Yar, I Like Large Booty And I'm Compulsorily Truthful...

You other mateys can't deny.

I'll be good now.

I've been watching some gameplay of the Pirates game Disney came out with a few months back. Why not be curious? The only thing better than playing a game about pirates might one on ninjas or cowboys. I could go for that cowboy one actually. You don't see that genre very often in the MMO scene.

Enough rambling, back to the pirate game.

Pirates is another free to play MMO with an optional subscription that would give you cooler things to do. You're obviously a pirate, but you also get your own boat and have ocean battles as well as typical mano e mano swordplay you would expect from a pirate themed game. Overall it's pretty user friendly for a free game. I'm pretty sure a giant sunbeam shining down on where you need to go to next counts as idiotproof directions. Then again someone's bound to prove me wrong.

Personally I'm rather amused by some of the content in the game. For starters, you can play poker for money. I'm all for kids learning the valuable lesson on good ways to lose money but I'm rather surprised at this addition from something with the family friendly Disney tag on it. Maybe we're seeing a changing of the times here.

The other amusing kick I see in this game is the difference in fighting a zombie pirate and a live one. In both scenarios you can fight with swordplay to win. What is interesting is the fact that it is only zombies you can fight with a pistol. You are unable to fight a fellow living pirate due to the "Pirate's Code". I'm guessing this was to discourage kids from using guns in real life.

The funny part about this is that somehow shooting a small metal ball at a zombie with no nervous system or overall weak points (aside from maybe the joints) that would grant you victory. If anything shooting a live guy would be far more realistic. While on the subject of realism we'll keep in mind that we're talking colonial time firearms. That's a one shot gun that will need a complicated reload for another round. I somehow doubt some kid would want to simulate a realistic pirate's gun when the reload time is worse that a typical Nerf toy.

At least they can still gamble their way to riches in attempts to find a sword on Ebay from the colonial times. Maybe Civil War era if they're not that choosy. While they're waiting for the auction to close they can play pretend with the kitchen's silverware. So long as they aren't guns. Nope, guns bad, sharp blades and Vegas good. I love Disney.