

While sailing across the sea, players are responsible for steering, raising and lowering sails, monitoring crew and prisoners, and managing cargo and armaments.Ĭomputer-controlled characters will tag along while players enter towns and travel across islands, and even join in on fights. As in titles like Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, the action is divided into two parts: sailing and visiting islands or towns.

As players become more proficient at sailing, their attributes will gradually increase and non-player characters may join their ranks. Players begin the game by creating a character with limited skills in the areas of ship control, trading, fighting, and various other traits. Those with a taste for blood and vengeance can become a bounty hunter, or the true freedom of a pirate's life can be enjoyed with no strings attached. Players can work for a European power to lead a squadron, or forgo the pillage and plundering altogether for merchant sailing. The player's career is not locked into one path, however. Blending role-playing elements with the strategy of ship-to-ship combat, Pirates of the Caribbean offers players a chance to set sail on the high seas as a treasure-hunting pirate.
