Jack Sparrow: Combat War

Players assume the role of everyone's favorite antihero, Captain Jack, as he slashes his way out of prison and onto his beloved ship.

Players will have to sail the Black Pearl from island to island following the story from the movie, from Jack's perspective.

Most of the story is told through cutscenes, each character involved having a still from the movie to represent them.

The images look pretty decent on the screen, although having one or two expressions

(occasionally one that doesn't match the tone of the conversation) is a bit weird.

The dialogue is similar, but not the same as the lines in the movie.

This is understandable, since Jack Sparrow: Combat War is only loosely following the plot, but some of the lines are really bad.

It often sounds like a bad fanfiction written by a teenage girl. Jack and Will Turner seem out of character and stiff,

which is a step up for Orlando Bloom (zing!).

Dead men tell no tales. Every good pirate lives (and probably dies) by this motto.

Jack Sparrow is no exception, and so much of the game revolves around a singular goal: killing everything on the screen.

And by everything, we don't mean the same three pirate sprites over and over again.

Oh no, the good Captain will face down bloodthirsty pirates, cannibalistic island natives,

the British navy, the undead, and even some fiddler crabs. The large assortment of villains to slash down is a nice feature,

since we're often bored of the same bad guy, over and over, maybe occasionally painted a different color.

Actually fighting the plethora of land lubbers that cross your path is clumsy and sometimes frustrating.

Players will find themselves button mashing as they try to work through levels that are far fetched for a game based on a live action movie.

The obligatory floating platforms are all over the place, and navigating between them gets tricky.

After the 20th time getting knocked off a platform because we bumped into an enemy and were automatically knocked back a good five feet,

we had gotten bored. Luckily, Jack can get upgrades to both his weapon and clothes, as well as learn new combos.

This does make the combat less tedious, but never truly carries it to greatness.

Let's go to the game Jack Sparrow: Combat War.....