For all of its lack of depth, Free Realms really does make up for it in plain old fun. It’s like walking through a giant candy store while your parents are locked in a car outside; the Free Realms team just love to throw everything gooey and delicious at its players and Pirate’s Plunder, the new mini game expansion going live today March 19th 2010 – is no exception. I mean – everyone love’s to play a pirate right? Well, maybe with the exception of ninjas.
Pirate’s Plunder puts you in charge of your own pirate ship in an action-packed race to collect treasure. Your color-coded island hideout is where you offload treasure or change ships. The watery battlefield features obstacles like whirlpools and other sea effects like currents that can affect how you move around the map.
This welcome addition to the world of Free Realms was spearheaded by longtime Sony Game Developer and now the new Sr. Producer for Free Realms, David Georgeson (aka Mister_Qixter) who has been making games for over 20 years including the Everquest space cousin PlanetSide. He was also involved in the development of other cool RPG and RTS games that include the popular Mechwarrior II series, Heavy Gear 2, Crusaders of Might & Magic, Mage Knight: Apocalypse, zOMG!, Absolute Zero and interestingly enough Pools of Darkness – one of the very first Advanced Dungeons and Dragons video games ever. Cool!
Along with the mini-game, paid FR members will also be able to purchase new pirate-oriented clothing and housing items, perhaps even a pirate ship for outside their in-game home?
Other tasty treats include a new tiger pet, and “Pet Pals”, which are “cute little mini pets that follow you around the world and keep you company.” Like everything else that is cool in Free Realms, Pet Pals can be bought for coin or cold hard Station Cash.
That aside, we are very excited about the addition of Pirate’s Plunder AND Mister_Qixter because it means things can only get better as Free Realms approaches its first birthday.
Learn more about “Pirate’s Plunder” at the Official Free Realms site
