plastered over the message to PowerPC users.
It's a Feral product, so you can get quite a detailed requirement on
theirsite. Click on the 'Requirements' link on the left of
<http://www.feralinteractive.com/game/pirates>
> Most important, I was wondering about whether anyone in these
> parts had played it and had feeling about how it does for filling
> up those precious few minutes a week that there is to play strategic
> games. Any thoughts?
I've played it a lot. It's an unusual combination of games and
minigames, with elements of strategic ground-control, resource
building, chase, one-on-one fight, and Dance Dance Revolution.
Possibly the best part of it is that you can choose which of these you
want to do lots of and which to ignore, though you can't get a really
good score without doing at leasta little of all at some point.
It's a good game, with amusing graphics (though you might have to
throttle them down on an older PPC). and the feeling that are
progressing through a long career rather than just doing the same
thing over and over. It does have a few annoying aspects, including
one point at which you may or may not spend many hours looking or one
specific thing without which you can't progress, and the fact that
your character much retire when she or he gets too old: instead of
being able to sail around without fear ofattack forever you have to
start again with zero gold and skills.
Simon.
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