Windows

Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas

Overall, Cutthroats is highly playable, and its setup friendly enough that you can just install and start playing. Just a casual look at the instructions while installing, and you’ll be set for hours of ship-haggling, and nation-terrorizing. While the addition of a multiplayer component would increase its gameplay tenfold, even without it Cutthroats is a solid and enjoyable game, though the technical problems do need to be looked at right away.

Despite some problems, this is an excellent pirate game. While not everything is great, it all comes together to form an extremely fun and involving adventure on the high seas. Even though there's not much competition, Cutthroats simulates pirating as well or better than anything else.

De gameplay is natuurlijk het belangrijkste, en die is strak, maar de graphics stellen toch behoorlijk teleur. Je bent echter zo lang zoet met deze game dat eer je alles verkend en gespeeld hebt, er een grijze baard tot op je kruis hangt.

The game as a whole is a complex one. But the designers did a very good job of integrating the complexity seamlessly and fairly invisibly. You do have to micro-manage your ships and cargo, and the interface to do so could use a bit of streamlining. But other than that, Cutthroats offers a rewarding take on buccaneering. Enough of this. Words are for lily-livered landlubbers. Pirates speak through actions, and the high seas are calling the salt in my blood. Arrrrh!

Despite these faults, Cutthroats is not a complete failure and is fairly well presented (albeit in a not entirely convincing, old-skool 'Amiga' kind of way), with good music and decent atmosphere. Big-time pirate fanatics and budding historians cum real-time strategy nuts may find something of worth here, but your average PC gamer will undoubtedly lack the patience to get their money's worth out of Cutthroats.

Het spel zit propvol goede ideeën en zonder de bugs zou het, zelfs ondanks de matige handleiding, een klassespel geworden zijn. Nu rest me echt geen andere optie dan je dit spel af te raden, behalve als je in het bezit bent van een Internet account en je daarenboven niet stoort aan de massa's bugs in het spel!

When it comes right down to it, I was very excited about this game when I previewed it last month. There was some hope in my mind that the bugs would be ironed out. It turns out that the bugs are really just poorly implemented features. The idea behind the game is great, after all, Sid made a few bucks off of it, but the way it comes off in Cutthroats isn't very convincing. I love the added features, mostly in terms of ship combat, but the game fails to generate any sense of excitement. I'm glad to see that this genre is showing a slight resurgence, and Cutthroats is genuinely fun for the first few hours. After a while, playing it was unrewarding.

Тесто убежало, блюдо подгорело. Пир не удался. Кто-то поленился как следует замесить и перемешать, кто-то забыл положить нужные ингридиенты, а особо выдающаяся личность увеличила огонь в духовке. Знаменитый предшественник, который должен был выступить в качестве приманки, стал гвоздем в крышку гроба Cutthroats. Не спорьте, вы ведь сами знаете, что лучше Пиратов пока ничего нет. Зачем же кидаться на первые попавшиеся подачки? Сделай они свое собственное, со своими новинками, и их ласково бы погладили по макушке, похвалив за дерзкие, но пока безобидные начинания. А так... Пишите, я пришлю вам ТУ игру.

Tja, selbst 14 Jahre nach dem Ur-Pirates von Sid Meier verstecken sich etwaige hochwertige Nachfolger noch immer hinter dem Horizont. Das fängt bei den Seegefechten an, bei denen es wirklich ein Geduldsspiel ist, ein anderes Schiff zwecks Entern zu rammen. Dann können Sie eigentlich nur noch zusehen, wie die Mannschaftszahlen auf beiden Seiten sinken und hoffen, daß von Ihren Mannen welche übrigbleiben oder die andere Besatzung sich ergibt. Oft finden Sie zudem in den angelaufenen Häfen keine Waren, was schlecht für die Nahrungsversorgung der Besatzung ist. Deren Stimmung schlägt dafür extrem schnell um, und so ist Ihre Piratenkarriere oft rascher zu Ende, als man Sie kielholen kann. Ich spiele lieber Pirates! Gold

If you're into micromanagement and can stand simplified combat and poor graphics, Cutthroats should provide you with enough to keep you happy for a while. But if you're looking for a game that re-creates the drama and violence of 17th-century pirating, you won't find it here.

Seit Sid Meiers Pirates ist kein Piratenspiel mehr herausgekommen, das Flair gehabt hätte. Unter schwarzer Flagge bildet keine Ausnahme. Die Grafik ist mau, Steuerung und Menüstruktur sind unübersichtlich. In den staubtrockenen Mix aus Schmalspurhandel und Minimalstrategie bringt auch die nette Musik keinerlei Atmosphäre.

There are times in this game, such as when the interface can be overcome, where Cutthroats is an engaging experience. Unfortunately, these moments are few and brief. This is not a title with which you can sit down and immediately prosper. At first glance, it looks like this learning curve could be overcome and that enough time spent mastering the interface would reveal a fun pirates game. Well, upon further playing, you discover exactly the opposite: the more you play it the more you actually dreaded returning to it. After spending a few weeks in the world of Cutthroats, you might exceedingly anxious to pick up your cutlass and go swashbuckling...using your old copy of Pirates! Gold.

A game that aspires to greatness but shoots itself in the foot (in the pegleg?) with lots of loading screens and tedious segments that don't add to the experience. An exercise in frustration rather than privateering.