You know I really love my world war 2 sims, and I really love Silent hunter 3 and 4, they were both solid games.
That said, Silent Hunter 5 is an example of programmers trying to over-do something that is already done well. Instead of making suttle refinements and incorporating user modifications, they went overboard with silly effects and techniques that are implemented poorly and frankly have no place in this game.
It is clear that someone dropped the ball on Quality Control because this game can bring a quad core to it's knees. The way the controls work out are also poorly implemented. They have gone away from station keys to a system where you have to walk an avatar around the sub to get to stations (something I find super unrealistic, no captain had to walk to every station to get something done). There is also a "crew moral" system which is flawed at best.
What they have done is tried to dumb down the game to a "Console Level" not taking into account that simulating a sub can't be done by nor operated by "dumb people". I really find it laughable that they were trying to make this game for a "dumb downed crowd" but that is exactly what they tried to do in order to get more sales, in the end it will backfire and this will be the worst sales of all the series. What were you guys thinking? Xbox360 for a subsim? You should have your game making credentials revoked for such a stupid idea.
I will leave the game on my drives for a while, but I don't see it making the cut, it is just so bad that SH4 in it's current form puts it to shame.
All in all it is the worst of the series and I would suggest that people skip this one and just get SH 4 with all the mods. I would also suggest that people Email the makers of this game and let them know exactly how bad it is, and also let it come off with a warning that until they start making products that actually work, we wont buy them.
Hawthorne.
It's trash.The game is a cluster fuck of bad. Nothing but quests and horrible queueing PVP systems. I've personally written better sytems for emulators.
I cant believe the level of mmo turd's being dumped on the market. This one is a stinker.
Hawthorne
