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Originally Posted by kschang
Well, let's put it this way. By the end of the book, Cheyenne has sunk the Chinese navy thrice over!
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and about three times as many Alfas as were ever actually built.
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I have both the game and the book, and the game is a VASTLY simplified sub sim. It's not really meant to be very realistic at all.
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I wouldn't have minded if you at least had a 3-D viewer. Since the game was built around a spot view of your sub, they could have jazzed it up like the one in SC - more angles and distances, and on objects other than your sub. The sad thing is that Clancy missed out on the resurgent interest in cold war nuc warfare that coincided with "Blind Man's Bluff". Whether the book is accurate or not is one thing, but it stretched attention spans on the subject, leading to many copycat books and Discovery-Channel shows. Had Clancy gotten his timing right and built SSN around a more historic cold war scenario, he might have sold more games.
You can catch my review on Amazon.com