Pirates Of The Burning Sea: Gamespot's CES Impressions of PotBS

Gamespot got a first hand look at Pirates of the Burning Sea at Las Vegas's Consumer Electronics Show. It doesn't really contain anything earth-shatteringly new but it's a good read nonetheless:

The game's player-versus-player system is pretty interesting, though, as you can only be attacked if you sail into a PVP zone. These zones erupt if players cause instability in a port by attacking it, either militarily or economically. The more instability caused in a port, the larger the PVP zone around it, and it can become so large that it engulfs other ports. If you sail into this zone, you can be attacked by other players. So if you're carrying time-sensitive goods in your cargo hold, you'll have to weigh the risks of either sailing through a PVP zone or taking a longer route around it. Any way you look at it, Pirates of the Burning Sea looks and feels like a refreshing change of pace in a genre that's full of sword-and-sorcery clones.

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