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    How is this game and is it worth playing, does it take forever to find the enemy or what. Opinions on this game please, I didnt want to ask on there forums because they all will say its great and here i might get better feedback, thanks all.
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    Originally posted by blackpulpit1970:
    How is this game and is it worth playing, does it take forever to find the enemy or what. Opinions on this game please, I didnt want to ask on there forums because they all will say its great and here i might get better feedback, thanks all.
    Wow! Now that is what I would call absurdly convoluted logic! Thanks for the laugh!
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    I like it a lot, and it's generally a very well-liked sim (look at people's opinions at gamespot for example http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/silen...i/readers.html). It's currently third in my list of games (used to be no1 for some weeks after I bought it); too bad I only have time for half to one and a half game .
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    3. Silent Hunter III
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    SH3 is and has been my favorite game since I purchased it a few months ago. I only play it "full real" (except time compression as I don't want to REALLY spend a few weeks on a patrol - though you could and some have). The learning curve in some ways is steep and you can only save your career in port (which many complain about but if you could save during patrol it would be like being able to save mid-flight; i.e. this looks bad "save" and die - reload try again and live; fine in shooter game but not in sim imho) so once you launch on patrol you can spend a few hours playing get killed and you are back in port at start of that patrol. I only play when I know I have a few hours free so I can finish a full patrol. Even using time compression this is not a game for "twitch & shoot" players but I have never found it boring - setting up an attack on a convoy while hiding from escorts or evading from pursuing destroyers while your air grows stale and your batteries low produce their own adrenaline rushes.
    The graphics are wonderful and once you get the hang of operating the boat and handling your crew locating targets and such is no problem - I have yet to go on patrol and not engage something. Buy it, crank up your subwoofer, turn down the lights, and discover the joy of splitting destroyers in two after you've set up a perfect attack
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    1. Detailed, but rather slow-paced. The time compression feature is helpful.

    2. It can take a long time to find a target. Finding an enemy, however, becomes quite a bit easier with each patrol.

    This is a game for realism devotees. It's one of the most detailed, true simulations on the market on any subject outside of sports.

    Much more of a simulation than a game, IMO, but that's fine by me.
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    SH3 rocks! Graphics are killer (thanks to all the great mods available) and gameplay is a blast. Besides PF and COD2, SH3 is the only other game I play now (sorry, BF2 ain't in the right war era for me ). Get it and go to these two sites for info, forums, questions and downloads.....

    http://www.subsim.com/

    http://www.silent-hunteriii.com/uk/home.php

    have fun!


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    SH3 is great fun, and you can tune it to your level of committment. There are quick mission o you can get in and let fly, or you can crank up the realism and difficulty to levels where you have to do most of the targeting manually, and spend hours stalking a convoy.

    Oh, and you can save mid-mission, don't know if this a function of realism level.

    Warning though, it does eat up hours!
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    Ok, since, as the original poster said
    here i might get better feedback
    , can someone tell me how you spot targets easily now? I play full real and finding targets is my main issue. I'd play it more if I solved that. Well my fellow Renaissance Gamers, who play all, know all, and hopefully share all?
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    SH3 is still **** good looking, even without mods. I did a reinstall and patched it up.. and can't remember why i stopped playing? I think it had something to do with my first campain crashing horribly and unrecoverably. But the new patches seems to keep it steady.

    It's almost as amazing as Aces of the deep was when it was new (not the windows version).

    (a little warning: it is a starforce protected game)
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    Originally posted by blackpulpit1970:
    How is this game and is it worth playing, does it take forever to find the enemy or what. Opinions on this game please, I didnt want to ask on there forums because they all will say its great and here i might get better feedback, thanks all.
    Hmmm. Your post is slightly strange. You seem to be complaining that SHIII might take forever to find an enemy...

    Well it won`t take forever, but you won`t be finding ship after wondering in front of your torpedoes happily. You`ll have to do a bit of work.

    It`s a submarine simulation. Submarines go through water, ergo slow. they take time to find something because the sea is big, ergo slow.

    But it`s an excellent submarine sim as it does what it`s supposed to do... slowly find and sink ships. The `fun` is the chasing, searching, sinking the hapless ship then avoiding destroyers and attack aircraft.

    It takes a particuler kind of player to play, perhaps the kind of player who`s into realistic simmish games.

    If you managed to read through this without switching off, then SHIII might just suit you.
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