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Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships Review
User Submitted Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships Reviews
Date: 2010-08-23
great
I think the game is great and I would recomend it to everyone. The game is a bit hard and the controls are not so great but everything else i think is awesome.
Date: 2010-08-14
Patience rewards the Player
If you are fan of games with an RPG element and enjoy the Golden Age of Piracy, this is a game that you will thoroughly remember for years to come.
However, I have to give warning for those that have not played the previous titles from Akella including Sea Dogs and Age of Pirates. This game is much deeper that Sid Meier's Pirates! This is the game that AoP and Sea Dogs should have been, but the learning curve is very steep initially. Fully compatible with WIN 7 and looks sharp and has good atmospherics. You can easily modify the system.ini file to allow proper widescreen resolutions up to 2650X1600 in proper aspect ratio. Probably the one major complaint I have is the interface. Its archaic. Controls for the player are not naturally intuitive, and don't "flow" like say the Prince of Persia series, as keyboard and mouse is the predominant means of movement. Using a gamepad is NOT the best option here. Expanded options for fighting with multiple types of attacks and and a more realistic sail model are the real updates here. Contrary to some opinions, there is a plot but really only if you play as the first primary character, Peter Blood. Due to the depth of the game, only hardcore players will ever see the true ending as quests can be incredibly difficult without first building up your character even at moderate difficulty.
Overall, if you willing to accept the interface issues, and get past the gigantic learning curve at the beginning the game, the whole procress starts to pick up steam as you gather experience. Being able to face down a Man-o-War with a single frigate, board and defeat the crew through multiple levels of decks until you face the captain for capture is exciting. The number of side quests is substantial, and will literally take hundreds of hours to complete. This is game where at the beginning you really have to pick your fights carefully. If you expect to take on hundreds of soldiers and cut them down like bundles of wheat, you will be disappointed, as death comes quickly to the unprepared.
One final note, I highly recommend downloading the fan-made COAS Combined Mod 3.1.5 which fixes a number of bugs and glitches, massive graphic overhaul, a modified trade system so you may be a peaceful ply the seas, adds 12+ new playable characters and questions, a plethora of new items and weapons, and most importantly dozens of new ships and sea battle capability. This pushes the game install well over the 15 GB range. Even after the main quests are finished (which are incredibly complicated), there are still many new areas to explore.
Play as Captain Jack Sparrow and defeat Davey Jones and the Flying Dutchman!
Date: 2010-04-15
This game DOES work in Windows 7!
For those of you having problems playing this game in Windows 7, blame Microsoft and it's security features! This game runs perfect in Windows 7 both 32 AND 64 bit, just don't install it to C:\Program Files\. Install instead to something like C:\Games\City of Abandoned Ships\ it will run just fine from there! Microsoft in it's infinite wisdom decided to treat everything installed in C:\Program Files\ as protected operating system files, and to access programs or files in those directories properly, you must either be logged in as Administrator or set everything to run as Administrator. Save yourself the headache and install it to C:\Games\ instead!
There are a few other technical issues I won't get into here, but if you want real support for this game, go to http:\\www.piratesahoy.net! Playlogic's marketing and support for this game have been absolutely pathetic and almost non existent! This game is not perfect, but it is a very good game and well worth the original $30 price tag, for $10, it's a steal!
Date: 2010-04-05
Incompatible with Windows 7!
might be fun, but I will never know... Even with Windows 7 claim to be backward compatible, I guess some game software is written so it doesnt matter...
Date: 2009-12-20
Technical Nightmare
Inserted the game disc, slow load, then a skull appears, then.......BLACK....
No matter what I have done to remedy the problem, nothing works......
Maybe the game should have been named Life In A Cave........wow, I can hear the Bats flying around my head....
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