Sid Meier's Pirates: Live the Life (Apple, 2008)

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Players will encounter an unusually wide array of challenges, from arcade-action-style battles, to strategic empire-building in the 17th-century Caribbean, to personality-driven role-playing. is designed to allow players to progress as they choose through a diverse selection of non-linear, individual missions, and challenges.

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Led by renowned developer Sid Meier, Firaxis reprises one of the most universally acclaimed titles of the early days of computer gaming. This 2008 Mac version of Sid Meier's Pirates! follows the multi-genre design of the 1987 original, while updating both presentation and gameplay with contemporarily cutting-edge technologies. Players take the role of an unremarkable ship captain who is destined for greatness. <br><br>As in the original game, players will set their own course toward this destiny, be it through diplomacy, subterfuge, or brute force. Sid Meier's Pirates! explores multiple aspects of a swashbuckler's life in the Caribbean during the Age of Sail, from fast-paced sword fights and naval combat, to ravenous raids of ports and merchants, to political manipulation of colonial powers in the region.<br><br>Pirates! players will encounter an unusually wide array of challenges, from arcade-action-style battles, to strategic empire-building in the 17th-century Caribbean, to personality-driven role-playing. Each new game develops along its own unique course, according to the decisions made, the victories attained, and defeats suffered.<br><br>Sid Meier's Pirates! is designed to allow players to progress as they choose through a diverse selection of non-linear, individual missions, and challenges. The player's choices and actions can have effects on the game world, however, and as they become more powerful and feared, captains will begin to see their influence all across the Caribbean. Each adventure spans the captain's entire lifetime, and the ultimate goal is to eventually retire, at a ripe old age, with as much wealth and status as possible.

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PublisherFeral Interactive
UPC0644247003426
eBay Product ID (ePID)70006186

Product Key Features

RatingE-Everyone
GenreAction & Adventure
PlatformApple
Game NameSid Meier's Pirates!: Live the Life

Additional Product Features

Release Year2008
Country/Region of ManufactureUSA
ESRB DescriptorAlcohol Référence, Suggestive Themes, Violence

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  • Best game ever

    The best game that came out in early 21st century. Highly replayable and still holds out even in 2021.

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  • does not work with mac

    does not work with mac OS

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