Sea Of Thieves Jack Sparrow Gameplay Trailer Reveals New Enemies, Cosmetics

If you’ve ever had the urge to plunder the seas and murder several wives, Black Beard style, but don’t want to spend the rest of your life in jail, the MMORPG Sea of Thieves might be just the boat to board. Unfortunately it’s still in closed Alpha, but a newly released video of the Alpha version 0.1.1 shows how this pirate-simulator is looking to become ship-shape rather quickly. After the two hours when the player realizes that he or she saw and did pretty much everything that this $60 game has to offer, the fun gets replaced first with disbelief and then with anger. The anger especially amplifies when one realizes that they were mislead by the developers into believing that the beta gameplay that was all over YouTube before the release was showing just 20% of the game.

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.

Gold is good but the real reward for playing is the big pirate-themed sandbox that Sea of Thieves plunges you into. It's fantasy wish fulfillment for people who want to live a pirate's life. Rare could've done much worse for a first-ever crossover than one of Disney's biggest live-action movie franchises.

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.

Titan Books also worked with Rare to publish an art book named Tales from the Sea of Thieves. A free expansion titled A Pirate’s Life, which is based on Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, was released on June 22, 2021. The expansion was in development for about two years. Play ‘Tall Tales’ to experience Sea of Thieves’ unique take on a story-driven campaign. With eleven tales to play through across two epic storylines, these immersive and cinematic quests provide around 30 hours of the ultimate pirate fantasy.

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.

For Chapman, though, who really has lived his own, special kind of pirate's life since this wild game first launched in 2018, it's an important step forward. A Pirate's Life is the biggest addition to date for Sea of Thieves, in addition to being the game's very first crossover. The fact that it's also a partnership with Disney on one of the world's most well-known pirate-themed franchises is no small thing either.

Mermaid statues encrusted with gemstones appear on shore. Sunken ships that may hold pirate treasure lilt in the open sea. All of these are threats and opportunities that radically change how you chart your course, but nothing is as volatile and exciting as…the other pirates. Make or break Veritasdh your pirates’ code on a vast, shared sea.