Unlike the 90's where new subsims were being produced annually, the new decade saw the trend decline. Sonalysts created two new games, Sub Command and Dangerous Waters. Akella came out with a few varieties of pirate games, and Tesseraction released Enigma, but the most consistent title was Ubisoft's Silent Hunter series. Ultimation kept the franchise breathing with SH2, Producer Florin Boitor and the Romanians exploded the genre with SH3. At E3, I knew on first glance that SH3 was a benchmark simulation. It still has not been surpassed. The standard of excellence continued with SH4 and the upcoming SH5 looks to bring a virtual boat to life. Silent Hunter games always feature a realistic, functional TDC and the essential options that permit the player to simulate combat (as opposed to merely playing a game) with limited map updates and target information. Today, when you talk of sub games, you're talking Silent Hunter.