POTC may not be everyones cup of tea, for me I love play'n the game with mods.I don't spend much time on land exploring, many people wanted that feature, so it was left in. Prefer to be out on the open sea loot'n an pluder'n, sacking the occasional fort and town.Interface may seem junky to someone new,I'm used to it since I've played the game since release and startrd tweaking and modding the game to my own tastes. As for the world map, the additional Islands were imported to game from Russian mod, as there are to few islands in vannila game.
Doesn't look to be a decent pirate game released to soon other than ones already mentioned.
Pirates Of The Burning Sea looks very promising, but is an online game only unfortunatly.In the meantime will continue play'n SH4
