Now it's time for Sid Meier and Firaxis Games to bring this exquisitely rich, action-adventure game into the 21st century. An entirely new game engine will deliver updated gameplay, stunning new features, spectacular 3D graphics and enhanced surround sound, so players can fully experience the intrigue, adventure and danger of life as a pirate on the Spanish Main.

What works

- Installs with no special changes

- Plays with no special changes

- Everything works (it's just slow and ugly)

What does not

- Installation from two CDs. I had to copy everything to a folder on the hard drive because it never gave me the option to change CDs (it just failed when it couldn't find something on the second CD).

- Models render badly. They are blocky and have ghosting like you get on a bad TV. I sort of feel like I'm looking at one of those "3D" movies while I play (they ones where you need the blue and red glasses).

- Extremely laggy during any events (talking to governor, recruiting people, beginning of fencing, end of fencing, etc.). It seems to lock up but it's actually just really slow.

What was not tested
Nothing I can think of.

Additional Comments

I had trouble choosing between Gold and Platinum. Technically everything works, it's just not rendering very well and kind of slow. I'm going with Gold because the lagginess makes it hard to play.

Admin note: rating changed to conform to the rating definitions.

	Distribution	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" x86_64	Apr 27 2013	1.5.29	Yes	Yes	Platinum	Harry
Show	Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal" x86_64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Nov 20 2012	1.4.1	No, but has workaround	Yes	Gold	Niels
Show	Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	May 09 2011	1.3.19	No, but has workaround	Yes	Silver	ML
Show	Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jan 11 2010	1.3.13	Yes	Yes	Gold	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jan 28 2011	1.3.11	Yes	No	Garbage	Andrew Gray