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Pirates of the Burning Sea (New adventure game)
by Love_for_forever Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:54 pm
The age of sail is a popular story setting, thanks to its romantic
aspects. It's an era when ships moved about by the power of the wind,
rather than loud, ugly machinery, and heroes swashbuckled their way
around using skill and charm. Or, at least, that's how popular culture
likes to remember it. Still, there's something to be said for a
pirate-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game when so
many of its competitors veer toward the familiar fantasy route. That
brings us to Pirates of the Burning Sea, a game that's been in
development for a number of years now. But with the launch finally in
sight next month, preparations are coming to a frenzied head, and
developer Flying Lab Software has been busy conducting beta tests. We
dived into the test recently ourselves, with some of the developers
tagging along to show off some of the game's cool features, like naval
combat. Burning Sea is a bit like a massively multiplayer online
role-player version of single-player games like Sid Meier's Pirates!
and Port Royale. Many of the concepts in Burning Sea make it similar to
those games, only expanded to allow for hundreds or even thousands of
players to inhabit the same virtual world at the same time. You create
a character and explore port towns and their various structures, like
taverns, for missions. Then, you can embark on the open sea in a ship
that you can customize with various upgrades. As you ply the waters of
the Caribbean, you can sail from town to town or engage in naval
battles, and you can sword-fight on land or on the decks of a ship.
For the purposes of our demonstration, we created midlevel pirate
characters. That may seem a bit obvious, but there are actually a
number of different classes that you can choose from. You can also be a
naval officer for one of the great powers of the time, like Britain,
France, or Spain; a freetrader; or a privateer, which is basically an
officially sanctioned pirate. Those three classes are aligned to one of
the three great powers, but pirates fly under their own flag.
Character creation and customization is what you'd expect with an
RPG. You select a gender and name and then proceed to customize your
avatar's appearance, selecting from different hats (pirates love snazzy
headgear), hairstyles, jewelry, faces, eye patches, facial hair (for
guys), coats, shirts, vests, necks, gloves, boots, pants, and so on.
Thankfully, there's also a randomize button if you're overwhelmed by
all these choices. If you don't like the color scheme, you can dye most
objects with a primary and secondary color. Once you've got the look
nailed down, you can begin the game.
The Flying Labs developers gave us a bit of a head start, so we
didn't get a glimpse of the early game. Instead, we started with
characters at about level 16, so that meant that we could distribute a
fair number of skill points around. Burning Sea is very much an RPG in
that you accumulate points that you can use to purchase a wide variety
of skills. These can range from skills that can help you in sea battles
(such as flogging skills, which let you "encourage" your crew to do
things such as reloading the guns faster), swordsmanship skills, dirty
fighting skills, and much more. The aforementioned are just a handful
of the skill branches in the game.
Download:
aspects. It's an era when ships moved about by the power of the wind,
rather than loud, ugly machinery, and heroes swashbuckled their way
around using skill and charm. Or, at least, that's how popular culture
likes to remember it. Still, there's something to be said for a
pirate-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game when so
many of its competitors veer toward the familiar fantasy route. That
brings us to Pirates of the Burning Sea, a game that's been in
development for a number of years now. But with the launch finally in
sight next month, preparations are coming to a frenzied head, and
developer Flying Lab Software has been busy conducting beta tests. We
dived into the test recently ourselves, with some of the developers
tagging along to show off some of the game's cool features, like naval
combat. Burning Sea is a bit like a massively multiplayer online
role-player version of single-player games like Sid Meier's Pirates!
and Port Royale. Many of the concepts in Burning Sea make it similar to
those games, only expanded to allow for hundreds or even thousands of
players to inhabit the same virtual world at the same time. You create
a character and explore port towns and their various structures, like
taverns, for missions. Then, you can embark on the open sea in a ship
that you can customize with various upgrades. As you ply the waters of
the Caribbean, you can sail from town to town or engage in naval
battles, and you can sword-fight on land or on the decks of a ship.
For the purposes of our demonstration, we created midlevel pirate
characters. That may seem a bit obvious, but there are actually a
number of different classes that you can choose from. You can also be a
naval officer for one of the great powers of the time, like Britain,
France, or Spain; a freetrader; or a privateer, which is basically an
officially sanctioned pirate. Those three classes are aligned to one of
the three great powers, but pirates fly under their own flag.
Character creation and customization is what you'd expect with an
RPG. You select a gender and name and then proceed to customize your
avatar's appearance, selecting from different hats (pirates love snazzy
headgear), hairstyles, jewelry, faces, eye patches, facial hair (for
guys), coats, shirts, vests, necks, gloves, boots, pants, and so on.
Thankfully, there's also a randomize button if you're overwhelmed by
all these choices. If you don't like the color scheme, you can dye most
objects with a primary and secondary color. Once you've got the look
nailed down, you can begin the game.
The Flying Labs developers gave us a bit of a head start, so we
didn't get a glimpse of the early game. Instead, we started with
characters at about level 16, so that meant that we could distribute a
fair number of skill points around. Burning Sea is very much an RPG in
that you accumulate points that you can use to purchase a wide variety
of skills. These can range from skills that can help you in sea battles
(such as flogging skills, which let you "encourage" your crew to do
things such as reloading the guns faster), swordsmanship skills, dirty
fighting skills, and much more. The aforementioned are just a handful
of the skill branches in the game.
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