Sid Meier's Pirates!
Based on Sid Meier's original masterpiece, Pirates!, Sid Meier's Pirates! has you facing countless dogged enemies, wooing fair maidens and raising the Jolly Roger on the high seas in pursuit of riches…
Sid Meier's Pirates! is an adventure developed by Firaxis Games, released 22 November 2004 on iOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone. It currently starts at $1.49 at GOG. The main story takes about 14 hrs to finish.
What Sid Meier's Pirates! is
Sid Meier's Pirates! is an adventure game developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2004. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on iOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone. It runs on Gamebryo.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sid Meier's Pirates! is a 2004 strategy, action and adventure video game developed by Firaxis Games. A remake of Sid Meier's earlier 1987 game of the same name, it was originally published by Atari Interactive, but in May 2005, 2K acquired the rights to the title from Atari's parent company Infogrames and later went on to publish console and handheld ports.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sid Meier series
Sid Meier's Pirates! is the 14th of 41 entries we hold in the Sid Meier series. The next entry was Sid Meier's Pirates! in 2005. Its critic score of 83 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Sid Meier's Civilization IV at 95.
How it was received
Sid Meier's Pirates! holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 120 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $1.49, that works out to about $0.11 per hour of the main story, or $0.08 per hour if you finish everything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.49 at GOG, 85% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Sid Meier's Pirates! launched on 22 November 2004, within three weeks of Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords and World of Warcraft. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sid Meier's Pirates! yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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