

The first thing you'll do is choose a name for yourself, as well as a specialty, such as sword fighting (which is useful in duels), navigation (which makes you sail a bit faster), or wit and charm (which help your dancing skills). Now, years later, it's up to you to save your family, vanquish the evildoers, and get rich along the way. The game's prologue explains how your wealthy merchant family was imprisoned and how you escaped as a young boy. Your character will age over time, so your ultimate goal is to amass as much fame and fortune as possible before you retire, at which point your pirate will go into the hall of fame and you can start all over again. You'll sail the Spanish main, trade broadsides with other ships, engage in dashing swordfights, search for buried treasure, sneak into hostile towns, and dance with many a governor's daughter along the way. More often than not, you'll dabble in all those fields at the same time. You can pursue the career of a privateer, a treasure hunter, an explorer, or a trader. The beauty of Sid Meier's Pirates! is that this open-ended strategy game lets you live the glorious life of a swashbuckler your own way. At least, that's your initial reason for going to sea. In Sid Meier's Pirates!, you play as a pirate out for revenge against the evil Spanish nobleman who wronged your family.

Now Playing: Sid Meier's Pirates! Video Review Both of these can be solved with a config file, but if the game never runs the first time, it won't create one.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Originally posted by screamingcrane:The solution is two-fold: Sid Meier's Pirates needs to be told to run the game in a window, and it needs to be told what resolution to use. The game will attempt to auto detect the settings all over again, flip out, and kill itself, requiring you to fix the config file all over again. It should start.ĭo not attempt to adjust the video settings from within the game. Go back to Steam and run the game as you would any other. Save the file as config.ini to the following file path: Computer/OS(C:)/Users/USERNAME/My Documents/My Games/ Sid Meier's Pirates! Copy the following text and paste it into the file: Both of these can be solved with a config file, but if the game never runs the first time, it won't create one. The solution is two-fold: Sid Meier's Pirates needs to be told to run the game in a window, and it needs to be told what resolution to use.
