Critic Reviews
- When I finish off an enemy ship in Black Flag, time slows and the camera zooms in, allowing me to witness the magnificent brutality of powder stores exploding as masts snap like matchsticks. Skull and Bones can’t offer spectacle, because playing with time and camerawork might risk affecting another player’s experience. The result is something that’s dulled down to the point that everyone shares the same mediocrity, and I have to wonder what happened to this poor little project during the many years it was stuck on the seas of development hell.
Jason Ricardo · Mar 05, 2024 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - Skull and Bones is a dull exercise in checklist progression, spiced here and there with some impressive sailing.
Josh Wise · Mar 04, 2024 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - Skull and Bones is a dull exercise in checklist progression, spiced here and there with some impressive sailing.
Josh Wise · Mar 04, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Skull and Bones non è un gioco di pirati, ma un gioco di guerre navali in salsa piratesca che offre il fianco a critiche alle scelte fatte nell'ambito del sistema di navigazione, poco realistico, e di quello d'esplorazione, fin troppo pilotato. Nonostante questo, se lo si prende per quello che è, ovvero un gioco di battaglie navali nel XVII secolo dal cuore multigiocatore, il titolo di Ubisoft si lascia giocare e regala attimi di adrenalina durante le battaglie o gli assalti che sono a tratti entusiasmanti e divertenti. Nel mondo videoludico attuale è possibile correggere le sorti di un gioco in corso d’opera e renderlo progressivamente più appetibile per la potenziale clientela, quindi l'arrivo di contenuti ed aggiornamenti potrebbe potenzialmente portare graditi miglioramenti: lo auguriamo ad Ubisoft ed a tutti gli amanti di titoli pirateschi!
Antonio Di Lorenzo · Mar 04, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Skull & Bones isn’t a horrible game at all, but its not the game that we wanted. I mean all they had to do was just remove the assassin’s vs templar story from what they had with Black Flag and let us be pirates. I don’t know, I am just a black guy with a laptop and a big mouth; I am certain that game development is more difficult than all that. Skull & Bones offers some fun and often times thrilling combat, but the downtime and story in-between all that is just not interesting. This game is going to end up being another victim of chasing that ole dragon which is live service game success. Its not for every game, and hopefully, prayerfully developers will stop trying to attain this high and just set this fad out to sea.
Terrence Johnson · Feb 29, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - Skull and Bones may have survived the turbulent seas of its long voyage to release, but the end result is a game that's barely kept afloat by its solid sailing mechanics, while the uninspiring content, underwhelming presentation, and poor multiplayer design punch far too many holes in the hull.
Alex V · Feb 27, 2024 Reviewed on Series X|SRead full review - The world is indeed wide enough for Skull and Bones and the increasingly few pirate games out there. But be careful. It won't let you get comfy. And after a long time in production, there's still work to do before Skull and Bones is feature complete.
Randy Kalista · Feb 27, 2024 Reviewed on PC, PS5, Series X|SRead full review - Ubisoft has got this genre of at the intersection of MMO and RPG right before, so it’s dumbfounding to see it miss so hard here. The game isn’t bad, it’s just painfully average. An unexceptional Ship of Theseus with no wind in its sails.
Hamish Lindsay · Feb 27, 2024 Reviewed on PC, Series X|SRead full review - With an extensive roadmap for the year ahead – and with the proviso that the crowd of onlookers at Sainte-Anne continue to whoop and holler every time I make berth – I can, at least, see an eventual return to Skull and Bones on my horizon.
Steph Panecasio · Feb 26, 2024 Reviewed on PS5Read full review - Skull and Bones might have been a better game had it released sooner, but at it's fun combat is dampened by its rather dull progression.
Chris White · Feb 26, 2024 Reviewed on PS5Read full review
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Enter the perilous world of Skull and Bones, where you play by your own rules to rise from a nobody to become the most fearsome pirate kingpin. Craft a variety of unique ships, forge unlikely alliances, and take part in thrilling naval battles as you overcome the odds and bring mayhem on the seas. Be part of an immersive world that introduces new challenges and features every season.
Developer: Ubisoft