Pirates of the Caribbean Armada of the Damned - What Happened?

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Sources:

Unseen64 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned [X360 PS3 PC – Cancelled]

GamesRadar via WayBackMachine - Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned

Game Developer - Propaganda Developing Pirates Of The Caribbean: Armada Of The Damned

IGN.com - Disney Interactive Studios Announces Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned

IGN.com - Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned Cancelled

GamesRadar via WayBackMachine - 5 ways Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned is avoiding the movie-licensed shitstorm

Game Informer vie WayBackMachine - Pirates Offers More Than Expected

IGN.com - Pre-E3 2009: Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned Unveiled

IGN.com - First Look at Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned

IGN.com - Disney Cancels Infinity, No Longer Self-Publishing Games

Music:

Donkey Kong Country - Gangplank Galleon
Pirate Ship - Zack & Wiki
Cutthroat Carival - Skylanders Giants
Song of Storms - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Eternal Struggle - Soul Calibur II
Shoot Down Sky Pirates - Jak and Daxter The Lost Frontier
Soul Blade - Bravely Folk Song

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[MattMcMuscles]

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[FletcherReedsRandomness]

Pirates of the Caribbean as a franchise needs a dedicated episode. The first movie was dangerously close to being cancelled multiple times, the second movie’s script was being written DURING shooting, and the usual woes of making movies on the water came in full force.

[alonmizrahi]

I remember when I joined the team as a co op engineer, I was transferred to the pirates team after turok 2 got shutdown, 2 weeks after I was hired. I remember at that time we were focusing getting a vertical slice ready for Disney to give green light. Everyone on the team were able to find jobs all around vancouver after the studio shutdown. Great talent!

[DJx]

You know it's gonna be a good episode when you haven't even heard of the project in question.

[benhaworth]

God that bit about the lead character designer getting told "well he doesn't look as good as Nathan Drake" after only a few weeks of work. Infuriating!

Money men don't seem to understand there isn't some magic make this look great button. Nathan Drake took years of development and insane patience and hard work. Just give the artists time!

[sablebranwen]

I think this was the first video game cancellation that really hurt me. This game was too damn cool to live!

[FOXZILLA]

It's a shame that this game got cancelled, it really had a lot going for it and had the potential to be one of the best licensed games out there.

[jasonblalock]

3:03 Relatedly, the one that made me sad was the GBA Dead Man's Chest. You get an isometric map of the Caribbean to explore, randomly-spawning ships to attack, cities to pillage, shops for ship upgrades, and so on. It was basically a portable Sid Meier's Pirates, with some platforming stages thrown in... except that the entire game can be 100%ed in 3-4 hours.

They were so close to having a genuinely good pirate game at a time that was rare (much less on a handheld), but they just didn't include enough content, making for a game that ends just as you're starting to get into it.

[HardCodedGaming]

Can I just say I love seeing ad reads spotlighting indie games and not just the usual YouTube sponsors? Very happy to be hearing about a cool new FPS and not a VPN

[Scum]

This is actually really sad because, honestly, if Disney Interactive was operating at such a big loss for such a long time, if I were in the position to make the decisions... I might have made the same call. Any projects close enough to the finish line could stay, everything else gets cancelled. Let all of those finish and look at the results, then try to focus on "the next big thing" in Infinity (...I would not have thought that, but we're assuming in this situation I also believed that for some reason). If someone went very deep into every currently ongoing project to find the most promising ones, rather than the nearest-to-done ones, they hopefully would have seen this one as very promising and left it alone, but depending on how many projects there were that might not be possible.

It really feels like this was just a perfect storm of circumstances that killed this game, and it almost feels like no one is really in the wrong here, just a case of wrong place, wrong time.

[jesseperry]

This one really is heartbreaking. Armada had real potential to be something special. I really would like to have gotten the chance to play it.

[emilysong]

Anyone else here hoping we see Skele-Matt's awesome pirate captain design make a return for the inevitable Skull and Bones episode coming.. whenever Ubisoft gets their act together and releases it?

[luigirules]

Pirates of the Caribbean Online and Lego Pirates of the Caribbean were my favorite games from the franchise.

[XeronosKuro]

It's a shame that the Mouse has drawn back on video games for the most part.

Armada seemed to be a great game to be finished and possibly make a major stand for a movie based game.

I think at some point, someone will uncover the game's files and eventually release them to the public.

[BlizzardWindowsNT]

This game by far had the coolest name, it's a shame they never used it. Also, I was hoping you would cover this one.

[KentheDeer]

I remember being very excited for Armada of the Damned and so disappointed when it got cancelled. One of those “they should bring that idea back” kind of games that I wish could get made nowadays…

[GenerationWest]

I've barely heard of this game, and yet I remember it being made during the height of every property getting an MMO at that point
...it was the style at the time!

[James-gjrn]

LET'S FLIPPING GO!!! I was SO excited for this one back in 2010, too bad it never saw the light of day, man i wish we could get it revived :)

[Exaar]

Oh man I forgot about that "CAPTAIN! Sea of Thieves clip, it never stops being hilarious

[darthcinema]

This one still hurts. I was a huge fan of Pirates of the Caribbean and this game looked awesome. I wish Risen 2 was canceled instead