Sid Meier's Pirates! Live the Life PC Game

In Pirates! you take the leading role of a Pirate Captain in the 17th century Caribbean, amassing fortune and fame in an attempt to seize your rightful place as one of the most revered and feared pirates in history.

Test your skills as a Sea Captain, exploring the high seas and exotic ports in a richly detailed
3D world. Overtake the enemy and seize valuable booty.

Exchange plank-shattering broadsides in fierce naval battles, and engage in duels with worthy opposing captains.

This new Pirates! carries on with the great gameplay and design simplicity of the award-winning original, while adding more challenging and exciting battle options.

Pirates! offers a deeper and more varied role-playing experience that includes multiple paths to a wealthy retirement.

This, and many other features and additions, make this gaming classic one of the most highly anticipated releases of this century!

Swashbuckling Features!

• Experience an all-new story built upon the most fun and compelling features of the original Pirates game.
• Live out multiple quests through a non-linear and open life timeline where every decision poses distinct challenges and possibilities.
• Witness the consequences of your actions in current events throughout the Pirates! world.
• Battle, overtake, and command 27 different ship types, enhanced with assorted ammo, cannon, and other upgrades.
• Take on various foes including merchant and military captains, ferocious pirates, evil gentry, and even rival suitors, each with different skills and abilities.
• Confront enemies on board ships, in seedy taverns, on the ramparts, and even at the Governor's mansion.
• Wield weapons or anything within your reach, as you fence against foes. Engage in fierce naval battles fighting single enemies or multiple ships.
• Sneak into towns, escape out of prisons, navigate around adversaries, and surprise unsuspecting vessels.
• Dispatch landing parties of buccaneers in strategic battles to take over entire cities. Increase your riches and impress the governor's daughter with your charm, fame, and heroism, even your dancing abilities.
• Collect items like swords, spyglasses, armor, hats, and coats that improve skills or provide other new benefits, and view them in a new inventory system.
• Enhance your gameplay experience with downloadable content including flags, sail emblems, character skins, and more.

Sid Meier's Pirates! Minimum System Requirements

• Windows 98, XP, or Vista
• Pentium 1.0GHz CPU
• 256MB RAM
• 1.2GB Free Hard Disk Space
• 4X Speed DVD-ROM drive
• Graphics: 64MB video card with Hardware T&L support (device should be compatible with DirectX version 9.0b or higher)
• Windows compatible sound card (device should be compatible with DirectX version 9.0b or higher)