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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow pc Game Reviews
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow
Critic Score
Metascore: 49 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
5.1 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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A sequel to the original Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow features a blend of fast-paced action and adventure that captures the entertaining characters, settings, and spirit of the first movie. Piracy, smuggling, buried treasure (not to mention kidnapping, sword fighting looting, pilfering, and other acts of villainy)...what's not to love about Captain Jack Sparrow? Jack Sparrow is the ultimate video game character - with his cocky swagger and his offbeat personality - and players are be able to experience his adventures first hand in this action game. Gamers slash and hack their way through a dozen locations, with fully interactive levels and varied gameplay. The action takes place in a variety of lush, immersive settings, including burning buildings, wrecked ships, and misty moonlit caves. The gameplay experience finds gamers fighting hordes of their enemies one minute, while in the next they're evading capture by the Royal Navy. Gamers learn new moves and combos as the game progresses, allowing even more spectacular, and deadly attacks during combat. [Bethesda Softworks]

PUBLISHER: Bethesda Softworks
DEVELOPER: 7 Studios
GENRE(S): Action, Adventure
PLAYERS: 2
ESRB RATING: T (Teen)
RELEASE DATE: June 27, 2006

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

63
PC Gamer
LOJS is such an unapologetic console port that the enclosed instructions on keyboard commands elicit more of a sense of amusement--how sweet of them to pretend this is useful!--than education. [Nov. 2006, p.116]
62
My Gamer
Learning the game's controls (once you get them configured that is) doesn't take long, but Legend of Jack Sparrow's use of save points really becomes frustrating very quickly.
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62
GameSpot
A pretty standard hack-and-slash action game that doesn't deliver on much of the stumblingly bombastic charm of its title character.
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60
Cheat Code Central
For a game that was inspired by a movie that was inspired by a theme park ride that was originally inspired by a book, The Legend of Jack Sparrow is less than inspired.
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52
PC Zone UK
The script and the acting is great, but the imagination going into the levels is hugely lacking. [Oct 2006, p.78]
50
IGN
The swordplay never truly excites, while the puzzles and enemies never rise above mediocrity. The game doesn't look very good for a PC title, but fans of the action genre will need to look elsewhere for carnage on the high seas.
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50
Games Radar
The Legend of Jack Sparrow is bogged down by a host of flaws, but in the end, it's still a passably entertaining sword-brawler.
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42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Don't even bother with the PC version. The control scheme is miserable, the key mappings are confusing, and nobody told the team who ported it from the PlayStation that PCs don't have a "left analog stick."
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40
Gamezilla!
Stay away from this game! It might have the voice of Johnny Depp, but it’s got the looks of something that crawled out of Godzilla’s throat, and the personality to match.
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35
PC Format
An Xbox port that looks a little green around the gills. [Sept 2006, p.99]
30
Computer Games Magazine
As tedious and redundant as "Dead Man's Chest", this cash-in distills the whole appeal of the original "Pirates of the Caribbean" into simple, repetitive, and boring button-mashing combat. [Oct. 2006, p.80]
24
PC Gamer UK
It shouldn't be imaginable for a game to be released in this state. It's an insult to you that they think they can get away with it. [Oct 2006, p.99]

What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Mike W. gave it a1:
What was wrong with the first Pirates Of The Caribbean? Why do we have to suffer these poor linear games inspired by movies when all we ever wanted were improvements to the original.

Stephen W. gave it a3:
I found the dialogue amusing, and the assorted bugs made the game a genuine challenge - having my sword vanish from my hand during a critical boss-fight (not to mention a virtual inability to climb stairs/ramps) were, I'm sorry to say, the highlights of the game's challenge. The end battles are anti-climactic at best, since the most difficult one (Blacksmoke James) appears about 3/4 of the way through (half of that difficulty caused by lag from the smoke particles), and everything else is just hack and slash. The final battle with Barbosa stops being fun about half way through the fight - it's not that challenging, just too darn long! This game has definitely lowered the chance of my purchasing another game from this company - too many bugs, poorly thought out, character rendering that looks like it's from the early 90's - what's not to love?

Shoes gave it a7:
Not the best, not the worst. I lost interest in the game quickly, and Elizabeth's voice is possitively FAKE! Good game to play when there's not much else to do, although it can be fun. Horrible interface.

Sion O. gave it a4:
Poor, could've been much better.

Aru B. gave it a0:
This piece of crap is as bad as it's predecessor. Aside from the horrific console -> PC port issues, there are bugs which I doubt they will be corrected considering that they even didn't release a patch for it's predecessor.

Tim A. gave it a10:
A Little Lost tin the Controll part, however still a fun game none the less.

Charlie W. gave it a0:
I seem to have misplaced my left stick as well. What the hell were they thinking? Do they just asume everybody has a gamepad? I want to play it, but I can't. What is with Jack's face? Why is the camera control so twitchy?

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