Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas

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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Eidos
EAN: 0788687104111
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Eidos Interactive
Dimension: 0.3 x 10 x 0.25 inches
Manufacturer: Eidos Interactive
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Release Date: August 30, 1999
Studio: Eidos Interactive

Veteran gamers with fond memories of Sid Meier's Pirates! probably feel inclined to jump at every chance to lead a band of pirates on a ruthless quest for wealth and glory. But their high hopes will probably be dashed when they get their hands on this latest strategy game from the developers of Gangsters. While Cutthroats covers all the bases when it comes to the world of 17th-century piracy, in the end it feels more like an accounting class than a life of swashbuckling and freebooting.

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Ratings & Comments(Average:)

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- Cutthroats: Classic Fun on the High Seas
This game, despite its age, remains one of the funnest games I have ever played. What it lacks in current graphical accomplishment, it more than makes up for with shear good fun. The combat is simple, the idea is simple, not to mention how much fun it is to raid and pillage. I definately say, if you are in to classic games and or pirates, this one is for you.

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- Terror as close as it gets
Terror on the high seas is as close as i think you will ever get to the reality of a pirate and life on the high seas. The ability to determine your own path and become as famous or the oppsite end of the scale "infamous" is incredible, and most people will find the challenge quite difficult at first to gain fame. the challenge to pillage ships and towns, select the right men and lead the path is exciting. Everytime you play it it has different challenges. Whether that be you be your own man and reak havoc or you help a governor deliver somethng special, the end outcome is the same. Make the money, reward your men and become the most famous or "infamous" pirate known to man. For the fact that few gaming producers have tried to make a compelation based on piracy and the hardships of life on the seas and even fewer have succeeded i am going to award this masterpiece a 5 star rating. a Galleon of an effort for the crew on this producers ship.

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- For hardcore pirate fans only.
While I found Cutthroats to be one of those games you can lose yourself in and spend all day enthralled with, you have to be a pretty hardcore fan of all things pirate to do it. This game is chock full of loopholes and missing bits of continuity that make your expected victories a little confusing. Plus, I've run this game on a couple of different computers and found that the programming tends to get bogged down the longer you play as one character. In other words, just when you finally get your pirate the way you want him the whole thing kind of crashes. So if you like roleplaying as a pirate this game is for you, but if you like high quality flawless playing you should look somewhere else.

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- Lotsa fun but lacks speed
I have been able to play this game over and over tirelessly, it seems to pose new challenges everytime but if faults in speed, for example, when you land troops at the beach, they move toooooooo slllllllllooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww. There's no thing to change the speed and it gets particulary infuriating in big towns like Tortuga, you have to personally guide their each and every movements, their each and every targets to kill, and their each and every step to avoid cannons and grenadiers. Also, its literally HELL, to invade towns with cannons close to your ships because they can ripp your ships apart in seconds on the coast.

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- A love/hate relationship
I love this game. It is exactly what I have been looking for for years! You select your ship name, build your crew and can even build an empire of sorts in the Carribean. The battles get a bit difficult to handle when you have multiple ships going against multiple foes.

Every action produces a reaction. If you maraude and pillage the Spanish settlements and ships, they will abuse you and refuse to trade with you. (at which point if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, your crew will start starving to death and you will be voted out.) They will send Pirate hunter out for you, they will go out of their way to engage you in combat. On the other hand, the English might just give you a title and a salary and keep you from being hung if you continue to harass their enemies for them.

I hate this game, it is buggy. When I first began playing it out of the box, it ran smoothly - but there were some true logic bugs in the coding. We are now up to patch 7. The logic bugs seem to have been fixed, but system and environment issues are another matter. It wreaks havoc on your hard drive and fragments everything like crazy. There are lots of tweaks you can do, but it annoys me to set up a new configuration just to play a game. Reaction time in the game is sometimes slow in response to an event due to all of the processing going on. The movies and sound sometimes cause system crashes and saved games corrupt. I really dislike paying to be an alpha tester.

My recommendation is wait until the game is released in a final version with all tweaks and bugs ironed out. Eidos/Hothouse are very good at addressing issues (or we wouldn't be up to patch 7) but the game is just not very stable in most environments.

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