Hawk manages to slip away and warn the English governor on Redmond Island, Robert Christopher Silehard, that Oxbay was attacked. As he leaves Oxbay, a French armada attacks the colony and captures it. His first mate Malcolm Hatcher is retiring, and so Hawk must hire a new first mate and crew. The PC version of this game is one of the first video games with multi-threaded code that is optimized for the Intel's Hyper-Threading technology.Īctress Keira Knightley, who played Elizabeth Swann in the film series, voiced the narrator (a single cutscene at the beginning) in the game.Īfter a fierce storm, Captain Nathaniel Hawk arrives on the island of Oxbay. Apart from the pirate theme, the setting and the presence of the Black Pearl, the game otherwise has few connections to the Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl film, which was released around the same time as the game. The game was originally developed under the name Sea Dogs II, and was to be the sequel to Sea Dogs, which was released in the year 2000.

The game features gameplay that takes place both on land and at sea, and allows the player to upgrade their character by earning skill points and gain new abilities. The player can buy new ships, recruit a crew and hire officers who will follow Hawk on his quest and help him in battle. Pirates of the Caribbean is an action role-playing game in which the player, as Captain Nathaniel Hawk, goes on a series of quests for any one of the countries that control the islands of the Caribbean in the 17th Century.

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