Game Info
Game Name: Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
Developer(s): Traveler’s Tales
Publisher(s): Disney Interactive Studios
Platform(s): PS3/Xbox 360/Wii/PC/PSP/NDS
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Release Date(s): May 10, 2011
ESRB Rating: E10+
Everyone’s after my lucky charms!
Meet Jack Sparrow, he’s a scoundrel and a pirate…but don’t blame him, he’s just built that way. As Jack and his friends make their way through a Lego filled world of palm trees, parrots, ghost pirates, mermaids, and sea serpents, Jack will get his gold studs and the best ship he can build.
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game continues the trend of Lego of adopting people film series and putting their Lego spin on it. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game followed Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars and like most Lego games received relatively positive reviews. It was released for all the major systems in some form or another.
Rolling in the jungle
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game adapts Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. It follows the same format of the previous Lego games with a “Hub” world in which your Lego characters can access the individual films which each have five chapters.
Lego games start out as fun but often become tedious as you play them. This is true of Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game. The game is really all ages with no real opportunities of dying. The all ages factor however is challenged when you reach some really frustrating boards that don’t give you much direction as to what your objectives are. Like all Lego games, once you manage to unlock all of the fun stuff, you are ready to shelve the game forever.
Watch your footing!
I actually liked Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game a little more than some of the other titles (and definitely better than the worst Lego title in Lego Indiana Jones. The cinematics are quite entertaining and the Lego humor is always there. A word to the wise, however, if you haven’t seen all the films, it does make the game more difficult.
If you are a fan of the Lego games, you’ll like Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game. If you don’t like Lego games, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game is more of the same. It will be interesting what the game will do if plans continue for a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film…maybe the game will have an add-on since there isn’t any other material to draw from like Star Wars. Lego followed up Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game with Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7.
Related Links:
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
