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Tortuga: Two Treasures Review
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Posted by Donster on: 2007-03-28 14:38:00 535
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Yargh! It be pirate software, matey!
By Gord Goble, IGN
Abandoning creativity and originality faster than Blackbeard apparently abandoned moral decency, Tortuga: Two Treasures instead wallows unapologetically in virtually every hackneyed pirate-ism to ever walk a gangplank. All the swordplay, all the gravely voiced "Avasts," all the looting and the pillaging and the rum-soaked yet somehow romanticized no-goodniks, all the peg legs and the ghostly references and the voodoo and the cannon battles. Even the main character, one Thomas "Hawk" Blythe, wears and bears all the typical swashbuckling-rapscallion-with-an-underlying-heart-of-gold traits and garb that have adorned most every pirate hero throughout the ages. That the action-adventure game around these oh-so-stereotypical trappings is structured to leave very little room for actual adventure outside the hand-holding linear storyboard somehow doesn't seem surprising.
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