Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates

Publisher: Ubisoft

Developer: Three Rings Design

Category: Classics/Puzzles

Release Dates

Online - 12/08/2003

N Amer - 05/03/2005

Official Game Website

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GameZone's Review

8.6

GZ Rating

Gameplay8.5
Graphics8.2
Sound5
DifficultyEasy
Concept9
Multiplayer8.6
Overall8.6

Reviewer: Rob Watkins

Review Date: 05/16/2005


Forget all stereotypes; these pirates are friendly and quite intelligent.

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News

Three Rings Announces 2 Millionth Registered Pirate for its Online World
Three Rings Design, Inc., a premier developer of multi-player online casual games, announced today that it has crossed over the 2 million registration mark for its popular online game "Puzzle Pirates"

Three Rings to Give Away 18th Century Authentic Gold Doubloon for In-Game Five Millionth Doubloon Purchase
The company expects to reach the five millionth sale mark later this week and will announce the winner shortly after

Skunk Studios ® Boards Ship as Key Distribution Partner for "Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates™"
Casual Games portal SkunkStudios.com to help distribute Three Rings' online multiplayer game.

Three Rings Releases Open Source Multi-player Game Toolkit
And Launches Game Gardens Website

Ubisoft Sets Sail for Retail Store Shelves with a New Puzzle Pirates™ Product
Lead the Life of a Pirate in the First Massively Multiplayer Online Game That Combines Popular Online Puzzle Games with an Immersive Pirate Community

All News for Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates

Description

In the game, players pillage the seven seas with their mates and enjoy countless rounds of eleven fine puzzles, from Swordfighting to Carpentry, Gunnery, a variety of trade puzzles, and even a friendly game of Spades. Puzzle Pirates is a social game in which players sail together in crews and form political alliances to rule the waves. Shop ownership, trade networks, full player-colonized islands and a dense web of Piratey intrigue fill out the higher level gameplay; for those who master the puzzling:

•Build a pirate empire: Players form their own crews to pillage the high seas, trade between islands and even develop their own thriving ports. •Participate in the player-run economy: Players buy and run shops, trade for goods and employ the puzzling skills of their friends. All finished items in the game are made in player shops. •Man the crow’s nest! Be on the look out for new updates to the game. •Make a piratey fashion statement: Fulfill your dreams of dashing pirate flair with a great selection of swashbuckling outfits. Pirates Arr Cool! A unique feature of the retail version of Puzzle Pirates is the single-player, offline mode which provides a friendly introduction to the world of Puzzle Pirates. Players can become master puzzlers before storming the decks of the online world.

Hardware Requirements

Supported OS: Windows® 98SE/2000/ME/XP (only) Processor: 300 MHz Pentium® III or AMD K6III™ (1 GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon™ recommended) RAM: 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended) Video Card: 4 MB SVGA graphics adaptor Sound Card: Sound Blaster®-compatible sound card CD-ROM: 4x CD-ROM drive or faster Hard Drive Space: 100 MB Internet Connection: 56 K modem or better (64 Kbps broadband recommended)



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Teen
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