Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas

The Good
Great battles on land and sea and a very long play time

The Bad
Occasionally crashes, hard to steer more than one ship and marines move very slowly

The Bottom Line
Now unfortunately it's out of the shops but you can still buy it over the internet. It's a great game if you're into piracy and the caribbean and it's not directed at any general gamer. It has a large land and sea mass in the game with about 50 or more prots to plunder, loot and burn and thousands of different ships sailing, ranging from small merchant ships to convoys and galleons to the dreaded pirate hunters there are many to sink, capture and also avoid and runaway from :)

The ship's flags play a big part in this game as well and there are five nations all fighting over the Caribbean. Raise the same flag as the ship and you can put up a useful secondary flag like request food and truce but raise a rival country's flag and you may as well just hoist up the jolly roger.

When you decide to loot a port try to find the right one, don't attack a heavily fortified spanish port if you only have a couple of cannons and a handful of men look for a small port with only a few guards. The main goal of the battle is to either make the town surrender or loot the town (always try to get the treasury and governor's house) and/or burn it but beware the wind can carry smoke and alert the guards

The game did start off with alot of bugs and crashed basically all the time but all you need is the latest patch( 7.0) and nearly all the bugs are fixed.

The graphics on the land are not brilliant, but considering it is quite an old game this is acceptable.

After getting the patches and playing till I was a pirate king I would give this game a total of 9 out of 10.