Cutthroats Terror on the High Seas PC

Veteran gamers with fond memories of Sid Meier's Pirates! probably feel inclined to jump at every chance to lead a band of pirates on a ruthless quest for wealth and glory. But their high hopes will probably be dashed when they get their hands on this latest strategy game from the developers of Gangsters. While Cutthroats covers all the bases when it comes to the world of 17th-century piracy, in the end it feels more like an accounting class than a life of swashbuckling and freebooting. You play as a pirate captain, starting with a single ship in the Caribbean between 1635 and 1700; the date you select determines how difficult the game will be. You get to read about the current events involving all the major seagoing powers of the time, but unfortunately this information is presented in the tiniest of print - a characteristic carried over from the manual, which is a Reader's Digest-sized book with a minuscule typeface. Straining to read the light-black type on a gray background is painful, an