Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow Critic Reviews

The actual gameplay doesn’t deviate much from your typical beat-em-up, which becomes monotonous and repetitive at the end of the game’s nine or so hours.

Johnny Depp adds a good deal of credibility to his role in the game (and the movies, for that matter), but as far as late-generation PS2 titles go, this one should walk the plank.

A pretty standard hack-and-slash action game that doesn't deliver on much of the stumblingly bombastic charm of its title character.

For a game that was inspired by a movie that was inspired by a theme park ride that was originally inspired by a book, The Legend of Jack Sparrow is less than inspired.

It is incredibly shallow and repetitive, offering up a fair amount of wasted potential and providing the gamer with little or nothing to really go on, but manages to still be fun.

One of the nicest things about the game is the fact that players will be able to play co-op with another individual.

The only thing this game does right is not inflict an ancient curse on the player.

It may be stupid fun - and it certainly gets monotonous - but at least it is fun. Apologetic kids should be thrilled.

We love Jack Sparrow, but we're disappointed he's not in a better game.

Has all the right parts, but none of them gel together well. The swordplay never truly excites, while the puzzles and enemies never rise above mediocrity.

The combat needed to be tons better to be really enjoyable.

The Legend of Jack Sparrow was very disappointing as a game and hurt the franchise’s appeal as a consequence.

Disney may have a massive hit in the theaters but they have one heck of a dud for the PS2. This almost recalls the fabled "ET" in terms of rushing something, ANYTHING, out the door to cash-in on a popular movie only with better voice work.

Bogged down by a host of flaws, but in the end, it's still a passably entertaining sword-brawler. Its relatively short run-time, clever script and Johnny Depp voice-over are enough to justify a rental for fans of the film.

Plays like hundreds of other action fighting games, and looks worse than half of them.

Jack's narrative is amusing, and pirates are just deliciously cult and cool. But the game walks the plank when you realize that it's a bland, buccaneer version of God of War.

It's still passably entertaining for Pirates fans, but Jack Sparrow's legend deserves a better game.

A lightweight grog and cutlass battler that only just scrapes average thanks to Depp's turn as Sparrow. "Prince of Persia" does the swashbuckling action so much better.

It's a very rudimentary action game with some fairly sloppy gameplay mechanics and AI that's so bad it might as well have been programmed by some sort of weasel-like creature.

Legend has some charm, thanks mostly to Depp, but gets repetitious very quickly.