After its announcement at 2009 's Electronic Entertainment Expo , the game received positive responses from most video game journalists . Daemon Hatfield from IGN thought it " a promising action RPG " , while GamesRadar praised the gameplay , comparing it to the '' Assassin 's Creed '' franchise . Journalists were disappointed when Disney cancelled the game several months before its planned release date . Ubisoft , the publisher of '' Assassin 's Creed '' , later released a similar game called '' Assassin 's Creed IV : Black Flag '' . '' Armada of the Damned '' was conceived as an action-adventure role-playing video game played from a third-person perspective and set in an open world environment based on the '' Pirates of the Caribbean '' universe . The player was to take the role of James Sterling , a pirate captain whose main mission was to travel across the Caribbean Sea and make a reputation for himself . Some of Sterling 's features could be directly customized by the player , although '' Armada of the Damned '' was centered on a choice system that would affect the character 's appearance , personality , weapons , attacks , quests , and story developments
2009 's Electronic Entertainment Expo
E3 2009
Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned