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The Pirates! Legacy Sid Meier's Pirates!® is among the most popular and loved titles in gaming history. Originally released in 1987, Pirates! received unprecedented critical acclaim for crossing multiple game genres to offer unique, unrivaled gameplay options. Pirates! set the industry standard for innovative game design with its unique blend of open-ended role-playing, real-time adventures and thrilling action sequences. Pirates! has sold more than a million units worldwide, and received numerous awards: Hall of Fame Computer Gaming World Magazine Gamespy Online #3 Greatest Game of All-Time IGN-PC Online Action Game of the Year Computer Gaming World Magazine Historical Game of the Year Compute Magazine Best Fantasy/Role Playing Game Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Here's what the press had to say! "It's hard to imagine a game more steeped in enjoyable period flavor - both historical and Hollywood.... {Pirates! offers} something for everyone, regardless of what gaming genre they usually prefer." Terry Coleman, Gamespot "The greatest tribute to Sid Meier's greatness was Pirates!, a naval strategy/adventure game that even now has never been approached in its subtlety and ability to entertain."  IGN-PC "You'll smell the sea salt as you participate in wild sword fights, desperate sea battles, and daring attacks by land!" Moby Games "Sid Meier is the Cecil B. DeMille of the Game World. His games like Civilization or Pirates offered hour upon hour of strategizing that make them the computer equivalents of Risk or Monopoly." Featured on MSNBC's The Site, Superstars of Gaming "One of those rare games that managed to give something to everyone." -IGN-PC Sid Meier on the original design It debuted on the Commodore 64 and soon became one of the most popular games ever on the Macintosh. Sid Meier's Pirates! reached its creative peak, however, on the Amiga, where its sumptuous graphics and full stereo soundtrack - featuring a marvelous pirate soundtrack by Jeff Briggs - weren't surpassed on the PC for almost a decade. Ostensibly, it's an adventure/role-playing game, where you attempt to carve out a nefarious reputation for your pirate captain before retiring or meeting with an untimely end. But at times, Pirates! is also a fast-action game, where you engage in sword fights (with your choice of refined rapier, basic longsword, or bloody cutlass) and exchange broadsides between vessels on the high seas. There is a definite strategy element, as you explore the Caribbean, traveling from one port to another in search of gold to plunder and enemies to overcome. Pirates! is even a real-time war game - several years before these surged in popularity - as you maneuver your scurvy dogs over grassland, hills, and even swamps to approach walled towns, fighting everyone from townspeople armed with farm implements to elite Spanish pikemen and cavalry. "[Pirates!] was kind of an adventure game for people who didn't like adventure games..." To this day, Pirates! is unique in offering the right balance of real-time and turn-based gaming. If you are into resource management, you can handle your ship's inventories and pore over virtual charts at leisure before leaving port, but once the anchor is raised, the game keeps moving as you meet one adventure after another. And as with any great Sid Meier game, there is always plenty to do. Buying pieces of obscure maps may lead you to your long-lost sister or even buried treasure. After meeting with the colony governor to negotiate a Letter of Marque, you can converse with his beautiful daughters, flirting or even proposing marriage via a multiple choice menu. It's hard to imagine a game more steeped in enjoyable period flavor - both historical and Hollywood - than Sid Meier's Pirates! It's unquestionably the best hybrid game ever designed for any platform, offering something for everyone, regardless of what gaming genre they usually prefer. Unless you're one of the few remaining Amiga faithful, pick up the Pirates! Gold version for the PC - just make sure to get the patch. -Gamespot, Copyright ©1995-2003 CNET Networks

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