So I love the Pirates of the Caribbean game, does anybody know how this game compares?

I thought that was an online game? Maybe I'm wrong.

I'll repost this in the official thread when it works, but I'm curious about this too.

Can anyone who has played this answer a couple questions?

1) Is there island / on foot exploration and treasure hunting? I've found one review on Amazon that says Yes but I can't find any other confirmation so I figured I'd check with someone who has played it. LOVED the sort of nebulous treasure hunting in the Pirates of the Caribbean Sea Dogs reskin and I'm hoping that it's present here.

2) Are officers a bit more interesting to collect? I quickly became bored of Caribbean Tales because it was super easy / trivial to simply get a Max Value Officer immediately. I had Skill 9 Cannon and Sailing (I think was the skill) officers right away - I feel like in POTC there was better "progression" where I'd find a guy that might add 4 to sailing and 2 to boarding or maybe I'd hunt down a special officer that would have amazing stats.

In Caribbean Tales I just popped into a port or three and all of a sudden my Ship Skills were maxed out and I didn't care about that aspect of the game anymore - was a bit of a let down.

Well, according to Wikipedia Sea Dogs 2 was turned into PotC with some minor alterations. Other than that it should have some similarities to the rest of the franchise. That said, I don't know how well any of them compare to each other quality-wise.

Nah, like mistermumbles said it was the second game in the Sea Dogs franchise that got shoehorned into the PotC franchise at the last minute. It was a really awesome game at that time (much better ship combat than AC4, for example).

No, that happened shortly after people started discovering release threads prematurely (specifically, the Star Wars ones).

First I forget I bought the first game and I now I forget what the second one is about.

All of a sudden euthanasia is sounding like a good idea. :P

Nice, I really liked the other two on GOG so this is more or less a given, there's just not enough games like these.

Time for some legal piracy ! ... so to speak.

There seems still to be a active modding community for Sea Dogs(Age of Pirates 2) - Cify of abandoned Ships.

Guess I will buy this one.

http://www.moddb.com/games/age-of-pirates-ii-city-of-abandoned-ships/mods

http://www.piratesahoy.net/forums/city-of-abandoned-ships-mods.66/

So after doing a little more research, it looks like CoAS is the last game of the franchise and supposedly the best. Can anyone with first-hand experience chime in on this?

Not really. This one is the last (at least with English language):
http://store.steampowered.com/app/223330/

As a quite experienced player of CoAS, I can say:

Yes, it is THE best game in the series, BETTER than latter "To Each His Own" and a couple more similar fan-made "sequels".

Yes, it has all one would want from a "pirate life simulation" game: sea battles, ship and crew management, trade and escort missions, land missions and fort sieges, intricate quests and treasure hunting, Aztec gods and undead sceletons, 5 factions to play for (England, France, Spain, Holland and... ta-dammmm - SUDDENLY pirates!), very cool skill system and tons of cool loot, including unique high-level items, and more, and more and more... And everything is in a sandbox FREE world, you can do whatever you want, even not bothering about quest lines.

System Requirements on GOG are WRONG: the minimum (and THE BEST) OS to play is WinXP, on Win7 and newer you'll have constant glitches, abrupt game close-downs and so on.

EDIT: And there's NO 3 'different classes' as GOG description says. Merchant, Corsair and Adventurer choice defines ONLY your starting ship, gold and gear. Quest lines are defined by your nation, more precisely, you may be whatever nation you chose (it defines your starting location and how other nations treat you), and you can earn the trust of another nation's general-governor and start the national quest line of his nation.

Information.The game is multilanguage in gog version (language.exe)

language game
English
french
german
italian
Spanish

No russian sorry.

Finally.

Nice release! Looks like Risen 2 ^_^