Release Date: Fall 2008

Genre: Action Strategy Party Game

Platform: Xbox LIVE® Arcade, PlayStation®Network, and PC

Rating: TBA

Developer: Certain Affinity™

Publisher: Capcom®

Price: $9.99 PSN, 800 points XBLA, $14.99 PC

Game Description: Set in the swashbuckling era, Age of Booty is a casual real-time multiplayer strategy game that puts players at the helm of their own pirate ship with the goal of sending your enemies to the briny deep, and looting and capturing towns for your pirate faction. In Age of Booty, players team up with other online players or AI-controlled pirate ships to raid, pillage, sink, and destroy their way to dominance on the high seas. Spoils of war and booty are used to upgrade and customize pirate ships to make them even more deadly as players take on 25 unique challenges and seven of the most devious Pirate Alliances on the high seas. Gain notoriety and fame by climbing the online leader boards. Create and share custom maps using the intuitive map creation system

Features:

• Single player and multiplayer real-time action strategy from Certain Affinity, lead by Max Hoberman, designer of Halo 2 and 3’s multiplayer game.
• Party-based match-making system lets you keep teams and move from game to game, just like Halo
• Raid villages, sink merchants, seize towns, steal gold, upgrade your pirate ship and use your guns and your wits to send your foes to the briny deep
• Master twenty-five unique multiplayer maps or create your own and share them with your friends
• Up to four players on one console, up to eight players over LAN or the Internet in any combination of split screen or single box, just like Halo.
• Tons of customizable options that allow you to tune the game to meet your taste
• Map editing and sharing will keep the community busy for years
• Planned releases of new official maps every few weeks for several months post-release.

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Wow, where exactly did you pull those figures from!? Piracy is an issue but all too often it's a lame *** excuse by lazy game developers who's games don't sell because they are simply sloppy low quality console ports. PC gamers demand higher quality than that of consoles which are equivelant to last gen mid range PC's. If they put the time in and release a quality game then it will sell. Piracy is also a growing issue with consoles because the price for a game is twice the amount it is for PC didn't you know? and maybe that's where the term "Console Whores" has come from game developers sticking to consoles for the $$$.
Less quality = More straight forward development = More $$$  Sorted!

Thats not to mention the pay outs from the console companies to make the games for their platform in the first place!

I just feel PC gamers are being left out and the piracy issue is used too often as an excuse not to develope games for.
We also don't come on here raging and screaming insulting comments unlike your PS3 gamers who, when they don't get ONE release (LPC), threaten to boycott ever buying a Capcom game again!

Maybe in the past fighting games like SF may not have been such a success on PC but I think times have changed and Capcom could change that with the greatest fighting game ever being released for PC. and as with 1942 and Commando 3 this style of game must be a pretty straightfoward port from the 360?

I am looking forward to Bionic Commando Rearmed VERY much though and am thankful to atleast be getting that!

And as for pay outs: Microsoft + R* = $50 million for exclusive content?

sweetasman01 wrote:

Also you cant run pirated games on the PS3 (yet!) and if you try to go online with a mod chip on your 360 you get banned from live which mean you lose the only good part of the 360.

The key word here is YET for PS3 and if you have heard of the infectus team then you'll also know that they have just about got it sorted. they also have a modchip for the 360 that you can go online with. Getting banned was an issue with older chips.

Needs Ruby Heart, Zack and Wiki and the Pirate Ship Higemaru! :D

Anyway, looks fun! ;)