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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
- Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Windows, Mac, PSP
- Price: $29.99–$49.99
- Genre: Action/Adventure
Common Sense Media says
Explore all four movies' worlds, with unique LEGO humor.
Parents say
QUALITY
Kids say
QUALITY
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean is a cartoony adventure game based on all four of the Disney Pirates of the Caribbean movies, including the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. While the game features a good deal of fighting, puzzle-solving and exploration are more key to gameplay than violence. And all the characters are depicted as LEGO toys, so a character "dying" is only seen as the toy figure breaking into its component pieces. Still, kids will have many chances to see LEGO characters get their plastic parts lopped off by swords. There is also a bit of very cartoony sexuality in the form of characters ogling one another in an over-the-top Looney Tunes fashion.
What's it about?
LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN lets you play through the full stories of all four Disney Pirates movies, including the new On Stranger Tides. Starting from a port-of-call hub world (which itself contains hours worth of exploration and puzzle-solving), players can enter into scenes from the films. The storylines revolve around the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow and his ragtag crew of pirates. While generally in search of treasure, the pirates tend to get sidetracked helping out friends in need. During the course of the game, they will battle enemy pirates, nasty soldiers, skeletal ghost pirates, angry island natives, and sea monsters. All the characters and much of the scenery is depicted in the form of LEGO toys.
Is it any good?
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean boasts all the best features of previous LEGO games: a whimsically satirical sense of humor, simple controls, vast environments to explore with tons of secrets to discover, and a huge cast of playable characters to collect and use in free-play levels. While you get your fair share of combat here, the focus definitely feels like it has been put on exploration and puzzle-solving (which seems appropriate for pirates). Each level contains a number of buried treasures that Captain Jack will need to use his compass to track down; some of the hidden items are necessary in order to move the story forward, while others are just to add more treasure-hunting fun.
There are so many cool secrets to discover in the hub world alone that you can spend hours playing around there in between levels. The LEGO games' typical sense of humor really shines here as well, with loads of visual gags that can make you laugh out loud. And it feels like the developers have made it a bit easier to earn new characters here, having many more low-cost characters available (you buy characters with the LEGO coins you find during play). If there's any real flaw here, it's the inability to save mid-level, which is a perennial problem with the LEGO games.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about the violence in the game. Is all the fighting and combat less impactful because the characters are depicted as toys? Do you think the level of violence in this game is too much? Or is it appropriate for the subject matter?
Parents can also talk to their kids about cross-promotional marketing. How does this game help to advertise products for both LEGO and Disney?
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Perfect for tweens
I played lego year harry potter and this one looks pretty cool.
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news for the parents
I have this game myself and I think it is for ages 7 and above because there is a little bit of violence but it does not include any blood or sexual scenes which is a good thing for younger kids
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grounups need to know
it is good for ages 18 and above because very violent and scary for younger children but does not include sexual scenes also no bad speech
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A Jolly Roger Good Time!
The game play is challenging enough to keep the player's interest, but not so much that it becomes frustrating or confusing. The signature Lego humor is fun, but the cut-scenes make very little sense. My kids (10 & 6) hadn't seen the movies, but greatly enjoyed playing the game, even without understanding the storyline.
Anyone paying attention to the reviews AND the age recommendations will notice that I flagged this game as "on" for ages 8 & up, yet mentioned that one of my kids playing this is 6. I believe my 6 yo would've had a difficult time playing the game on her own, without the guidance of her big brother.
The only complaint I have is the game occasionally freezes up, forcing me to shut down the PS3 console. I haven't run into this issue with any of the other Lego titles we've played, but we don't have the most recent titles other than P.O.T.C.
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Kid, 12 years old
October 7, 2011
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Was very quickly made and really shows.
This is noticibly one of the weakest lego games. (the worst being Indiana Jones 2)
Good
It has the normal Lego feel to the Disney Movies and they did a fine job of making some of the boring movie parts fun ( riding goats through Davy Jones Locker) And the graphics look like somebody sent their legos to a dry cleaner and it does make the movies more humorus than they normally are And in the UK the game came out before the movie which was great for them.
Bad
I said the game wasn't the best lego game. The quests are alot more complex than the others there are too many people on the screen at most points and sometimes they make you switch between them to solve puzzels why are they on the screen? Just let us switch between them insted of clamming in a tight spot. The gameplay is also very tedious and you will get bored unlike in the first 3 Also the 2p split screen can get very annoying when it is changing from one screen to two epecily when one is high and one is low which makes one drop out and come back in which also makes this game annoying it's still worth the money if you can find it cheaper than 39.99 but if you see it for $49 just don't get it
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Kid, 12 years old
November 26, 2011
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Impressive, but at the end of the day, just another game.
Lots of swprdplay and scary sequences. Girls dress up as boys. Lots of kisses between characters. Lego is mixed in with the succesful Pirates of the Carribean saga. Characters drink and are drunk at many times along the storyline. The characters can be shown as bad role models, but no matter how many times they betray each other, they still come through to each other at the end of the day.
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Words From the babysitter
I babysit and I let the kids play it and they enjoy they don't get the sexual references they just think its just silly and It's what Lego does they to that in all their games. But the one thing that kind of led me to sell the game is the drinks.. .I understand its pirate time period but children shouldn't be learning about that until they are older.
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| Platforms: | Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Windows, Mac, PSP |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
| Developer: | Disney Interactive |
| Release date: | May 10, 2011 |
| Price: | $29.99–$49.99 |
| ESRB rating: | E10+ for Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief. [Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, PSP,and PS Vita versions are E10+ for Cartoon Violence] |
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