Sid Meier's Pirates! preview

[Nostromo]

You can find it on:

gamespy

[vmxa1]

It was in the current Computer Games or one of them. Not much shown.

[Imran Siddiqui]

IGN has one too (a little more in depth and more pictures):

http://pc.ign.com/articles/499/499119p1.html

[Imran Siddiqui]

Pretty:



Die, evil ship, die!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Sneak out of jail:

[Imran Siddiqui]

Right now the team is projecting a minimum spec for the game that requires a 1GHz processor, 128MB of RAM and a GeForce 2 or equivalent video card.

[Imran Siddiqui]

From Gamespy:

You can:

# Sail Your Ship, looking for prey, avoiding storms, and evading patrols of hostile governments.
# Stop off at Port to upgrade your ship, sell your booty, listen for rumors in the tavern, or get new missions.
# Visit the Governor to chat about world events, or do him favors to increase your rank with his government.
# Fight Sea Battles, maneuvering your ship, firing broadsides, in order to sink, flee from, or board an enemy.
# Get into Swordfights, either on the decks of an enemy ship or in town, using a variety of fancy footwork and fun special moves.
# Break out of Prison, avoiding guards as you sneak through a maze of darkened town streets at night.
# Hunt for Buried Treasure, piecing together maps during your voyage and ultimately leading a crew of buccaneers to a convenient giant "X" painted on the landscape.
# Lead Raids into Enemy Towns with muskets, swords, and a simplified real-time strategy interface.
# Woo the Governor's Daughter with your daring deeds and your abilities on the dance floor. Yes, Pirates! is also a dancing sim.

[Urban Ranger]

Looking up!

[Theben]

The terrain looks straight out of civ3.

[Skanky Burns]

Sn00py can mod them!

[Jamski]

I'm imagining that in the first picture the waves breaking on the shore are animated. That looks sweet.

It will be released here in Europe 8 months late, of course, and then will need a patch, which will take another 6 months and not fix anything.

Atari are publishing, yes?

-Jam

[Urban Ranger]

Not them!

[Jamski]

Yes them. So forget all your hopes NOW.

I was so excited about TOEE and MoO3... both built up to be the best game "liek eva!!!"

I'd like to think I learnt my lesson. Pirates will only be bought at least 8 weeks after release.

-Jam

[Urban Ranger]

Nah, I knew MoO 3 would be a lemon from the get-go. With all due respect to Alan, his design was overly ambitious. I knew QuickSilver could not possibly implement the plan, so they would start cutting back on the design and do strange things to push the game out of the door.

But they better not mess with this.

[Jamski]

It looks quite ambitious to me... I bet that people are going mad when its released, calling it a buggy heap of **** and asking why xyz wasn't implemented properly.

-Jam