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Loading ...Pirates of the Burning Sea
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I’ve been following this game for a while but the recent announcement of a release date (Jan 22nd 2008) made me look up a but more detail on the site (www.burningsea.com)
It seems very similar to pirate sims like Age of Pirates: Carribean Tales but obviously leans to the MMORPG genre and all that this entales. What amazed me is the internal economy of the game. Everything you use will have been made by another player.
Your cannon balls would have been made by another player using materials sourced from yet another player in his mines. Even the rum you drink would have been distilled by another player in his factory. It seems everything has value and can be made, sold or traded or used to cut someone’s throat! Pretty amazing stuff - not sure how it compares to other games like this but the icing on the cake is that it’s a fully fledged pirate combat simulator too with small skirmishes ranging to huge battles, both sea and land based.
The graphics from the stills I’ve seen look good too, not Crysis good but certainly enough to keep those few brain cells not selling, buying or trading or fighting happy.
If you haven’t already done so, pop over to the site or read Phil’s review for CPC here. It’s gonna be big!
I’ve heard a fair bit about this game from over on Kotaku. Must admit it dose seem rather good. It’s nice to see a more diverse range of MMO style games instead of the “lord of the rings” styles hobbit and dwarfs. Thats why I liked the look of “City Of Heroes”.
But the Pirates…..hell I’m tempted to get that. Well depending on sub fees.
That’s exactly me point of view too - I’ve never played one of these massively multiplayer online etc etc games as the subject has never appealed to me. But pirates could be cool!
I’ll buy the first round in the Tavern then where we can discuss PC’s and who we can flog this shipment of pistols too!
Sounds good man, I (if I got the game) would go Captain Jack tiny wee boat. But with a cannon big enough to take out a small country.
….and rum….lots and lots of rum.
i never understand games with fully fledged complex economies in them - why not go outside and actually do it for real and make a bit of dollar?
@william
And where exactly can you make and sell cannonballs? :p
The whole point of MMORPG’s is playing in a FANTASY world isnt it?