Sid Meier's Pirates! Live the Life (Xbox, 2005)

This is one of the greatest Real Time games I have had the joy of playing, you start out as a young boy whose family is taken into slavery by the evil Marquis, but you run away and become a pirate. you rescue family members, defeat pirates, find there treasure, find lost cities, fall in love, and sack entire towns! with great graphics, great sea battles and bording action, along with a fun multiplayer mode, I recomend you join the Pirates today Matey!

This is a game I liked to play on the computer a long time ago. It is very much like a game for the PC, called HighSeas trader 2000. I used to play it about 15 years ago. I don`t know if Sid Meier`s made that version or not.Pirates is a little repetative in the danceing mode, and the fighting on the ships, sword style battles, are to easy, and are the same graphics over and over. I love the trading options with other ports. Survival is the key idea.It`s sad that you can find the pirates on the top 10 list in about the first 2 hours of the game.I was expecting it to be much better in the area of ,different on ship battles.I only have a choice of 5 ratings,I would only give it an average . I only played it for about 5 hours total and have not played it any more.

I bought this game because of a similar title I bought in the 80's for the Commodore 64/128. In this game as well as the one from the 80's you take the role of a pirate captain with the goals of amassing wealth, prestige, finding lost family members and last but not least tracking down the villain resposible for you and your families woes. This game is quite fun to play but you must act quickly or you will become too old and ill to complete it, as your character ages as the game progresses. This game is very challenging at the rogue captain level as you cannot just beat everyone silly in the sword fights, your opponents actually have some skill at this level. To win your bride to be you must become proficient at hitting the correct buttons in time to the music during the ballroom dance sequences. The ship to ship combat is pretty basic, get in a couple of good broadsides with the right ammo and the ship is yours. Henry Morgan's "Queen Ann's Revenge" is about the best warship you can capture and not upgrade, its a large frigate class. Only real tic I had with this game was the amount of time that burns up when you have to sail against the wind, because in this game time is your biggest enemy. it affects your crew morale, your health and speed in a swordfight, and your ability to catch the evil Count who holds the info to find your family. Overall, this is a good game and will keep you entertained for days.

Game is fairly easy to play but fun. If you have a few hours to spare you can complete the game. It was fun trying to find lost relatives, hidden treasure, and ancient citiies while sailing around in your own ship. You can actually attack other ships, some give up and some want a real fight ( hand to hand combat sword fights) The opposing pirates were easy to defeat. The game starts out on a variety of levels for you to chose from but gets harder as you age ( like you do in real life). I recommend it for fun but i believe in my opinion the game could of had a better story line and more difficult tasks than rescueing the governors daughter once you get her to like you.

I like that the game is fairly open ended and you can do whatever you want. It's just like Pirates Gold for the sega genesis with updated graphics. Great game.

It is an ok game. The PC version is much better though.

I bought it for the head to head play on the xbox, which is disappointing.

i received the item within 4 days of paying for the item. the seller shipped the item and left me an email on the exact day that i paid for it. i had been looking for this game for my stepson for a long time and could not find it at a reasonable price until this item. would definately buy from the seller again.

awsome!!! had it since the game came out. can't put it down!!! highly recomend this role playing game!!!

Pirates has a lot of different things you can do, such as fight other ships, buy and sell cargo for profit, land battles, treasure hunting, even dancing(!!). The gameplay is open-ended so you can choose to play however you like, you can just attack every ship you see if that's what you're into! It keeps you entertained and it has that "OK just ONE more quest before I turn it off" addictive quality. I gave it a 4 because some of the action can become repetitive, e.g. when you do swordfight after swordfight it gets a bit old, but overall its good fun.

the classic pirates games were good and the new one is just amazing. The open ended gameplay is great. You do pretty much what you want. As the character ages, his reflexes get duller so you better duel all the pirates while you're young. The game is just great, nothing else to say. I haven't met one person that can say anything bad about this game. Everyone that picks up the controller is hooked instantly. Do yourself a favor and don't buy this if you have alot of work to do for school or something. Trust me on that

10/10

EXCELLLENT SELLER!!!!!! Quik delivery, product exactly as described, would definatly buy from again!

its and ok game... i have such a hard time writing all this to where i have to give like whatever how many words...........................................................................

i received the game very quick, no scratches, almost every other game ive gotten off ebay ive had trouble with and ive had to complain about but this one was very good and well packaged.

this is a fairly good game. one of the better games for the original xbox.
worth buying. the game is a fairly long game which usually is a good thing and that makes for having fun when you dont want the action to stop.

i like how fast the game play is compared to a pc game witch i also have, some things very story line is the same overall great game

Have you dreamed of being a pirate? Do you wish you wore a patch over one eye and carried a parrot on your shoulder? Do you have nightmares of having your ship sunk in the middle of the Caribbean? Well then this game is for you. It has everything you need to be the pirate you ever wanted PLUS it has the BEST AI engine written by Sid Meier. If you are a fan of his other work (Civilization etc.) then you will love this game too. You get to fight with a sword. Use your fleet of ships to take over the Caribbean and fire your cannons. Choose your side and decide what factions you want to help and which ones you want to plunder. (Yes this game is open ended) Conduct trade to make extra coin. You also get to do battle with some the the greatest pirates of all time. All while you are trying to find your long lost family that where kidnapped when you were a child. I really enjoy this game a lot. Lots of different challenges rolled into one game. The graphics are GREAT! The sound is wonderful. (Although some voice acting would have been a nice touch) The action is unlimited. The difficulty levels are wonderful and allow you to set the game up to be as challenging as you need it. AND the replay value on this game is unlimited. Try to become the most fears pirate on the Caribbean Sea!!!

I was a bit disappointed to pay $12 for shipping and have the item take 15 business days to arrive. Though international shipping will always lag, and the seller has little control over the mail. However, I was greatly pleased when I got the item because it was exactly as described and works very well. I would trust this seller to honestly and accurately describe the items for sale.

I like the game its really fun. This person has really fast shiping and it was brand new just like it said.

I had this game as a child on the macintosh system. To find it on xbox and have it still follow the oringal game is just awesome. It takes a few minutes to get used to the controls but once you do the world is your oyster. This is a game everyone should check out.

This game is spell binding, and before you know it hours have passed playing the game. You will have to do alot of reading in the scenarios, and visiting the governors, barmaids, and bartender gets old after awhile, especially dancing with their daughters, but overall its a good game.

This game is addictive. Yeah, it's not next gen, but when you download the Xbox360 patch to allow you to play all the older games, it's one you should definitely add to your library.

I popped it in, and twelve hours later, I still wasn't tired of it. The wideopen scope of the game lets you decide how you want to play.

I'd love to see an updated version of this for the 360!

Really good game. There are many different things you can do each time you start a new game, kinda like a rpg game. score 8.5

great game, mailed very quickly, price was very reasonable, buy from this guy for sure im not sure what else i can say about the product or their seller except that they seem very relieable