All in all, it feels good and looks fantastic (and I swear I almost could smell the sea too!). Zigzagging through the waves leaves a funny curlicue on the sea chart. They say the shortest distance between two spots is a straight line, but try it in a storm. It’s rigid and unwieldy, just like it should be. Most people will agree that Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag was best when on the seas, and Sea of Thieves easily beats the overall experience of steering the ship. Technically, the game is impressive even on a standard Xbox One.
The calm and clear sea is a pure paradise sight straight from a postcard, while the storming ocean is a frightening beast, crashing wildly around and beating mercilessly your ship. Oh, and the sea… it’s simply astonishing. Rendered in Rare's tradition of stylized forms and exaggerations, the breathtaking scenery bathed in a beautiful lighting and colors of dynamic weather and time of day. The first thing you’ll notice is the absolutely beautiful world. After collecting the inventory wheel full of bananas (to replenish health), planks (to fix the ship with) and cannon balls (to shoot with onboard cannons, duh!), and gathering available voyages from the quest givers, it’s time to set sail. Galleon, on the other hand, needs three or four people to man it. There’s also room for one online crew mate. Adjusting sail length and angle, lowering or raising the anchor, and yanking the wheel are only a shoulder-length away. The first is the only option for solo pirates, as it’s perfectly manageable from its small deck. In the end, my pirate girl wasn’t too shabby, but there’s not much to rejoice about as the game is presented strictly in the 1st-person with no option to switch into the 3rd-person view, apart from occasional emotes.īefore hitting the seas with freshly recruited buccaneer, there’s a matter of choosing between a sloop or a galleon. No matter how many times the selection is refreshed, it comes down to choosing the least ugly mug (unless you really want to look like a scruffy ruffian). Sea of Thieves presents only a motley crew of randomized presets of pirate men and women. I can spend hours tinkering with characters until I get the looks right. I obsess over how my characters look in games where I can create them, or at least customize them. The first letdown is the character creation, or rather, the lack of it. I was also prepared for disappointments along the way. As a long-time Rare fan, I was cautiously hopeful that Sea of Thieves would mark their return to form for good after wasting their talent for so many years developing petty Kinect games.
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