Why I buy this one ?
- Live the life of a Pirate
- Beautiful 3D Graphics
- True Role Playing
- Action Packed
- Strategic Elements

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What our customer's say!

"Entertaining and NOT AS REVIEWED by others here.", (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.

"bugs and starforce", 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.

"Age of Pirates", 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.


"It's your call.", 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.

"Controls need remapping", 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.

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"Ugh", So soo buggy. I was looking forward to this game for months, only to buy it and discover it was a bugged unplayable mess. The reason for this is that the game is simply a reskined copy of their sea dogs 2 game that they released in 2003 as pirates of the carribean. If you dig into the game files you can even find remnants of code referencing locations and objects from that game that aren't in this game any longer. So really this game is just a retexturing of that game, with a bunch of unnecessary code left in that leads to a bunch of bugged coding that runs into problems at every turn.

"An allright game", Remarks on Starforce or whatever you wanna call it. If its there I dont have a problem with it. My computer is three years old, 2.7 GHz, 1 G Ram, NVidia 6600 and I have no problems. Graphics are decent, but the sound effects can be rather distorted and choppy (except the battle sounds, they are clear). There are a lot of missing elements missing as stated in some other comments (the Bank, certain houses, etc). There is a map, if you press the M key as the options states you get a map so I dont know what game the one reviewer was complaining about. Controls are rather easy as well, you go to the options screen and set up what you want to use for directional movement (arrow keys, WSDA, etc) WOOOOOOO! not that hard. But gameplay although fun does get boring, it seems all you do is buy/sell stuff, fight sea battles, and board ships and sword fight. It gets old and tedious, nothing new. The missions are boring and repetitive (pick up Joe Smoe and take him here). The game does have a problem of crashing at least once an hour, I have expererienced this a couple times in ten minutes, also save games do get corrupted but the fix is to load that corrupted game and immediatly keep saving. You might have to do this a few times but it seems to correct the corruption, especially useful if you havent saved in awhile. The AI is rather stupid as all the Captains that you employ seem to be unable to guide ships no matter what their skill level (mine seem to like running aground or into each other a lot). Enemy Captains are just as dum. This game is buggy and although well concieved it could have been way better, looks like the developer was trying to ride the "Pirates of the CA" movie hype as stated in another comment. BAD BAD BAD on the developer, if this were a car you would be sued for putting out such a product. Overall game is allright to play and gets tedious, but expect saving problems and crashes.

"Too Bad, It sounded promising", I have never played a game that crashed so often. Very frustrating. it was fun until it would crash the first time in a one hour session. But the second time in a one hour session is just Ridiculous. dont know if it is the programing or starforce but its frustrating. The game was fun for a while then became very repetitive .

"No Problem", I don't know why some people have a problem with Starforce. I have never had a problem well running a game with Starforce. Age of Pirates is a good in depth game.
A lot better then Sids Pirate remake. It would be nice if Amazon would list in the product information if a program is using Starforce for those who do have a problem with it.

"Requiring starforce is the least of its problems...", You did need to install Starforce! I don't know how the one positive reviewer installed it without Starforce especially since he wrote the review a week or so before it was released!

I played it for 30 minutes and I'm returning it. Hard to play, controls are awkward, can't hit anything at point blank range in the ships, and got slaughtered by the French on the first mission my governeor (English) gave me which was to go to a french town and deliver a letter.

Other negatives: No overall map, unless you have a map of the carribean or have memorized one its difficult to navigate. No real rpg aspects, nothing new here. Its Pirates of the Carribean without being able to pick up anything or go in any houses, or fight successfully. Etc, etc.

This games is a joke, do not buy it!