Ooo... Looks nice. In fact, at face value it looks almost perfect. And the screenshots look gorgeous. I note the ships have names shown on them, and I really hope we'll be able to name our own. But the sea could use some more work - it looks a bit... regular.
I particularly liked the comments in the interview with the developer on Pirates Ahoy:
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"We want to make a more rugged, brutal and raw depiction of the era. [...] We are consciously making an effort to separate EIC from the funny and romantic style pirate games usually use."
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Well, amen to that: at the risk of sounding repetitive, the cheerful panto piracy of
Sid Meier's Pirates! really does annoy me, for all the game's otherwise great.
But... it does seem to be a while since the EIC website was updated - the latest screenshots are dated 8 Sep 2006. So it's more a question of have
they forgotten it?
:hmm: