Silent Hunter III review

[Nikademus]

Yum!

[:D]

[Riun T]

I played,{SUNK}TONS of SHII and am the only person that completed all the missions! heard lots of folks had greef and wonder if the requirments of system are out for SHIII?

[freeboy]

Well I hated the linked missions in SS@, will probably be a make or break, either they put in a dynamic campeign or I will skip it, too much else out there that looks exceptional!

[Tankerace]

Am I the only one that still plays Silent Hunter: Commanders Edition? Never get tired of it. I love the TDC, after you get the hang of manual there is no going back to auto.

My hope for SHIII is that the TDC works. The one in SH2 was clumsy, and I don't think I ever hit anything with it. The SH1 TDC, I'd get 4 out of 6 fish in a spread on a target (that is, if I wasn't still cruising around in my S boat with 4 tubes).

I still play Command Aces of the Deep, though not as much as SH1. I had to stop playing SH2/DC when the Nvidia drivers (ironically, the ones you have to have to play WitP well) ruined them.

OOH, Almost for got about the GNB series. I still play 2-4. Finally got em working in WinXP.

[riverbravo]

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

Yeah baby [:D]

Looks good,I hope the sounds and gameplay are as good as that screenie!!

Call me a freak but I liked to watch Das Boot (the directors cut) while I was playing SH2[8|]

I live about a block off the water so when I open the windows in the house I can smell the salt coming from the salt water....Imagine that.I also used play SH2 in real time....yup...only sometimes would I crank up the speed.I would dive deep and run on batteries and fall asleep watching Das Boot and lisyening to the sub creek and moan from the pressure....yea I admit it ....Im a strange dude...[;)][8D]

[Tankerace]

I don't think thats too awkward, but then again everytime I play SH1 (to this day) I usually watch Destination Tokyo, Crash Dive, Run Silent Run Deep, or Operation Petticoat.

[New York Jets]

It looks great. My only complaint about these games is the lack of a non-linear campaign system.

Back in the mid-eighties I had a game on my old Commodore 128 called Epyx Sub Battle Simulator. It included full campaigns for both a German U-Boat in the ETO (1939-45) and an American submarine in the PTO (1941-45). There were game generated missions, mind you, but the campaigns were completely non-linear. You could go anywhere in the theater of operations you wanted to engage the enemy.

I haven't seen this feature in any of the other games in this genre susequently published. Maybe there were some, but I din't see them.

[Tankerace]

Umm, you haven't read to indepth then have you? It was supposed to be out a month or two ago, but they shelved it, tossed out the linear campaign, and are putting in a dynamic campaign. Ubi finally realized that it was SH2's linear campaign that drove people back to AOD and SH1. Its gonna be great!

FYI, Aces of the Deep, its Windows remake Command Aces of the Deep, and Silent Hunter 1 all had dynamic campaign games. You would be assigned a patrol zone (based on the period of war), and you could patrol it at your leisure. IT was all random, and if you went into a harbor it would randomly put ships in it, some docked, some patroling, some coming in, and some leaving. Very immersive. AOD did the same thing, and Ubi says so will SH3 now.

[New York Jets]

ORIGINAL: Tankerace

Umm, you haven't read to indepth then have you? It was supposed to be out a month or two ago, but they shelved it, tossed out the linear campaign, and are putting in a dynamic campaign. Ubi finally realized that it was SH2's linear campaign that drove people back to AOD and SH1. Its gonna be great!

FYI, Aces of the Deep, its Windows remake Command Aces of the Deep, and Silent Hunter 1 all had dynamic campaign games. You would be assigned a patrol zone (based on the period of war), and you could patrol it at your leisure. IT was all random, and if you went into a harbor it would randomly put ships in it, some docked, some patroling, some coming in, and some leaving. Very immersive. AOD did the same thing, and Ubi says so will SH3 now.

Thanks for the info.

[donkuchi19]

I loved both Silent Service and Red Storm Rising. I have tried to get into Silent Hunter II but I just can't get into it.

I loved all the missions in Red Storm Rising. Nothing like launching a Harpoon at a Soviet Missile Cruiser and then surfacing to take out its helicopters with some mast launched SAM's. What a game.

[freeboy]

anyone know if this is still on track for 2005?

[marky]

ive heard it set for Feb 22 2005

tho wen i first heard of it, it was set for SEPTEMBER 04!!

then it was set for november i think

then december

AND THEN JANUARY

grrr

i hate wen they do that

silent hunter 3 is already displaying the "Harpoon 4 syndrome"

i cant wait to play it tho


website - im nto sure if thsi is the official website, i haven seen much of it but here it is -


http://www.silent-hunteriii.com/uk/home.php


enjoy [:D]

[marky]

i just saw it at a game site, and set for MARCH 22

so dont get ur hopes up

[Cmdrcain]

Give me a WW II Sub Sim, There was one, I think Microprose put out that I played to death with my C-64, the name in my aged brain escapes me, you went hunting from allied bases in australia and other areas and hunted convoys with the occasional warships..

I KNOW the Name I just can't get past the memory block..

Modern sub sims never have grabbed me like WW-II based sub sims..

[2ndACR]

Silent Service is the name you are looking for.

IMO, the best games ever designed came out on the C64/128. They defined computer wargaming. I can not remember how many hours I wasted playing Silent Service, Gettysburg, Battles of Napoleon.

God, those were the days.

[RBWhite]

Silent Service I
Silent Hunter I
Silent Hunter II [played it once couldn't get into it, uninstalled it. [2 yrs ago]
Red Storm Rising
688I Hunter/Killer [Janes]
Fleet Command [Janes]
Sea Wolf
Pacific Air War
Task force 1942

Destroyer Command isn't that bad.

I have a 486/66 running Win 3.11, still play SS, SH, Red Storm etc.
Play 688 Atack Sub on a 586 with an Intel ODP 200 mhz processor.
Play Starflight, Starflight II, Sentinel World, Strike Fleet, Overlord etc on a 386 I think it's a 17 mhz machine.

Does anyone remember or liked Age Of Rifles

Rick White

[freeboy]

age of rifles, played it some... I must have hade 300+ titles dating back to the early 80's
silent service got lots of attention
I didn't see aces on your list.. aces of the deep was an excellent game, too bad they cannot upddate that one and re release it.. AI would pay for
A>>> a good interface,B>>> clean graphics.. doesn't have to be perfect, would like ati fog though!
C>>>> A really hard level and temperature gradients so hide and seek is a reality, silent runnint , super slow but with pumps .. below test etc...
D. and this is a must have.. a dynamic campaiegn as aopposed to a static campaign..
E>>>ability to start in any war year
Cool add on would be head to head convoy commander vs wolf pack
F>>> radio and wolf or group tactics
G allied air power ever increasing including cvl sub hunter groups as they where used historically
H>>> If you use you radio you get allies radio tracking interest and enemy asw assets start plotting and attacking you
I>> replenishment


I know many of these are slated for ss3 lets hope they work well!

"ships on the port quarter Captain, cannot make out type at this range, nor directions.. your orders sir?"
"stear 190 ahead flank"

[RBWhite]

Now that you mention it I really don't know why I never puchased Aces of the deep. I do remember looking at it way back in EB's or Babbages [dating myself]. I'll have to see if I can pick it some where. Al though I wasn't that crazy about Silent Hunter II.


Rick White

[freeboy]

ss2 was a turkey

[RBWhite]

SS2 was the Turkey's butt

It was beyond boring[>:]