The Pirates of the Caribbean video game serves a swashbucklin' experience but with many faults.
User Rating: 8.1 | Disney Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End X360
The first real offering in the Pirates of the Caribbean world into a video game is great, but not so much. The game take place in the last 2 films, Dead Man's Chest and At World's End. The first thing you'll notice is the breathtaking visuals. The graphics are amazing and the environments look like the films. The cut scenes are very nice and the story telling waters down the films plot into a very short narrative. The gameplay is simple, too simple and the difficulty(unadjustable)is set so that everyone can play. You get to play as Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Capt. Barbossa, Rhagetti and Pintel. You'll fight an amazing assortant of beautifully designed enemies such as the king of the depths, Davy Jones. You swing your sword 3 times and the enemy is ready to die. Or sometimes you'll fight the 'mini' boss type and have to use one of your awesome finishing moves. There is also the dueling. Basically, you use the right thumbstick to move up or down and backwards to block an enemy attack and use the same movements to attack. The dueling is very, very boring and very bland. The Dead Man's Chest portion of the game is very short but you get to visit amazing places like Port Royale, Tortuga, the Flying Dutchman, fighting the Kraken and Isla Cruces. The At World's End portion is very good, but is also short. Levels like Davy Jones Locker can get very confusing and Shipwreck City is fun to explore. The finale between the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman in the malstrom is underwhelming but it suffices. The sound of the game is top notch and the music, though not directly from the movie, takes the movie score and simplifies it a bit but you feel like you're in the world of PotC. There are things like Jackinism Chests and Calypso Chests hidden through each level. Jackinism Chests can be opened when you've collect 3 shrunken heads and use your Jackinism where the chest is at. Things like concept art and even the game soundtrack can be unlocked. The Calypso Chests offer a piece to the Calypso puzzle which when completed, it tells of the love story between Calypso and Davy Jones. You also have multiplayer in which you and a friend can battle it out in the balnd dueling type of fight. As you progress in the game, you unlock more characters to battle with.The unlockables and (easy) Xbox 360 achievements alone are worth it to PotC fans to buy this game. Pirates fans will love just because it gives us a chance to be in the world of PotC. But it could've been so much more. 
