The game looks pretty amazing with a world map followed by a more detailed location map that needs to be explored to be “unfogged” to reveal islands, mission icons, patrolling enemy ships, and lighthouses that serve as fast-travel points. Enemies can also launch explosive crates that must be quickly and individually tapped before they damage your ship. A horizontal volley of cannon balls will fire toward you and you have to swipe them out of the sky Fruit Ninja-style before they reach you. Instead of simply dodging incoming volleys of cannon fire from an aerial perspective you now get a deck view of the situation. In the newly updated version of Pirates there are some new components to the combat that help spice things up. You’ll need to meet all three of these for a full sync bonus. Each mission has three side-objectives like not taking damage or finishing within par time or maybe a restriction like not using a certain weapon or boosters on your sails. Upon contact you must defeat that ship within the remaining time limit. The cool assassination missions preface the ship battle by having you drag your course through hostile waters to reach a target ship. It wouldn’t be so bad if combat wasn’t a part of nearly ever activity – outside of checkpoint races. Every so often you could fire chains to break out of the dodge sequence and get in an extra round of attacks.
None of it was challenging not even when on defense when you simply had to dodge left or right to avoid the telegraphed incoming attack. Despite a nice resource acquisition and upgrade path that had you hiring crew members to add various perks to parts of your ship like hull, sails, or cannons, the game quickly got repetitive due to limitations within the game design.Ĭombat was mindless as you cycled back and forth between turn-based attack and defense using various icons with cool down timers like cannons and your swivel shot for more focused and damaging attacks. When I dabbled with Pirates before the update the game was pretty much a slog of traveling from waypoint to waypoint on the map to perform “ship assassination” missions, recover cargo, race through checkpoints, or spot a not-so-buried treasure chest using your spyglass. The January 9 th update has not only added new features, it has also changed (or at least added to) the very core of the gameplay mechanic. I was going to start this review off by apologizing for its tardiness – I got rather caught up in Black Flag and Liberation HD for the past month – but during that time Assassin’s Creed Pirates for iOS received a major update…so major in fact that in many ways it’s not even the same game I dabbled with briefly when it launched last December.
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