Customer Reviews

LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Speaking as someone who has both Indiana Jones Lego Games, the Star Wars Lego with all 6 films, plus the Star Wars Clone Wars Lego, and Harry Potter Lego, this game was definitely a bit disappointing. First of all, the graphics are not as high of quality as the other games, especially in the little clips between each level. They're blurry and pixelated, which is not at all up to standards.

The concept of the game is about the same as the others. Go through each level collecting the various items, knuts, etc. in order to get to 100% and purchase characters and red legos. The levels are actually a lot shorter than in the other games, and hardly seem to take up any time at all. This is a bit disappointing, and yes, makes it easier to save the game if you have to do something else, but the other ones have much longer levels, especially since there are only 4 levels per movie in this game.

Another huge disappointment had to be the lack of minigames. Most of the lego games have mini games you can play outside of the levels, and so far I have yet to discover any of them. This is a huge disappointment to me because I actually love the mini games. It's like you get two games for the price of one because you can play the main levels and then play smaller games too. As far as I can tell, this game has none, which is hugely disappointing.

I think this game could have been amazing, but instead they rushed to put something together with the new movie coming out, and yes, the new movie is included in the game as well. If you like the other lego games, you will probably like this one, at least to play and have something decent to do. In my opinion, Harry Potter lego is still the best because the graphics are decent, you use the stylus to conduct spells, and in this one, you don't even need the stylus at all, kind of defeating the whole purpose of it being a Nintendo DS game.

My son is almost 5 years old and i primarily bought this game for him. He has several other DS games, but only the Lego is the Star Wars version. The Star Wars game was much easier for him to play and figure out on his own without much help. The game play was more intuitive, as you see a 'locked' door with a picture of the character that you need to be to open it.

My son initially found this game much more difficult to play. It is my fault i admit, i didnt notice the E for everyone rating with the 10+. Anyway, after the first week he wasn't much interested in it. But after i showed him a bit of the game play ( i love the game myself ) he is playing it well. He still occasionally needs help when he is stuck with one of the puzzles or cant figure out what to do next, but overall he loves it.

As for the comments about the blurry graphics in the cut scenes they are correct. Its not a reason to avoid the game, but is a bit disappointing. They could have definitely done better in this area.

I've played Lego Indiana, Star Wars and Harry Potter. This is the easiest of all of them, making it perfect after work brain-melter.

Stories: Hard to follow. They are extremely abridged and altered that its almost hard to distinquish that they are from the franchise.

Levels: Four movies, half having only four levels each.

Game play / challenge: This game does not get progressively harder. There is much redundancy (herding pigs, herding crabs, picking up stones) without increased challenge. The game tells you which player to choose for certain situations. The machines / mechanisms you use don't change and it is very easy to figure out what you need to do.

Overall: I think they short-changed the Lego franchise and the Pirates franchise by scrimping on the game play. They cut this game short. Harry Potter had so many levels and was so inventive on some of the tasks you needed to complete. This doesn't have any of it.

Pirates is a game you play when you just want to beat a game and burn brain cells. I'm playing it again so that I can use my full crew to get all of the goodies I couldn't get the first time around. I'll probably go back to Harry Potter and trade this towards something else...

Just got the game this week......30% finished with it. I think it's great!

PROS : The music selections from the movies are fun to listen to while you play. Jack Sparrow....LOVE HIM!!! Lego really nailed his character...with his running while leaning back, arms flailing. The game play is fairly straight forward.....running around looking for cursed coins, ships in the rum bottles, etc. I like the layout of the bottom screen, showing all your players available....changeable with the L and R buttons.

CON : The ONLY things that bug me are the little movie clips between the levels. They ARE a little blurry and could be cleaned up a bit. But I definitely wouldn't NOT buy the game based on this.

I'm finding this game to be pretty easy....but very entertaining. Played it WHILE watching Pirates 3....really fun to watch LEGO's version of the scenes and then the same movie scene on TV. My 6 (almost 7) year old son is playing this game too and he is finding some of it to be difficult. But it is the same with all Lego games for him. He is finding this much easier than LEGO Star Wars Clone Wars.

Overall....LOVE this game! Our copy came with a little Jack Sparrow LEGO figure that my son carries around with him all the time.

I bought this a few weeks ago and was SUPER excited. two of my faves coming into one: Lego video games + Pirates of the Caribbean= EPICNESS. That's what I was thinking. Here are some pros and cons of this game:

Pros:

quirky Lego animations

movie accurate characters

the Capt. Jack sparrow mimfig. is HILARIOUS (he's got swag!)

the great pirates score

Cons:

clips in between scenes are super blurry and pixelated

there is a black line around the characters during game play

when playing a level there is no following character

the levels are short and there is only 16 of them

it is was too easy (I have Lego StarWars 1-6 and Lego Indy 1-3)

no minigames

no gold bricks

at "port" you can't switch between characters like you can at Mos Eisley cantina or the university

the red brick, ships in bottles ect. are poorly hidden and way too easy to find

this is a pretty good game, but still kinda lame. I really wanted to love this game, but that is not possible.

First off. The price here is THE best. Son wanted to go to Gamestop the day this came out and we paid 39.99 for the game. I probably wouldn't be so upset if I had only paid 24.99.

Second. My son is 7 yrs old. He's beat Lego Harry Potter Yrs. 1-4, Indiana Jones 1 and 2 and Star Wars. BUT it took him days, even weeks for some of it. He beat Lego Pirates in just a few hours. He still enjoys it, but not at the level he would have if it was challenging to any extent at all.

You should buy it if you are a Lego game fan, buy it here and save yourself some money. It's not worth the extra 5 to 25 bucks you will spend getting it right now at the store. Just don't expect a really challenging game.

My kids received this for Christmas and love it. It is a entertaining game and good for many ages (my kids are in middle school and high school). Good quality that you would expect from Lego.

I purchased this game for my nephew for Christmas and he loves playing it. Shipping was speedy and the item was as described. I'm very pleased with the entire transaction!!!

I have loved the Lego games released over the last few years and this one is no exception. As a fan of the pirates movie I think it is neat how it follows all four of the movies too. There are a few spots in the game that I wouldn't have been able to figure out without the guide book... but overall it is a great game and a lot of fun to play.

The serves was realy good.the games was just what I expected.I received the game in good time.I enjoy the game a lot