Hello here, I'm a 16-years-straight gamer with pllllennty of knowledge to back up eeeverything I say so I'd appreciate a no-bs attitude or stuff I can just read in the walkthroughs on this game... Okay... so, here's the deal...

SOME versions of Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat are BUGGED. This is a REAL letdown, since this game reminds me SO MUCH of Grand Theft Auto (all of 'em, newest one especially so.) and I think it's awesome everything they mixed and matched to create a really great game, so I don't plan on giving up... Sea battles are sooo cool... but I just rented the game this time, didn't buy it, and now I'm glad I did...

Point is, some people CANNOT GET THE FIVE HEADHUNTER MASKS REQUIRED TO GET THE VOODOO DOLL: Reason... Some lame-brained map-maker or distributor had it in their right mind to release the wrong version while beginning production of Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, or totally overlook that it is COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to open a Crystal chest with a Stone key. Yes, I know that if you compress stones deeeeep under-ground that over ages of time it WILL turn into a crystal key-- but then it'd need to be refittied... and besides, there's NO DEEP UNDERGROUND CAVES ON ISLANDS IN THE OCEAN... Plus, I still want the treasure from the *-STONE*- chests... I guess the Bay of Tears lives up to it's name. -- Go figure. Psychic Super-Genius here. Anyhoo...

I guess this could be some sort of prank, but at least I feel good knowing that I'm NOT THE ONLY ONE with this problem-- for once (like in so many other games I've had to put up with bugs that ONLY effect me... =( )... and if I get another version of the game it'll play fine-- but then, chances are I'd have to start allll over from the beginning again... and that sucks.

Why does this all matter to me? Some aproximentally 3-4 (6.5) million dollars were spent upon various versions of the Command and Conquer series... non of which filled their profit quotias. How do I know that, you ask? 'cause... politics lie, bald faced or not..., and the game is ALL ABOUT politics. SO HA! LOL. Wonder why they spend all that money if they're not gonna make it back in time? Ha!... Ha Ha Ha!!! LOL!! C'mon, share the wealth... I've produced some of the greatest items ever known to man simply by zapping someone with my knowledge. Gimme me a break! LOL!! Besides that, it's even more of an embarassment to WestWood in my eyes, even more then the not producing of tiberium sun for 6 or 8 years... and believe me, I waited. Sooooo much attention paid to detail, such a great game, great design, but no matter who says what-- YOU CAN'T OPEN a crystal chest without going to the fjords of frost to get the CRYSTAL KEY from the VALKYRIE, and you gotta kill a voodoo master to do that... which requires the 1 tribal mask INSIDE of the crystal chest: Bay of Tears. I did my homework. 7/8 chests found, (ALL seashells found, which was 8.) one chest found laying on the ground... crystal chest. There, that's that. Hehe. I know some of the reasons for this happening, but it's still damn funny and embarassing for WestWood to pull a stunt like that, especially after all the attention paid to the details of the game. I hope the guy responsible was sacked in a grievous manner.

I mean, c'mon westwood, you're worthy of so much more, why hold yourselves back? That's sad. I think you need to study numerology and other various occult knowledge more. It shows. LOL.

SOOOO INCOMPOTENT (Yes, I know I spelt it with an O, that's the way it's SUPPOSED TO BE spelled.)

Whoever thought up the game and created the artwork didn't see this coming... I'm SURE of it.

If the creators simply would've put the Tribal Mask on the mini-stonehedge island LIKE THEY PLANNED this embarassment would've been COMPLETELY avoided. Good god. Like I said, STUDY YOUR OCCULT LITERATURE!!! OUT!!!

YES, OCCULT LITERATURE -*WILL*- CURE THIS FOR YOUR COMRADES IN PROGRAMMING...

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!,
Fury-Justice
(Hah, Hah, Hah...)

You know that one of the masks is on one of the islands on the other side of the map, the dark ones? the other four are on the green islands.

hey Aaron Lance Metzger, use a walkthru or maybe some cheats to get the crystal key.