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In Silent Hunter III you take command of a German U-Boat (submarine), operating in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. You will lead a captain’s career that begins in a year of your choice, starting in a year from 1939 to 1944, assigned to the flotilla of your choice, which influences your initial base and sub type. After those choices, the dynamic campaign takes over, and time progresses at a steady pace, while you and the AI are waging war against Britain and its allies from both on the sea and under it.
There are four main types of U-Boat (II, VII, IX, and XXI) along with several variants of each sub. Along with the
In Silent Hunter III you take command of a German U-Boat (submarine), operating in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. You will lead a captain’s career that begins in a year of your choice, starting in a year from 1939 to 1944, assigned to the flotilla of your choice, which influences your initial base and sub type. After those choices, the dynamic campaign takes over, and time progresses at a steady pace, while you and the AI are waging war against Britain and its allies from both on the sea and under it.
There are four main types of U-Boat (II, VII, IX, and XXI) along with several variants of each sub. Along with the different sub types, there are different armaments that are able to be mounted on/in the submarine, such as the deck gun and the flak cannon, as well as differing types of torpedoes, hydrophones, engines, batteries, etc. Depending on what stage of the war you’re in, you’ll have access to different levels of technology and submarine augmentations. Your successes at sea will also determine the upgrades that you can take.
You will be able to award your crew with medals and promotions, each of whom carry over and improve from mission to mission, provided that they survive (and that your submarine returns from its patrol). Sailors can specialize in certain elements of the submarine, and while they are working in those areas (e.g. torpedo rooms, engine rooms, etc), the performance of that part of the submarine will be supplemented by their skill. Your crew will tire over the course of each 1-2 week patrol, and careful management is sometimes required so that you’re not lacking manpower when the pressure is on. Death of your submarine and crew can come from aircraft in the sky, destroyers on the sea, or even the sea itself.
Simply put, this game is a WW2 naval submarine simulator, supplemented with the latest in pixel shading graphics technology to provide an impressive ocean, as well as making use of DirectX 9.0 and all the eye candy that modern graphics cards are capable of implementing. The simulation’s damage model is sophisticated, and depending on where you land your torpedoes and deck cannon fire (and what part of the ship that you target), you will be met with varying results, ranging from light flooding of the ship to completely splitting the ship into two. The plague of dud torpedoes is modeled as well, so even if you hit, you might be met with just a loud ‘clang’.
As with most modern simulators, Silent Hunter III allows you to enable or disable certain options that make parts of the game either quite a bit easier, or quite a bit harder. These options range from the visual stability of your periscope in high seas, easier targeting, what cameras you can use (including forced first-person), even whether your submarine has an infinite amount of diesel fuel. Casual players need not be chased off by the heavy simulation elements, because of this ability to tweak the realism.
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Manufacturer: Ubisoft
Release date: 17 March 2005
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 3307210171207
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