Choice of Broadsides (A Text-Based Adventure)

by Choice of Games

Product Description

Choice of Broadsides is a text-based adventure where your choices control the story. On most pages, you'll choose between a set of options, determining which action you will take next as a young and promising naval officer.

If you like gamebooks, you'll love Choice of Broadsides. Its unique approach to interactive fiction allows larger, deeper, and richer stories than traditional gamebooks. Will you discover all of the hidden endings? Will you become an admiral, or will you be court-martialed? When on shore, will you marry for love or for career advantage, or will you leave aside romance and spend your time gambling and dueling? The choice is up to you.

The sails have been hoisted and the guns run out as the enemy ship approaches. Your country is counting on you!

Product Details

• Version: 1.3 (What's new in version 1.3)
• Release Date: October 10, 2012
• File Size: 967 kB
• Language: English
• Publisher: Choice of Games
• Sold by: Choice of Games
• ASIN: B004FRH3PO
• Publisher License: Read
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (93 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,485 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #82 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor & Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Role Playing & Fantasy

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun, and an amazing deal! January 22, 2011

By Dang Lad

Amazon Verified Purchase

Picked this one up for the Kindle when I saw it featured on their twitter account, and I'm extremely glad that I did. This interactive book is a great combination of period adventure writing, gaming, and choose-your-own adventure. They have a very unique and inventive element that reports your skill/mastery among several different categories including "fighting," "leadership," and "sailing." The book initially asks you a series of questions to get your base line numbers, and you quickly learn that you must keep them in mind when choosing your path, or risk failure or death.

The amount of choices is more than apt, and you almost always find a fitting response. I used to always be torn in traditional CYOA books because you often didn't feel one way or the other. With 4 or more choices, you never feel pigeon-holed.

Above the gaming and interactive portion of the book, I actually really enjoyed the writing. I know almost nothing about sailing and ranks, but the text almost forces you to role play. It's also phenomenal being able to rely upon the Kindle dictionary when you see a word you're not familiar with.

All-in-All, this is a hihgly engaging book that really brings you into the character. You can't beat the value, and I would definitely pick this up ir you have a Kindle and any interest what-so-ever in fantasy.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun but short lived December 31, 2010

By A Customer

You will finish this adventure in about thirty minutes. It is worth no more than five dollars. It was fun and I would buy another if the subject interested me.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Choice of Broadsides: Entertaining and varied January 16, 2011

By Eleanor Reeds

Choice of Broadsides is an entertaining adventure, and a bargain at 99 cents. The story is complex and varied, and the choices you make have actual consequences throughout the tale. There's a lot more reading with this one than, say, Choice of the Dragon, and it took me about a half-hour to complete the first time around. It's taken me about that long each time; there's a lot of new material with each different choice. And that's why I've given it five stars--the choices matter, it's well written and surprising at times, and it's just a lot of fun. I think the length is perfect--you have time to do a couple of stories in a sitting, and for me, that's part of the allure of these things... I like to see just how different a story I can create each time.

My eleven-year-old has also played this one-- it's definitely appropriate for her age group--but she doesn't find it as entertaining as I have, and tends to play Choice of the Dragon much more often.

Very highly recommend. I mentioned this thing is on sale for a buck, right? Totally worth it.