If you like racing cars, you’re set these days. Planes your thing? No problem. There’s the venerable Microsoft Flight Simulator, if you just want to fly. There’s Lock On if you want to blow stuff up. There’s also a few other options.
Want to be a submariner? Not so fast there, Timmy! Your options are limited. Very limited. It’s a genre which has never been swamped with titles. In fact you could probably count the number of submarine sims in the last five years on one hand, and still have room to count some body parts.
Silent Hunter III fills the void, though maybe not in a genre expanding way. If nothing else, you have to laugh at a game that has a cd-key to “protect it”. Then places it on the disk. A disk which will be in the drive, installing the game, when you need it. Moronic copy protection strikes again. Priceless!
The game has issues, but after reading the review, I have this strange urge to watch Das Boot again.
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Silent Hunter III
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