![]() ![]() You'll encounter your fair share of puzzles that put the focus on box-pushing and switch-flipping. There's lots of leaping around jungles, caverns, and ancient tombs. The action in Pirates: Legend of the Black Buccaneer is a mish-mash of other recent, memorable action adventure games like Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia, just not anywhere near as good as in any of them. Once the premise is set, the game doesn't spend much time elaborating any further. This creature is known as the Black Buccaneer, and with the ability to transform into this powerful, top hat-wearing behemoth at will, Blade works his way across the island, fighting monkeys, plundering treasure, and collecting ship parts in order to get off this rotten island. Almost immediately upon his arrival, Blade discovers a fancy amulet that magically turns this skinny European into some kind of hulking undead hoodoo spirit-version of the old WWF wrestler Papa Shango. Through some needlessly longwinded opening narration, you're told the tale of a slave-turned-demon-goddess who lures greedy sailors to her island lair with the promise of cursed treasure, which is how the game's protagonist, Francis Blade, finds himself shipwrecked at the start of the game, on an island populated by antagonistic monkeys, pirates, and other dastardly enemies. ![]() Legend of the Black Buccaneer is the Bolex watch of pirate games. Wells' War of the Worlds? Well, just in time to capitalize on the piratical fervor over Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, budget publisher Valcon Games arrives with Pirates: Legend of the Black Buccaneer, rewarding those looking for another fun-filled summer romp with an action adventure game that teems with awkward platforming mechanics, one-note combat, confusing level designs, and simplistic puzzles. Thomas Howell direct-to-video shelf-filler H.G. ![]() You know how when The Da Vinci Code hit theaters, there was suddenly an abundance of books like Cracking Da Vinci's Code? Or how just as the 2005 Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise summer blockbuster War of the Worlds was hitting theaters, we were also treated to the David Michael Latt/C. ![]()
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