I have been a Sid meirs pirates player for over 36 years and I have to say, this game satisfies my pirate itch. Don’t let the goofy animi at first fool you. The battles are preety cool, except boarding animi battles, but those are rare. The map, OmFG! Sid meirs pirates on heroin and steroids. It’s the whole frigin world! Literally. You will sail forever finding routes, finding pirates, doing missions at ports, rpg characters that really matter that you take onboard, tons of equipment for your crew and ship to modify. No fantasy crap, except for the animi interaction with Mocs, but you won’t care. So many things to do and discover. You have to plan your routes with supplies, everything. Land expeditions, you name it. Been playing for over 5 days a few hours a day and I have only mapped half the world so far. Map is awesome. Hidden gem, trust me! Oh forgot to mention, all ships are represented by their region. I am Portuguese with my home port of Lisbon and I have carracks now, cool European look, and then sail way the hell over to Asia and fight pirates and Asian junk war ships, Arabs has their own, Europe, Indonesia, etc. now that is how you do a review 👍
