Pirates: Rule the Caribbean!
“You forgot one very important thing mate. I’m Captain Jack Sparrow.”
- Pirates of the Caribbean
Okay, so you’re not Jack Sparrow, but old World Caribbean pirates have often been viewed in a romantic light. As such, many games have attempted to grant people a portal into this past – some good, some bad – and Zynga has followed suit with the adaptation of their classic RPG game to the realm of Davey Jones.
Pirates: Rule the Caribbean! is a standard RPG in which you loot and plunder the tropical seas in search of gold, power, and wenches. Players begin with a familiar set of resources such as health, energy, gold, etc that are used to manage how much of a certain action they can take. Of course, if they aren’t familiar, the designers have been kind enough to provide new users a quick and dirty walk through the basics.
In order to advance in level, the player must “Plunder!” This is the equivalent to quests or jobs in other titles that require various items and “crew members” (friends) to complete. Any items the player needs can either be found in the Armory for purchase, or sometimes, if you’re lucky, looted as a reward from a quest. However, if this sort of thing is too laid back for your bloodthirsty endeavors, you can always pick a fight with other pirates as you vie for the dominance of your own skallywag fleet.
If this all sounds a bit like déjà vu, and you are looking for something completely different from other RPGs, then you won’t find it here. The key draw to Pirates is the style of the game, but in the end it only comes down to new graphics and names (i.e. instead of being healed in a hospital or infirmary, you get healed in a “brothel”). Regardless, the art is nice to look at and the game is just as entertaining as any of Zynga’s other RPGs.
RPGs are a difficult beast to deal with when it comes to making them different due to tremendous amount of game balancing that needs to be done (leveling, combat, statistics, etc). More often than not, even mainstream role playing titles use very similar elements.
Take, for example, a franchise like Square Enix’s Final Fantasy series. Each game tends to have very similar basic elements (turn based combat, random encounters, party of three), but often very different core mechanics (most noticeably magic and leveling). VIII had the controversial “drawing” system where you stole magic from enemies to strengthen your characters, VII had the renowned “materia” mechanic that let you customize via bejeweled equipment (using any number of combinations that granted countless abilities), and XII had a completely different live-combat system. The point is, these games stood out due to different game play elements. They were all “different flavors of ice cream” but they were all still “ice cream.” As far as the Zynga RPGs go, they are not really different flavors so much as they are the same flavor with different toppings.
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Please add me to your crew. I am level 19 with 21 crew and maxed out offensive and defensive equipment and ships for all of my crew. I beat all crews 23 and lower. I am generous and help my crew members. Please add me to your Pirates: Rule the Caribbean crew. I also play Mafia Wars, Mobsters, Mobsters 2, Farmville, Farm Town, and believe it or not Sorority Life (started to help out wife then liked it). Please add me as a friend and then invite me to any or all of these. Thanks, Dave
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While this does not seem to be a forum intended for recruiting I will follow the lead of others. I am a daily player who limits himself to playing only Pirates and Farmville. I am a quality crewmember at lvl 67 as of right now 4:12 pm on October 27, 2009.
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I just started Pirates and I need a crew. Will you please join me and I will join you as well! Thank you! Black Rose
I need more tridents to complete a end of level boss, they are dropped as loot but which level and job are they dropped on?