Bareley Rentable
The fights aren't that great either. You mash on the A button, which allows your enemy to block after about 4 hits, then he turns his back and lets you kill him. Gee, i really remember that from the films, every enemy turning around and inviting jack to kill them. However, it is alot more effective to just pick up your enemy with Y and throw them around. After you throw them twice they die. This is alot faster than sword fighting, and can take out more enemies. It's really useful when you have to fight using two other pirates because the games AI is horrible and it's tough trying to keep 3 pirates alive when there is 20 enemies around you. Sometimes if you are near a ledge you can throw your enemies off the ledge.
There is a lack of invisible walls in places where they should be. It is really easy to accidentally slip and drown in knee deep water. Water kills you (a pirate, who can swim) by the way. The game is very repetitive. It's basically walk along some ledges, jump some gaps, pull some levers, and kill a few waves of enemies. This series of events have been in every pirates game I've ever played. Pirates of the caribbean ds, the legend of jack sparrow, at worlds end. They're all the same and that's a problem. There is literally no difference between the turkish prison level or tortuga, other than the way it looks. It get's boring doing the same thing over and over again, fighting the same enemies and not to mention the fact that all of the boss battles are exactly the same.
The boss battles are horrible. It's like playing the mini games in god of war, except instead of pressing a button quickly you have to move the joystick at the speed of sound either up, down, left or right (left or right varies depending on your enemy's position) to block the attacks. If you successfully do this, (and it's hard, sometimes you will think you did it right but your enemy will still attack) you have a chance to attack your enemy. Your enemy can block and attack you at random times. This is annoying because sometimes as soon as you get your chance to attack, they will immediatley block you and start attacking you.
The game puts you in situations and areas that weren't in the movie and twists to plotline alot. You will meet characters you haven't seen before and be in places your character shouldn't be in. There are both coin bags and special items in each level that do absoluteley nothing, and only jack sparrow can use a special move which wipes out everyone. Overall the game is horrible and if you're a really hardcore pirates fan...rent it.