Sid Meier's Pirates: Hands-on  Shiver me timbers, landlubbers!
We lay our rum-soaked hands on the greatest pirate game
evaarrrgh! Shots & movies.  In the sleepy lull of summer, there
is nothing quite like an alluring adventure game to rattle yer
bones. Coming to Xbox July 11 for a mere $39.99 is Sid Meier's
Pirates!, the kind of title that absorbs you so completely,
you'll honestly lose a job, a girlfriend, or both in the
process. It's that good! I hadn't played the PC version, so when
I sat down to play the Xbox version Pirates three nights ago, I
played for eight straight hours, ending my session at 5 am. My
wife didn't let this go by without notice.  Based on the
original Sid Meier's Pirates, which old-school PC gamers swear
is one of the greatest games of all times, this PC port comes
over with little marketing fanfare but an enormously deep and
compelling game to make up for it. As a port, the Xbox version
doesn't look any worse for the wear, but the PC version's
graphics weren't its selling point anyway