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Silent Hunter III review - 10/30/2004 8:19:45 PM

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*SUBSIM link* I for one can't wait till this title hits the shelves

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/30/2004 9:41:07 PM

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I am more of a Cold-War sub fan. BTW, I did pick up Sub-Command recently, (ya a bit old now). Wondering what your input in it is?

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/30/2004 10:50:48 PM

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Well I see a huge hole in the gender that this title will fill. I was never a big fan of the frist two titles, played them for a time and pulled them off my HD. My fear is the title will rely on graphic's as a selling tool and only then try to address the game play issues the first titles were plagued with.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/31/2004 2:27:16 AM

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Yeah baby

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/31/2004 2:28:18 AM

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Let�s hope it�s good. Since "Aces of the Deep" I didn�t play anything sub related anymore.

Played "Silent Service" for ages.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/31/2004 3:21:50 AM

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I wore out my old C64 playing Red Storm Rising years ago. God I loved that game.

But those graphics sure do look nice.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/31/2004 12:53:52 PM

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If you like Sub Command you'll be happy to know that the sequel, Dangerous Waters is on its way. Check out the official site here: Dangerous Waters Website

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/31/2004 1:22:36 PM

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I wore out my old C64 playing Red Storm Rising years ago. God I loved that game.

But those graphics sure do look nice.

Yep that was a killer game. PLayed it like there was no tommorow.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/31/2004 4:42:08 PM

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Ive never played a sub sim

Always thought that there would be ages of playing before anything happened.

I could imagine it should be very intense like in real life. Does this come across well in this kind of sim?

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/31/2004 5:43:05 PM

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*SUBSIM link* I for one can't wait till this title hits the shelves

It seems the East German team doctors have been experimenting on the crew with anabolic steroids again. I hope they dont take the whole crew off-line if somebody fails the drug screen

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/31/2004 5:46:15 PM

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Yeah baby

WOW.....I'm gonna need a bigger computer

Look at those reflections in the water! Fantastic-looking graphics.

Cool ammo selector too!

I hope they have a stable multiplayer thing.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 10/31/2004 11:10:48 PM

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I too am looking forward to this title. I still play Silent Hunter 2 quite a bit..even with its flaws it is a very enjoyable game for me...Especially with the sound mods from Das Boot.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/1/2004 7:57:59 PM

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If you like Sub Command you'll be happy to know that the sequel, Dangerous Waters is on its way.

I am not sure if I like sub command or not. Played it a bit but on one early level where no matter how quiet or cautious I am, I suddenly die?

I did try to find some sub command forum/clubs, but didn�t find any. This is not very promising.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/1/2004 11:45:59 PM

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Wow. Amazing graphics.

Yes, I played Red Storm Rising on the old C64, too, and am a big fan of SHII, despite its quirks. The modding community has worked wonders on it, though, and my version now little resembles the out-of-the-box game.

I post on the Subsim forums once in a while. Over there, I'm known as Thomsen.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/2/2004 1:09:07 AM

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Let�s hope it�s good. Since "Aces of the Deep" I didn�t play anything sub related anymore.

Played "Silent Service" for ages

Mark, you sound like my Kind of Sub commander, I loved my boat rocking gently as I.. early war, attempted a night surface attack against a hopefully unsuspecting convoy. Aces.. and played ss1 extensively..
Would love to see great realism and graphics come together as much in the last decade ahas not been there for me anyway....
would be cool if these folks allowed head too head against a convoy commander

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/2/2004 2:12:16 AM

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Lets hope they get this one right ... one more flop and there will be no more sub sims ...

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/3/2004 7:57:23 AM

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omg.. omg.. omg.. omg.. omg..

that looks sooo awsome...

I"m gonna play this game on my projector in the basement with all the lights off.. omg omg omg

lol I -love- sub games

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/3/2004 6:40:29 PM

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Never could get into either 688 or Sub Command, and Dangerous Waters only appeals to me for the O.H Perry frigate and P3 Orion so I can HUNT subs. :)

Played the original Silent Hunter to death but SH2 left me cold. Hopefully this one will be a hit. I do have to admit, that's the prettiest explosion I've ever seen in ANY sim.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/4/2004 8:15:17 AM

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If you like Sub Command you'll be happy to know that the sequel, Dangerous Waters is on its way.

I am not sure if I like sub command or not. Played it a bit but on one early level where no matter how quiet or cautious I am, I suddenly die?

I did try to find some sub command forum/clubs, but didn�t find any. This is not very promising.

Go to www.subsim.com and head to the forums. There's a Sub Command section where people are always happy to help. It's got one helluva learning curve, but they'll help you through. Plus there are many links to good SC how-to guides, mods, scenarios and such.

See ya there. ;)

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/10/2004 9:56:08 PM

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Ive played Silenthunter 1. Great game, and you really got that feeling when a destroyer was on top of you dropping explosives. The open ended gameplay was also good, where you got a patrol area rather then missions like in SH2.

Sub Command and 688i were good but i think the missions where to predictable. When you played through them all that was it. But i never did get into the mission editor so that might be it.

But SH3 will properly be canceled if i know Ubisoft right. They canceled Harpoon4

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/11/2004 12:09:00 AM

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Yum!

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/11/2004 7:17:16 AM

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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?

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/17/2004 5:36:03 AM

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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!

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/17/2004 8:11:17 AM

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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.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/19/2004 4:05:21 AM

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Yeah baby

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

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...

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/20/2004 6:14:35 AM

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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.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/20/2004 9:01:14 PM

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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.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/20/2004 9:46:22 PM

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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.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/20/2004 11:40:19 PM

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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.

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RE: Silent Hunter III review - 11/25/2004 2:06:40 AM

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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.

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