Sea Of Thieves A Pirate's Life Gameplay Trailer Revealed At Xbox Games Showcase Extended

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.

After the team had fixed most of the technical issues, they began looking at players' feedback and identified that players were complaining that there were not enough activities for them to participate in. Chapman stated that the team's strategy was to give players what they want, ensure that they fit within the Sea of Thieves universe, and "surprise" players. Rare has four teams of employees working in parallel to create the game's various expansions so that large content update can be released frequently while ensuring that sufficient development time can be given to each team. The team hoped to release a large content update every 6 weeks to 2 months, and used "Bilge Rat Adventures", which are time-limited challenges, to fill the gap between each expansion.

Jack Sparrow, of course, represents one of the key selling points, but the mysterious narrative sounds intriguing, as well. And who isn't curious about the kraken that appears at the tail end of the above trailer? Sea of Thieves fans can find out what it's all about in just a few short days. Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase Extended featured another new look at CaptainJack Sparrow in the forthcoming Sea of Thieves and Pirates of the Caribbean crossover event. To the delight of many a fan, Rare and Xbox announced their partnership with Disney during the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase on June 13.

"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 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.

For Veritasdh 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 your pirates’ code on a vast, shared sea.