Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Comments by Kristan Reed

Question: has Eurocom ever released a non-shit game?

By Xbot logic this game is MS fault.

Answer: Probably Not

(not the concrete answer you were looking for but, meh, you know its true)

Granted time of year etc etc Which is why I gave a nod to said fact in my original post.

Don't wish to appear overly critical as I rate Eurogamer very highly, but hows the Rainbow Vegas port coming along, what news of Driver which I hear is headed to PS3, why no review of Godfather for PS3??

Clearly time constraints are not the issue.......

To the four people who want this game:

You're on my list.

@Razzajazz
The problem with prejudices:

THQ - Dawn Of War
Movie licensed games - Goldeneye, Dead Rising (Come on its Dawn Of the Dead)

Er... Coudn't think of anything good associated with Titus tho...

PS2 version ain't half bad, actually. The guys obviously played God Of War, although it's not *that* good. I hope not only next-gen versions will get reviews.

@ Zuljin

THQ haven't been the same company for ages. I remember that back then they also made toys (THQ = Toy HeadQuarters). However they made a decision to focus on games, and since then they've improved immeasurably, and now I have no problem with them. I even bought Saints' Row!

Goldeneye is the exception that proves the rule! Everyone who makes licensed games should have to sit through a 'Goldeneye 101' course or something.

And, well, there's a reason that Titus arent around any more. Just thinking about them made me remember Titus The Fox, which was the most generic piece-of-shit platformer you could ever (mis)conceive.

I don't have prejudices, I just agree with the guy earlier (Poorandugly) that when I was young games wre a total and utter luxury, and as such you couldn't afford to spend time and money on the shitters! :)

Question: has Eurocom ever released a non-shit game?

TWINE64 and Family Feud.

well duh! obviously the reviewer

@Sajtion
I beg to differ.

Well, just goes to show; being average is pretty damn average.

Saw the trailer. I was disappointed that Jack had no facial animation while fighting. Looked a bit wooden and half-assed.

If Orlando Bloom looked a bit wooden and half-assed then the Devs have scored 100% accuracy.

He is the least likeable actor in recent years.

Thank you, Emilia'sHorse.

Now, the rest of you... I said, DISCUSS!!!

Orlando Bloom has to be the least likeable actor that I can think of. Well no, actually, but he is extraordinarily bland and not very likeable - that's for sure...

Discuss!

He minces and prances about in action movies like he's afraid he's going to mess up his manicure; in "straight" parts he's bland and stiff.

Orlando's pretty though, which means he'll have a long career in Hollywood or male modelling.

@sajtion

I played the demo. I personally thought it sucked ass and I didn't finish it. It looked very pretty but it bored me shitless and the combat was bloody awful. How does your world view explain that one?

You might have enjoyed the demo. Hurrah for you. It doesn't mean the author is either a smartass, or a moron, or an asshole. In my case, they hit the nail on the head. Maybe I'm all of the above too, or maybe, just maybe, preferences in games are ENTIRELY subjective. Its a long shot...

"well duh! obviously the reviewer"

Hmmmm.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/s...

You're welcome.

I see Johnny Depp, but I hear Tommy Cooper...

It's a shame the Athur and the Invisibles review didn't end bad movie games forever. Aw well. This is off my "Most wanted" list for show.

I thought the demo was surprisingly good (surprising because I was completely expecting to hate it beyond compare) so I pre-ordered the full game on the basis of it. I guess it remains to be seen how good the full product is but I got more enjoyment out of playing the demo for 30 minutes than I have in the entire 8 hours I've been playing Spider-Man 3 for example so I guess it just goes to show how different people's opinions can be.

Oh Look!

Another shit 360 game :-)

Huh? I had a good time playing the demo last night. Was certainly surprised to read the verdict. The combat looked just right and felt nicely relaxed to me.

I got the game today thanks to the lovely shopto.net, and, nrrgh, it's not that bad, just very easy and very unambitious. It's TMNT with pirates, basically.

Then again, having played Superman Returns recently, perhaps I just don't have the heart to be critical.

@Smelly:

Oh look, another troll!

;o)

I fear that one of the big downsides of this new generation of consoles is that even terrible games will often look fantastic. Hopefully that's where we come in...

It's not the monopoly of this generation. It stretches as far back as the 1st gen.

Don't rush games out to suit cinema release dates. This has always gone wrong since the very first film game adaptations in the 1980s.

I thought the demo was...ok, and was going to buy this for my kids...but i dont think i will now.
I'll spend the cash on beer instead. Does that make me a bad parent?

geord1o... only if you force your kids to drink it.

Yes Orlando Bloom is the least likeable actor in recent years.

Crap games like this should be Wii-exclusive.

/awaits the inevitable "STOP TROLLING!" comments

i don't like smelly

Arrrrrr
Yarrrrrr
Har-harrrr
etceterarrrr etceterarrr

I heard that the film has received an 'arrrrrrr' rating in America.

comments like these never fail to amuse me. boy, the laughter i got out of reading them.


someone should re-release Shaq-Fu for PS3 and XBOX360, and the Eurogamer reviewers should be FORCED to play it!

It'll show them that there are more horrible things than this! MUAHAHAHA!

Edited for grammarz

Er... Coudn't think of anything good associated with Titus tho...

They did release a Blues Brothers game in the early 90s which wasn't too bad.

I LIKE YOU, SMELLY.

@Darren

I got more enjoyment out of playing the demo for 30 minutes than I have in the entire 8 hours I've been playing Spider-Man 3

Perhaps that says more about Spiderman 3 than anything else :P

@reality_cheque - True...

Anyway, got the game this morning... appears to be identical to the demo so far (as expected I suppose) but with the addition of a lovely auto-save feature. Dunno whether it's because the game is loading off a DVD or not but I did notice some minor framerate hitches during the intro and at the start of the game which weren't present in the demo... not a deal breaker by any means but a bit odd all the same... maybe it's related to the auto-save...?

@smelly

"Oh Look!
Another shit 360 game :-)"

Platform fanboy.

I'm more concerned with finding out when Orlando Bloom turned into Ramirez from Highlander.

More like James Spader.

With a bit of fluff for a tache.

And thus the age old axiom that Licensed Games = Crap Games holds true. I'm waiting for the day when all licensed games just is a still from the film with the sound of hystical laughter being played over and over again.

>Platform fanboy.

Oh come on! I was merely taking the piss out of all the 360 fankids who go onto every wii thread! It was SUPPOSED to be a ironic (moronic) comment as it's coming out on pretty much all platforms - so saying it's platform specific was kinda retarded... See?

Meh, maybe i was being too subtle.

As for the game, just played the demo.. quite enjoyed it.. doubt i'd buy it full priced.. maybe budget.

@smelly

Well ok, I didn't get the irony. But I think we can probably share the blame for that one ;)

A lot of people didn't get the irony, smelly. Don't worry about it.

Maybe i need to be less subtle in future? :-)

I doubt it would make a difference, tbh.

...just finished the demo, very boring but one of the best looking games I've seen - that rain effect animated texture especially.

I thought as far as film tie in games go it was fairly average. It was really quite pretty in a lot of places, the voice acting wasn't as bad as some I've heard and it perpetuated some of the feel of the movies which is to some extent what most people are after when buying a film license game. The only thing that let it down was the combat which felt more clunky than it should and not nearly swashbuckly enough.

I think to give it a 3 is to forget some of the utter shite we've had to tolerate in the name of film licenses. Have we all forgotten Superman Returns? In fact every Superman game ever made? Not to mention that god-awful X-Men 3 shit.

I'd have given it more of a 5-6.

I'd say 5 or 6 too. Although the review got all the main problems correct they were written way to harshly, the game it isn't that bad. Just the combat is a bit dull.

I'm finding this game to be good fun and quite beautiful looking in places. It's certainly a lot better than Spider-man 3, and is worth a far better score than a 3/10. Krudster's got this one really wrong.

PS - I also noticed that Tesco are selling it for under £30.