See Jack Sparrow In Action In A New Sea Of Thieves Gameplay Video

While you'll only visit these locations during one Tall Tale or another, they're not without their secrets. Rare promises rewards for uncovering everything that's hidden away, including the top reward of unlocking the "Yo Ho!" song for players to perform in-game. If you’re curious about the other games showed off during Xbox Games showcase extended,Twinfinitehas got plenty of ongoing E3 coverage. Be sure to check back to the site for consistent updates for everything you could ever want or need about all of the events that are occurring throughout this weekend. Alongside this story, there will also be plenty Pirates of the Caribbean cosmetics, allowing you to cosplay as Jack and even dress up your ship to look like the Black Pearl.

But hearing from Sea of Thieves creative director Mike Chapman, it's not just the movies that form the basis for this expansion; it's also the original Disney theme park ride on which the film series is based. Even the title is a reference, nodding to a song heard during the ride. As you can see from the trailer, the update brings new islands and outposts to explore, while the overall polish of the game is shinier than a freshly scrubbed deck. Made by legendary developer Rare, it’s no surprise to see such rapid progress.

However, I can't guarantee this type of game will be for you, since the only form of reward you'll get are cosmetics and the cartoony pirate experience. The game is def more fun to play with friends but there's loads of discord servers and Xbox LFG posts to find a crew if you don't. It's personally one of my favorite games I've ever played but that's only because I'm fine with having fun, possibly sinking, and not getting anything big from it at the end of the session. I'd say get it on Game Pass first to see if you like it ($1 for 3 months if you're new) or wait til the game drops to $20 if you plan to buy it anyways. Rare envisioned Sea of Thieves to be a "game as a service" and expected it to continue receiving updates for 10 years.

If that’s not a small mercy, I don’t know what is. It is a sandbox game, there is no progression, and it felt to me like a bunch of repetitive gimmicks. I had mediocre fun for 3 hours with friends and I felt that I experienced everything the game has to offer - anything more would be the same thing with a different flavour.

"Each time you're introduced to completely new locations within those regions." This can include familiar sites like Dead Man's Grotto or new ones like Sailor's Grave, a "shipwreck town" that's built for players to explore. In A Pirate's Life, the Sea also serves as a conduit between the Sea of Thieves world with Jack's Caribbean, connected by tunnels that are reminiscent of the Disney ride. There's also the Sunken Kingdom, an ocean Veritasdh floor location that includes, among other things, the wreckage of the Black Pearl. Mixed into all of that are the trappings of a pirate's life. A tankard for grog-drinking and a musical instrument for plinking out oceangoing tunes are permanent fixtures in your inventory. Accessorizing your look with pets, eye patches, tricorner hats, and other gear is the reward for amassing a pile of earned or stolen booty.

GenreAction-adventureModeMultiplayerSea of Thieves is a first-person action-adventure game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios. In the game, players cooperate with others to explore an open world via a pirate ship. The game is described as a "shared world adventure game", which means groups of players will encounter each other regularly during their adventures, sometimes forming alliances, sometimes going head-to-head.

The winners would receive one of four golden bananas (each valued at £20,000) as rewards. Rare also hosted a competition which tasked fans to create achievements for the game. Several stress tests and betas were released ahead of the game's official launch on 17 March. At launch, many players reported that they could not log into the game. Duncan said that Rare underestimated the server capacity as the number of people logging in to play the game during the launch period was unexpectedly high. Various fixes have been released to improve the game's online infrastructure.

Neate added that the game provided "literally no reason or motivation to do anything other than cooperate". For instance, players can vote to lock a disruptive player into the brig. Sea of Thieves is a first-person perspective action-adventure. At the beginning of the game, the player selects their procedurally generated player avatar.