Yes, Pirates of the Caribbean is filled with much unnecessary beauty -- stuffed with it, one might say. Light symphonic music wishes us well as we drift with half-sails away from port, through rocks at dawn. The orange sun's reflection is shattered and spliced all over the jiggling purple waves. We rotate the camera up and around our pirate fleet. Lens flares flare. Non-hostile ships dot the distance. We use our spyglass to zoom in on a non-hostile ship -- our lens is a little dirty, a nice little graphical flourish -- and, in a fusion of graphics and gameplay, we're given the name of the ship, and its current state of repair. A better spyglass would let us see how many crew are on board, or what they're carrying in the cargo hold.