Sometimes you almost want to hoist a parrot to your shoulders, don an eye patch and use sentences that contain a lot of “aaarrgh’s” in them.

Sometimes …

And then sometimes all you want to do is hoist the sails, feel the tide beneath the hull and smell the burnt cannon powder in the ocean air. Ah, the life of a buccaneer!

Powered by the Storm Engine, Akella and Playlogic are behind the pending PC release of Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales. This game, played out from the third-person perspective, is very much an individual tale of high seas adventure, swashbuckling and general derry-do.