HMS Interceptor, from POTC would be a 6th rate frigate, known in the game as a corvette. 4th and 5th rate frigates patrolled in squadrons, or alone acting as escorts scouts and local patrol vessels. A ship of the Line was also known as a battleship on occasion. A ship of the line was a 1st 2nd or 3rd rate frigate that might be found in the line of battle in a fleet.
The game includes Frigates, Warships, Ships of the line, battleships and man o' wars.Īll of the above are Frigates. for comparison, HMS Dauntless, seen in the film POTC looks to be a 2nd Rate Frigate, and USS Constitution a 4th Rate Frigate. They were never used in the caribbean to by knowledge. these ships were incredibly expensive, large, slow, and hard to manourve, maing up for it by having over 100 guns.Īt the height of its power, the worlds best navy, the Royal Navy had only 2 such ships, one of them being HMS Victory. Or you can follow the main story line, which i won't reveal, but is somewhat more original than that found in Pirates!ġ6 types of ship, from small sloops and schooners, big trading vessels, small agile warships like corvettes, to the worlds biggest heaviest warships, the 1st Rate Frigates and Man o' Wars.Ī man of war was the nickname for a 1st Rate Frigate. You can build up a squadron of Man o' War and terrorise the seas, or use them to fight piracy (ala Commodore Norrington) You can ally yourself with a game faction, and attempt to take over the caribbean in the name of your King, and get yourself proclaimed Vice-King of the Caribbean, you can become the most notorious and hated pirate in the world You have a small lightly armed trading ship, and can choose to be a male or female character, which influences the main story to some extent.Īfter that, the rest is up to you, this game is very much open ended, and you can set yourself whatever objective you choose. You start off, an independant captain in the caribbean. In fact, its actually very good in my opinion, because Pirates was very "disneyish" a swashbuckling game that was very cartoonish and designed for children, most evident in the fact that when you disposed of an emeny captain after taking over his ship, he tended to get booted over the side, instead of being killed in the duel.īut like i say, this game is much better than Pirates! it has more depth, and far far more realism.
This game looks and feels and works in a way rather similar to Pirates!
Most of them call this game a rip off, or duplicate of the newest release of Pirates! and it must be said, to some extent, they are correct. This game is the latest nautical offering from russian developer Akella, who worked on Age of Sail, and Pirates of the Caribbean, published in europe by Playlogic, and released in the UK/Europe on the 8th September.įirst of all, if you read any review on this game online, 99% of them mention Sid Meiers Pirates.
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