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For years now we have seen many movies become games and many characters become playable, mainly of which have come from Disney. Again Pirates Of the Caribbean At Worlds End is no exception, like the movie it is the final instalment in a trilogy of three games however all of those games have never passed the 5/10 mark in the ratings. Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End, was an Ok film that has been translated into a mediocre game with the same jokes and stale characteristics as the movie. That’s not to say that the previous movies are bad Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl, was a great film because of the breath of fresh air it is (we hadn’t seen anything like it). But the next two films were used as a way to obtain large sums of money from fans around the world. Anyway to the game, it’s one of those games where they hire the best impersonators and use the best video effects to make it look and sound just like the movies however this doesn’t always work, the creators don’t always take into account how it will play when burned to a disk.

The game starts at the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean Dead mans chest, it starts you off as Jack Sparrow the scurvy pirate legend who has been taken prisoner on a large creepy looking island prison, you must complete the tutorial, that includes fighting a few bad guys, climbing a few cliffs and learning to shoot your flintlock pistol. The level is slow and dull with the fights involving a one button combat system that fails to excite. Throughout the game you are faced with mini duels that are reasonably dull and somewhat stupid looking. You are given a side on view (that of a fighting game) with three circles on screen, you and your foe take turns in bashing at one another with your cutlasses keeping an eye on the little circles on screen and tapping the button that corresponds with the ones that appear in those circles in order to attack and defend. This becomes a somewhat tedious and boring task when your going at it for 10 mins. In Pirates 3, you are offered to play as a variety of characters from Jack Sparrow to Will Turner and a good few more that is one of the finer points in the game however character changing happens during the level when you hit a button in order to change. The idea behind this is that you must keep all the characters alive. Looking after 3 at once can be a somewhat difficult task and making matters worse is that once a character is lost you must start the mission again from last save.

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