Age of Pirates 2 - City of Abandoned Ships ~ TechiOtaku

In Age of Pirates 2 - City of Abandoned Ships, the player has a choice of playing as one of the three available characters.

Two of the three characters are almost identical in both the storyline as well as performance. Ian and Diego start out their careers on a brutally battered ship under a state of amnesia.

The Last of the three characters, Mr. Blood, has the worst fate out of all three available characters. He starts out in England and he is a physician patching up some of the rebels. While the rebels lost, at least Blood was able to get some special treatment due to his medical background (the kind of special treatment that eventually open up some unforeseen opportunities.

If you are familiar with Bethesda's styles of games such as Morrowind, Oblivion and even Fallout 3, in Playlogic's Age of Pirates 2, you will notice some very familiar gameplay strategies. First of all, you have an open-ended story if you so chose it. While you can play as either a Brit, a French, a Spaniard or even a Dutch, in this game, you can also play as a ravaging pirate. This is the beauty of the overall game, especially from a storyline perspective. This game is open-ended enough where your every action and choice affects things in both the short as well as the long run. How you deal with the colonial powers, how you deal with the pirates and even how you deal with your own sailors can drastically alter your story's outcome.

Depending on the character that you select and depending on the missions that you accept, complete or fail to complete, not only your reputation as a sailor is being affected but acceptance between factions is also in great jeopardy. End up working for the Spaniards and the Brits may not take too kindly when your flag and sails appear on the horizon. Work for the pirates, well, you better be prepared for an engagement every time you cross a ship from one of the four superpowers. Each action, each choice, each outcome offers something new. And the story is not limited to naval battles (although sooner or later you will have to fight them); but, you can try to live your life as a merchant instead of an adventurer. If you're careful enough, your entire game can be revolving around commerce instead of warfare. Honestly, this of this game as Oblivion at sea. Your story, as unique as it might be, has one ting in common: the open seas. While the ancient Greeks turned to Poseidon for their prayers and help, you don't have that luxury. Your best bet is to make sure your navigator and cannon officers are worth all the gold that you've been coughing up.

Fortune and glory awaits you! Destiny awaits you, but destiny though is what you make it. Start your buccaneering career by choosing to go it alone and become the most feared pirate on the seven seas or prove your loyalty and take the coin of one of four different navies; French, English, Spanish or Dutch. Sail the high seas as a swashbuckling dread pirate or as a dashing naval captain. Explore strange new countries and undiscovered civilizations, raid and plunder merchant ships, fortified ports and cities. But beware, the dead do not sleep easy, and in the dark South American jungles myth and reality intertwine. Solve the ancient mysteries of a vanishing tribe, cross swords with the most notorious swashbucklers ever to sail the ocean blue and make sure that no foe ever sets foot on land again.

MINIMUN SYSTEM REQUIRMENTS
Processor: Intel Pentium IV 1.5 GHz or Athlon equivalent
Operating System: Windows XP/Vista
Memory: 256 MB RAM for XP, 1024 MB RAM for Vista
Hard Drive: 8.5 GB hard drive space
DVD: DVD drive
Graphics Card: Directx9 graphics card (GeForce 4 or equivalent with at least 64 MB RAM
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c or higher