Hot on the heels of the release of Rome: Total War for Macintosh, Feral Interactive has announced the release date for their next game in their Feral Legends series, Brothers In Arms: Double Time. Developed by Gearbox Software, Brothers In Arms: Double Time will bring the first two games in the Brothers in Arms series—Road to Hill 30 and Earned in Blood—to the Mac on April 16th.

Rather than try to explain what type of game Pirates is, it may be easier to just say that it’s not a first-person shooter, and it’s not a hidden puzzle game. It is pretty much everything else. Pirates combines action, adventure, turn-based strategy, resource management, people sims and rhythm games (yes, rhythm games) into one unit. Each element stands on its own, but they work together well.

The story is that your happy and apparently well-off family was about to sit down to a tasty meal, when the traditionally evil government-types barge in and send everyone away to prison. You escape, and grow up resorting to a life of piracy to get by. Throughout the game, the locations of various family members is revealed. Find them, and you’ll be rewarded with treasure tips and such. But, you don’t have to find your family. The beauty of Pirates is that the goal is simply to retire rich and married, and it’s completely up to you on how you get there.

Full review after the break.

Last Thursday, the good folks at Feral Interactive announced they’d be publishing Sid Meier’s Pirates for the Mac. Having been a huge fan of the game back in its Apple IIGS incarnation, I was both surprised and thrilled with the announcement. What I found most intriguing, however, was the announcement that Sid Meier’s Pirates was being published as part of the “Feral Legends Series,” of which I’d previously heard no mention. So, immediately after posting the announcement, I got in contact with Brad Gibson at Feral to see if he could tell me a bit more about what this Legends Series entails.

Find out what he was willing (and not willing) to tell me after the break.