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Silent Hunter: Wolves of the Pacific Review (continued)
More User Submitted Silent Hunter: Wolves of the Pacific Reviews
Date: 2007-06-27
Silent Hunter, Wolves of the Pacific
With my computer this game runs real good. Its a time consuming game.
The graphics are great,and I love the camora views you can use when your
under water. This is alot harder game than the first.
Date: 2007-06-02
Does not work
For background I have played all the Silent Hunter gamers from early DOS SS! To the new Wolves of the Pacific. The NEW Wolves of the Pacific is the worst I have played. Buttons don't work, short keys have been changed and it crashes big time. Silent Hunter 3 (MS Flight simulator) does not crash in the same PC. FYI my systems is a P4 3.0 gigahertz with ATI Radon 9800 Pro 128mb with 2 gigs of 3200 ram.
I have also noted 2 current upgrades for a game that has only been out for a few weeks. The graphics are very good with a lot of detail that is not really needed. I would rather have a robust game like SH III that runs and functions. I would not recommend this game for at least several months to see if UBI get all the bugs fixed. They should have stayed with the same game engine and configuration as SH (which works) instead of adding way to many little things that make the game unplayable. It is Sad that SH 3 works fine but Wolves of the Pacific crashes big time on the same PC.
Date: 2007-05-24
Good game hobbled by poor management
This game would be fun to play if it hadn't been rushed out the door like it was. Even after two patches, critical issues remain with the AI, the chronometer does not work as advertised, radar and sonar do not work properly, and the measurement system does not work properly when using imperial units. To top it off, due to poor past decisions made by Ubisoft, we are stuck with inappropriate Allied aircraft (Lancasters in the Pacific? LOL), only one fleet carrier for the USN (and an early-war one at that) and medals that are totally fantasy. Had this game been published by anyone else and given proper time to develop, these problems wouldn't exist. As is stands, Silent Hunter 4 1.2 is a good game but still hindered by bugs and omissions that shouldn't have been there to start with.
Date: 2007-05-19
Great game but released unfinished!
This will probably be a great game after it is properly patched. They have only released patch 1.2 as I write this and unfortunately, there are still major issues to be corrected. I am a huge fan of Silent Hunter III (that is a 5 star game, by the way).
So, the game as it is now, is not great. If you buy it now, you will join me as an unwanted beta playtester for Ubisoft that should have waited and released the game when it was READY!
If they continue releasing patches and fix all the issues, this will probably be a 5 star game at some point in the future.
It is a real shame, really, I would like to have been writing a great review for this game...
Date: 2007-05-13
Very impressed
For those of you who are willing to put the time into learning a game (meaning hours) in order to get better at it and truly feel a sense of accomplishment out of it, then this is your game. With the recent patches that have come out for Silent Hunter IV, there are no bugs that I've noticed at all.
Simply put, this game is beautiful with some of the best ocean/water/reflective graphics ever. When something is just a few feet underwater and you're looking at it from above the surface, it looks like the real frickin' thing. Ships blow up and sink REAL good in this game too. What's creepy but fun is watching the ship you sunk, sink all the way to the bottom of the ocean (where it's pretty dark). The view underwater is incredible too beams of light coming from the surface and seaweed along the bottom.
The gameplay is incredible once you get the hang of it, like I said it takes time. You can adjust the realism features (oxygen, fuel, etc.) in order to make it more rookie-friendly. Unfortunately the tutorial/training mode is very lacking, it doesn't really explain anything to you like it should because there's a LOT of little quirks that you have to read about to understand. [...]
Avoid if you're looking for something fast-paced and action-oriented all the time. Buy it now if you love accurate simulations of WW2 subs.
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