Customer Reviews

Pirates- The Legend of Black Kat

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I bought this game mostly because it seemed somewhat similar to one of my favorite classic games from SSI for 8-bit 6502 based computers: Broadsides. The similarity between the two games ends with the sea battles between sailing warships. "Pirates" is definitely a faster paced action game with two distinct categories of action: on land and on the sea. The land portion is a rather typical 3rd person hack/slash jumper type fighting game featuring different land enemies with the occasional boss thrown in. The land portion involves searching for loot and navigation components in the form of treasure chests. A fairly simple puzzle type problem keeps you guessing a bit with chests hidden in difficult to access areas or buried. In the case of buried chests, an interesting use of the controller vibrator is used to indicate how close you are to the secret spot. I personally like the sea fighting portion much more. This portion features gorgous 3D graphics with lots of detail in the ships (yours and enemy), and the surrounding environment. In the water with you are schools of fish which you can see swimming just under the surface, dolphins jumping, sea gulls flying, etc. You can also make out much of the detail on enemy ships, as well as features on land. In the water, you fight against different enemy ships and land based fortresses. It's very satisfying to be able to upgrade your ship and install more cannons for truely great broadside shots! In all, I'm happy with this game. My only complaints: all enemies pretty much respawn automatically & predictably. They're not especially intelligent either. The character control in the land portion isn't perfect. Sometimes, the games "walks" the character instead of performing a "run" with the left analog stick pushed to diagonal limits.

This game is fantasy meets Pirates! A fun but not technically difficult game of exploring "other world" islands. The captain mode, where you walk around, can be a bit tedious and the sword play a bit elementary. The ship mode, however, is amazing. Try battling three rouge pirate ships while getting shelled by a fortress at dusk! The graphics are lush and amazing. The camera angles need improvement, and at times make it almost impossible to accomplish a task. Also, the quests can be a bit cheezy with their fantasy orientation, i.e. finding a voodoo doll to battle a voodoo master and his skeleton gaurds. If you liked the original Pirates! and don't mind the fantasy aspect of the game- buy it!

I'm not much of a video game player (my fave games are Tropico and the Sims), but when my fiance and I got the xbox, this was the one game in the store that looked like something I could get into. I loved that the pirate was a woman, and that there weren't 400 different fighting techniques to memorize. The quest/exploration aspect of the game is interesting and pretty challenging for a beginner, and I like the detail to the graphics in the sea battle scenes a lot. I'd rather kill giant crabs and banshees (and the occasional pirate) than draw blood and guts in some of the more realistic games. The only thing that disappointed me is that the 2 player aspect of the game is only available in a sea battle, as rival ships. Otherwise I expect to be a "weekend player" of this game for a long time to come.

This game is sooooo much fun. Kat's moves are very basic so you don't have to spend a ton of time learning annoying combos in order to hurt enemies. The lands you travel to are all very different and I thought they improved as they went on, even the details such as whales in the sea and frogs on land were amazing!!This game is challenging in the sense that you constantly have things to do so your searching for like 4 different things at a time but it isn't soooo challenging that you will get frustrated and give up! Great graphics and storyline are also a definite bonus!!!

tired of the same first person shooting blood and gore this game is a pretty cool alternative theres still fighting but its more like a sinbad movie and id say the whole family male or female could enjoy it i love the games graphics and story as a female pirate u travel to new islands defeating giant crabs skeltons ghosts etc and opening up new quests part of the fun is sea battles were u can shoot it out with other pirate ships and take thier loot this game has a feel and charm many others have yet to capture and its the best pirate game ive seen

HERE;S THE DEAL, IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A MONKEY ISLAND TYPE GAME, WELL THIS ISNT IT, BUT IF YOU WANT A SOLID REAL-TIME RPG THAT IS QUITE DIFERRENT FROM WHATS OUT THERE, THIS IS FOR YOU. PURE AND SIMPLE, AS ALWAYS.

This is one of my favorite recent video games. I have to admit, I'm not an avid XBox game player, but I totally loved this game. It reminds me a lot of the King's Quest and Space Quest type Sierra-brand computer games-- the really good old ones. Pirates Black Kat has great graphics, interesting game play, and totally had me hooked for several weeks. It's hard enough to be really fun but not so hard as to be impossibly frustrating. 5 Stars from me!

all the battles after you got a great ship are all alike and quite easy with the wind boost. I got stuck after meeting jack frost and there were no more islands to visit after that secret island..i tried a few more times to find a way to move to the next set of islands but i gave up and sold the game on ebay. Its a good game but maybe...a bit too long. Get it used and cheap and its worth it ... but full price?? i dont think so.

This has got to be every pirate-sailor's dream! The impressive grafics are only matched by the lay-out & game plan. The multi-quest adventure allows one to seek options, while challenging them to truly "prove themselves". I'm not sure who has enjoyed it more....myself or my wife! (She insists that SHE's "Kat")!

Pirates - Legend of Black Kat is a decent game. Average graphics with average combat with average islands. It's certainly not a BAD game, but it just isn't all it could have been. Two points of mention though - the water looks amazing, and ship battles are pretty cool