1 Jun 2007

Silent Hunter 4 - Wolfes of the Pacific

Ok some more details about the game. Here is a list of pros/cons if you consider buying it:

Pros

  • very realistic graphics - highly detailed graphics, even the crews of destroyers and battleships walk on the ships.
  • crew management - you can assign crew members to vital positions or replace injured crew members.
  • many playable ships - altough most of them "feel" the same (might be my lack of understanding/experience)
  • interesting dynamic mission builder for online missions (will create random formations at random places in the pacific)
  • navigation tools - on the map you have a pencil, a ruler and a circle which help marking spotted ship's paths. This could be done by the program but adds some more realism to the game.
Cons
  • bad quality - patch 1.2 was released not so long ago and there are still many vital bugs which should be fixed. ubi has not yet made a statement if there wll be a patch 1.3
  • missing online game lobby - it is possible to join online games trough the built in ubi lobby. The problem is that no chat is available nor a list of connected players. Usually there are zero servers waiting for players, thus many players think it does not work.
  • The campaign is somewhat boring after some time. The missions are automaticly generated, however it happend to me that I had to play the same mission over and over again (maybe 30 times) then I quit the career.

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