Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow

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  • Summary: 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 mentionA 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]… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 32
  3. Negative: 11 out of 32
  1. PGNx Media
    75
    The actual gameplay doesn’t deviate much from your typical beat-em-up, which becomes monotonous and repetitive at the end of the game’s nine or so hours.
  2. Deeko
    60
    It is incredibly shallow and repetitive, offering up a fair amount of wasted potential and providing the gamer with little or nothing to really go on, but manages to still be fun.
  3. Electronic Gaming Monthly
    57
    It may be stupid fun - and it certainly gets monotonous - but at least it is fun. Apologetic kids should be thrilled. [Aug 2006, p.89]
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  4. PSM Magazine
    50
    It's still passably entertaining for Pirates fans, but Jack Sparrow's legend deserves a better game. [Sep 2006, p.86]
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  5. GameTrailers
    50
    All that saves Pirates on PS2 from completely walking the plank is Johnny Depp’s boisterous performance, the rare drop in co-op gameplay, and the fact that it’s always fun to be a pirate for a while. But as far as everything else goes...you’ve been warned.
  6. GameShark
    42
    If you strip away the license and the voice acting what's left is a short, uninspired, linear action adventure game that has awkward execution.
  7. Eurogamer
    30
    Unfortunately, while the movie's version of piracy is a picturesque mixture of high-adventuring, quick-witted, swashbuckling derring-do, The Legend of Jack Sparrow is a weak mixture of low-brow, quick cash-in, button-bashing doggy-do.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. sparrowuckdude
    Oct 4, 2018
    10
    just awesome totally worth buying and the graphics are also pretty good great
  2. ShahS.
    Sep 12, 2006
    10
    It Rocks!
  4. Alisha
    Aug 3, 2007
    10
    Great graphics, fun gameplay, and AMAZING story! Very enjoyable. Worth buying.
  5. AdamB.
    Dec 1, 2006
    9
    Hate the hugely spaced out checkpoints that cna prove fatal, but fun combat, good co-op and worth the £17 I paid for it.
  6. JadedS.
    Dec 27, 2006
    9
    For the price of the game (I paid $20), it was pretty good. The combat can be a little tricky in co-op mode only because the combat camera For the price of the game (I paid $20), it was pretty good. The combat can be a little tricky in co-op mode only because the combat camera angles could be better in co-op mode. Other then that the story and the fun make it worth it.… Expand
  7. Idea
    May 18, 2007
    2
    Bad graphics, dull gameplay, and boring story

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#89 Most Discussed PS2 Game of 2006