good
It wasn't too bad...I feel like being nice today.
Reviews for "Pirate Race"
it was fun to start with
after a while it got boring and really hard.
is ok
game is ok dont see what everyones problem with it is i mean the controlls are fairly simple left right keeps your boat going if you cant figure out that you have to keep pushing left right maybe you dont have the inteligence to play this game
and the music was FUGING AWSOME GOOD OLDSCHOOL TECHNO
Yarr!
For the record, it seems I've made a habbit of writing reviews as I play through the game, maybe I just want to save time. Anywho;
First of all, the music, just horrible. Why the hell is everything rave now? Why not a sea shanty or someting? Is it because everyone is so damn talentless that they just throw together a few sounds on a computor and call it music? The controls were rather problematic, a pirate ship wouldn't have to row anyway, unless said pirates were vikings or somehing, and last time I checked, Vikings didn't have cannons. Right, back to the music now, I think it just became the sims theme, but thats neither here nor there, back on topic I think. Actually, back to the controls, I'm starting to get the hang of this, you need to keep it so both sides are rowing at the same time, simple, eh? The gameplay is actually quite fun, the graphics were a little disapointing at first, but hey, it's a top down race, they tend not to have good grahpics anyway, and surprisingly, I'm actually starting to like this, despite the historical innacuracy which usually I'd go crazy and kill several puppies about.
Overall, this is quite a fun time-wasting game, but if you don't like rave on a loop, do yourself a favour and turn the music off. Now, I'm going to play this some more, and that's bloody rare. Oh, and of course I wasn't serious about puppy killing, that's just wrong.
And for the hell of it, on a political stance here; Yarr, pirate be better than ninjas!
Entertaining but buggy.
Not sure if you programmed some of these in on purpose or they are bugs but here goes..
1) Cannonballs flying in from the side of the screen appear randomly
2) If i lose a game, and click "try again" i instantly get a random amount of gold (Usually 6000+) before the race (I buffed up my ship nicely ha ha)
3) Sometimes I can row over the long islands, lol
4) Upgrading the ship is inconsistent between races, e.g after winning a race level 6 cannons to level 7 costs xxx gold, level 7 to level 8 costs 1xxx gold, level 8 to level 9 costs 3xxx gold and so on.. but when i win the next race upgrading cannons from level 9 to level 10 costs xxx gold.
5)I know others have already said so but if you don't upgrade your ship normally (i.e. not "trying again" and haxing 6000 gold haha) asap you will get slaughtered. Maybe a bit more balance?
Controls: Maybe in the future, pressing up = row forwards, left and right = turn?
All that said, it kept me entertained for quite a while. Nice fast-paced music, colourful menu.
Good effort!!