Blood & Gold: Caribbean!

The game has still some bugs and glitches and some things should be more user friendly, but in general, they pulled off a better product, I really appreciate when developers do not give up and work hard to keep the players happy. Snowbird, good job!

First, english isn't my main language, sorry for the mistakes Ok, clearly the game isn't perfect : I've seen weird bugs, sometimes quests or fights feel a bit clunky, some key features from M&B are missing (real interactions with Lords, marshal ect..), quests difficulty are unbalanced (c'mon saving the gunners/isolated battery is IMPOSSIBLE) But I am having a real blast with this game !! I've played 20 hours over the course of the last 5 days The music is great, the ambiance perfect, gun fights, raids on city & uprising in plantation when you are kept as a prisonner are epic and so fun to play

So Mount and Blade definitely wasn't made to handle the age of firearms too well. + The ship to ship combat turned out to be better than I expected and is the only part of combat where You can actually use some tactics to influence the battle. - All the other combat is a mess, in medieval modifications of Mount and Blade like Bryttenwalda, You can use formations, ranged units and cavalry with at least some sense of tactical combat reminding me of the Total War series. But here combat is a complete mess, on land it turns into a blob1 vs blob2 and when boarding enemy ships its the most chaotic "everybody everywhere" where everyone is running around like headless chickens. And the side with more chickens often wins, but there really isn't much that you as a captain can do there. Summary: Get a medieval or ancient themed Mount and Blade modification and enjoy shield walls, flanking and such things.

Blood and Gold: Caribbean! is what you get when you push an engine unsuited for your needs to its limits (much like M&B:Viking Conquest), and it's magical. The game is really good if you're the type of person who doesn't mind a chuckle or two about graphics, is able to handle quite a few gamebreaking bugs and doesn't mind a few CTDs (highly recommend you DON'T run the game on "don't quit without saving"). You spawn as a horse whn you start the game, but then turn into a ship, the UI is fucking awful and convoluted, and I love every single part of it. So, why then do I look over all these flaws? Well, it's quite simple really. This is the Sid Meier's Pirates! I always wanted and never got. If you like Pirates, you'll feel right at home here. More advance economy mechanics than warband, do shady business for "Suspicious people", assassinate politicians, fight ghost and zombies (yes, really!), get good equipment, become a master corsair, conquer the seas:tm:. Steal enemies' ship and sell them, and get letters of marque. I can't praise enough how similar it is to Pirates!, and the combat is much better than Pirates (yet still fucking jank, but if you played Mount and Blade, again, you'll feel right at home). Highly recommended buy to fans of Warband and Pirates!, but on sale. I can't in good conscience recommend this game as a buy at full price, wait for a sale, since it's still a jankfest. Still, the game, where it lacks polish, reemplish in depth rarely found in other "modern" games.