Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales

Tech Shop

Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales

Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales see short title

[+] enlarge

Product Rating:

Age of Pirates: Caribbean tales is a completely fully featured pirate-based role playing adventure game. Offering a rich gaming experience with deep character development and extensive open ended quests,Age of Pirates is truly the most advanced and fully featured pirate game ever made. Age of Pirates takes full advantage of cutting edge PC graphicaltechnology and boasts a visually stunning 3D setting. The storyline offers players a passionate and involved plot without forcing linear play and player will find the game extremely open ended. In terms of action, the game offers both land and sea battles, from bloody sword fights on the Caribbean shores to epic naval battles with squadrons of warships blasting each other out of the water. « short desciption

User Reviews

Review Date: 2007-10-04
(Review provided by my son, as the game was purchased for him.)

I have been playing Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales for all week now. I haven't really done any of the "main quest" stuff until just today, mostly spent "free time" trading, battling, exploring, etc..

I rate the FUN LEVEL incredibly high, due to it being quite entertaining. I normally don't play much in the way of strategy style games, but you definately need to understand strategy to advance very far. Not saying a teenager wouldn't figure it out, just that it's abit more involved than a FPS style game.

OVERALL SCORE is only lower than 5 stars because the main storyline is alittle too limited in content in my opinion. Sure, it takes some game-time to complete, and you won't be able to "beat the game" in a single day (atleast not easily), but I wish for the level of graphics and the fact that the map spans such a wide region, that it had more content than what it did. Still, the freedom to do what you want if you want to, definately makes up for that lacking.

I have read many of the reviews posted by others, complaining of needing a patch to play, or bashing "Starforce" in general. I have been playing this game for SEVERAL DAYS, have not patched it in any way, and I don't have the most currently up-to-date setup on my PC. I've also experienced none of the supposedly commonplace problems associated with "Starforce" copy-protection software. My installation has not resulted so far in any crashes I can blame on the game software. The only crash I have experienced was a tempermental issue with my anti-virus. It causes crashes to desktop sometimes in many of my games when it runs it's update, so this is unrelated to the game.

I am finding alot of what seem to be "errors" in the other reviews made on this title. It works fine for me. I may eventually install the patch just to see if there's any change, or a "mod" when I get bored with the scenery, but I don't imagine I'll be bored with this game anytime soon.

All in all, great game, great fun, don't believe MOST of the negative reviews you'll find on here. I've noticed alot of contrasting negative reviews that differ completely from my own experiences once I played the games myself. Can't say why that is, but please give games a try. Taste and gameplay choice varies, afterall.

User: Carol S. Citty
Rating:
Summary: Entertaining and NOT AS REVIEWED by others here.
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 4
Review Date: 2007-07-05
This game is from the makers of Sea Dogs, and Sea Dogs II which was retitled Pirates of the Caribbean. This game is very similar to Sea Dogs II (POTC) with some graphical improvements. This game has some serious stability issues, I crashed to the desktop 5 times the first day of playing it, several times losing alot of progress. It was version 1.4 when I installed it so I figured they would have most of the stability issues worked out, apparently I was wrong. The game also uses StarForce copy protection, which has inspired several boycotts among gamers. In Sea Dogs II there was a hotkey to speed up the passage of time while maneuvering your ship or waiting for your cannons to reload, there is no such hotkey in this game, very annoying because sea battles can get long and drawn out especially when you are trying to run.

User: A. Elder
Rating:
Summary: bugs and starforce
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
Review Date: 2007-05-28
As the Pirate crazy spirals ever upward, I suspect more and more games like this one will start to appear on the horizon. Age of Pirates is very similar to "Pirates of the Caribbean" and Sea Dogs" and for one good reason they are all made by the same company and in doing so they all have the same game engine running them.
This game is almost impossible to play in the beginning if you are not savvy enough to make a whole boat load of ferrying for the capitol to keep you and your ship afloat. It seems in the beginning that everyone wants you to do this and that for not a lot of gold but as you become more familiar to the waters and to who will attack you can start plotting accordingly.
Do not hesitate to board anyone who comes near you and take their ship, kill or enslave their crew and then start figuring how to secure you place in piratical history. No one says you have to be a pirate but then again no one said you had to buy this game.
Face it Pirates are fun, romantic and just plain cool. This game will entertain you for as long as you remember that unlike real pirates you have the luxury of starting the game over. I'm sure a little attribute Ol' Black Beard would have liked to have had available.

User: J. Quirindongo
Rating:
Summary: Age of Pirates
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 2
Review Date: 2007-05-12
Well, the good and the bad things about the game pretty much balance out. Let's start with the good things first though. The game is deep into the naval genre, and can keep you entertained for hours. Theres always another mission to do and another ship to sink. You can choose to serve Spain, England, France, Holland, Dutch, or be a plain old pirate. Taking colonies for yourself is very fun and challenging, as all nations become agressive to you, if you can manage to take the fort, which will usually decimate your fleet if you're not prepared. Now, the bad things. This game is very buggy, so much that I would not buy it unless you were going to download the patches. There are frequent crashes to the desktop, game freezes, and so many bugs it's not even funny. If you have a Radeon 9200 graphics card, you MUST download the patches, because it will not work on most Radeon cards without them. And the game uses Starforce, a stupid copy protection program that buries itself into the dark corners of your pc. Even if you uninstall the game, some bits of Starforce will remain, and if you don't eliminate them, they will cause driver failures, hard drive failures, basically make your computer life a living hell. I uninstalled my game because of Starforce, which was already screwing up my pc. So, if you feel like putting up with those major headaches, then I would buy the game.

User: J. Godwin
Rating:
Summary: It's your call.
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 2
Review Date: 2007-04-30
The over all freedom and story line during the game is good. But the controls are jumbled and placed randomly. The game takes to long to get used to unless you have a gaming keyboard.

User: Jesse Klein
Rating:
Summary: Controls need remapping
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 1

Product Details

Live the life of a Pirate
Beautiful 3D Graphics
True Role Playing
Action Packed
Strategic Elements

Amazon Results

Price	Store	Rating	Availability
Check Price 1 used & new from $3.89	Amazon.com		Usually ships in 24 hours

myEarthLink

Tech Shop