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Age of Booty

Set in the swashbuckling era, Age of Booty is a casual real-time multiplayer strategy game that puts players at the helm of their own pirate ship with the goal of sending your enemies to the briny deep, and…

77 15 October 2008

Age of Booty is an arcade developed by Certain Affinity, released 15 October 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Age of Booty is

Age of Booty is an arcade game developed by Certain Affinity and released in 2008. It was published by Capcom. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set in the swashbuckling era, Age of Booty is a casual real-time multiplayer strategy game that puts players at the helm of their own pirate ship with the goal of sending your enemies to the briny deep, and looting and capturing towns for your pirate faction. In Age of Booty, players team up with other online players or AI-controlled pirate ships to raid, pillage, sink, and destroy their way to dominance on the high seas. Spoils of war and booty are used to upgrade and customize pirate ships to make them even more deadly as players take on 25 unique challenges and seven of the most devious Pirate Alliances on the high seas. Gain notoriety and fame by climbing the online leader boards…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

Age of Booty holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 60% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz, Intel Celeron 1.7 Ghz, or AMD Athlon xp 1800+ or better, 512 MB RAM and ATI Radeon 9600 / NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Age of Booty launched on 15 October 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space and LittleBigPlanet. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space, LittleBigPlanet.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

Age of Booty — frequently asked questions

When did Age of Booty come out?
Age of Booty was released on 15 October 2008 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Age of Booty?
At minimum, Age of Booty needs Intel Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz, Intel Celeron 1.7 Ghz, or AMD Athlon xp 1800+ or better, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 / NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 graphics, 400 MB free hard disk space of storage.
How many GB is Age of Booty?
The PC version needs about 0.4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("400 MB free hard disk space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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