The player can buy new ships, recruit a crew and hire officers who will follow Hawk on his quest and help him in battle. Pirates of the Caribbean is an action role-playing game in which the player, as Captain Nathaniel Hawk, goes on a series of quests for any one of the countries that control the islands of the Caribbean in the 17th century. An unrelated game by the same name was also released for mobile phones, as was a Game Boy Advance game. It was still marketed as Sea Dogs 2 in Russia. The game was initially developed as a sequel to Sea Dogs (Корсары), but was eventually changed to correspond to the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Pirates of the Caribbean is a 2003 action role-playing video game for Microsoft Windows and Xbox, developed by Akella and published by Bethesda Softworks.
