XPlay SH4 review

[Onkel Neal]

SH4 review by those two at Xplay ;)
Fair review, full of the usual ADD humor, and as Adam says, it's a good sim and hardened subsim players will love it but it is too full of bugs for them to enjoy it. Unfortunate that Ubisoft released the game 3 months early when it was still prone to crashing. Probably cost them a huge number of sales :-?

http://www.g4tv.com/pile_player.aspx?video_key=16087 (http://www.g4tv.com/pile_player.aspx?video_key=16087)

[Packerton]

I still think Silent hunter 3 is better :P

[nfitzsimmons]

I still think Silent hunter 3 is better :P

Well, SH3 has more than 2 years of post-release mods and patches. Let's see what SH4 looks like at the same point in the product cycle.

[SteamWake]

I like apples :)

[CaptainCox]

Actually fired up Sh3 the other day (was looking for some mod related stuff) IT LOOKS OLD NOW!...plays dam good but... with GWX, but looks dated in comparison. I think SH4 will catch up game play wise sooner then later. Anyhow both are darn good sims no matter what one thinks about the visual stuff.

[stuntcow]

I like how they add humor to it even making fun of the crashes. I still find it fun and spend alot of time in it.

[SteamWake]

"Spend most of your time talking about Betty Grable and canned meat" :p

[Bane]

Haw haw! Whoever the chick was that introduced the review seemed totally enthused about the game. :zzz:

[Von Hinten]

Nice review. Somehow they managed to bring the bad news with a lot of humor. I like that very much. :arrgh!:

[Der Graf Von Rudklide]

Funny but unfair - I played ever since release and tons of hours, i never had one singel crash to desktop. I bet this guy played version 1.1 and keept hitting the "A" key. Its not objective at all, and poor game testing indicates the lack of interest in the game.

The intro is very tedious, patroniseing the WWII games, they are bestsellers and by doing that she insults million's of players.

With a bit of mod's installed, is it as good as SH3 and on some points a lot better.

[mookiemookie]

I don't look at these "reviews" as anything more than the views of a twitchy "shoot everything that moves" type of gamer. They obviously aren't really big on simulations or submarines, so asking them to review SH4 is like asking me to review a book on the mating habits of the reef lobster. Take them for what they're worth, and consider the source.

[kverdon]

The only thing I can't fathom is why the Devs / Ubi have not confirmed or denied whether or not the will be a 1.3 patch. Either they are working on a patch and a simple affirmation would go a long ways to calming people down or they have decided that its not going to happen and they can take the heat now and get it over with. :roll:

Kevin

[Iron Budokan]

If I remember correctly they gave Sh3 a 5/5 and intermixed the review with pics of Adam getting boned up the rear by Sean Connery as the skipper from Red October.

Irreverence is their forte. And, no, they don't only review or give good scores to FPSs.

[Avatar]

nobody's mentioned that girl is a babe and a half.

[Cap'n Crabs]

Lol, :rotfl:
They had a way to make CTD's funny stuff. hehe

[Tranton]

nobody's mentioned that girl is a babe and a half.
Yeah she did look pretty good. Personally I prefer the late war version without the all black paint job and the cut down conning tower.

[TheBrauerHour]

nobody's mentioned that girl is a babe and a half.
Yeah she did look pretty good. Personally I prefer the late war version without the all black paint job and the cut down conning tower.

:lol: And to think I was about to post about the female host being a hottie.

:rotfl:

[Deep6]

nobody's mentioned that girl is a babe and a half. Yeah she did look pretty good. Personally I prefer the late war version without the all black paint job and the cut down conning tower.
:lol: And to think I was about to post about the female host being a hottie.

:rotfl:

She had a column in the US version of FHM magazine:dead:.

She was always in a bikini :o. (she did not smile too much, so I was not too :doh: for her)

[Packerton]

I like Silent hunter 3 better because its in the Atlantic, Being a Kaleun is cooler then a Skipper :D

[NefariousKoel]

If I remember correctly they gave Sh3 a 5/5 and intermixed the review with pics of Adam getting boned up the rear by Sean Connery as the skipper from Red October.

Irreverence is their forte. And, no, they don't only review or give good scores to FPSs.
They gave SH3 a 4 out of 5 I'm pretty sure.
That review for SH3 was one of the funniest I've seen them do. I've tried finding the video for it but to no avail. :x

As for what they normally play... well, let's say I've seen more than enough Mario Kart on there.

[Packerton]

Heh I remember the SH3 review (too bad i cant find a video) they made fun of the british so bad.

[Iron Budokan]

Heh I remember the SH3 review (too bad i cant find a video) they made fun of the british so bad.

Yup, they were pretty merciless...

[ccruner13]

what a bunch of chowder heads.

i am pretty sure they reviewed 1.0 because the crew management screen they show has crew with red bars. i know for a fact its not 1.2 and as far as i remember 1.1 wasnt like that? or maybe it was 1.1 that did make it like that...damn i cant remember but

if they are sick of ww2 games its prolly from too many fps and well what do they do...run around shooting **** with their gun like its a fps.

[kakemann]

:up: Great review!

[Packerton]

"Captain were in Jeopardy of loseing our Porn" CRASH lol

[AVGWarhawk]

Did not like the alcohol laden barnicle sailor comments. Basically made a joke out of the genre. Not everyone wants to play car theft games:roll:

[Onkel Neal]

Yeah, that show is more for "entertainment" value than actually reviewing a game (any game). But I do give Adam credit in the middle of his piece for actually listing a lot of features of the game. He covered a lot of ground in a short time. It's clear he was reviewing v1.0 because of the crashes. My first review copy crashed like crazy, so I agree with his portrayal of the crashing. Thanks to the dev team for getting the first essential patch ready fast. Some reviewers have a policy of reviewing the game as released only. I have always had the policy I will review the game with patches, if time permits, and I have done follow ups to reviews to assess the game months/years later if subsequent patches and add-ons came out:

Command Aces of the Deep (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/commandaces.html)
Grey Wolf (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/greywolf.html)
Fast Attack (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/fastattack.html)

My goal is more slanted to giving the player the latest and greatest info on the game, not scoring the developer's results at the time of release. :ping:

Neal

[joea]

:up: Great review!

No it wasn't.

[ReallyDedPoet]

:up: Great review!
No it wasn't.

I agree, X-Play bites. Already posted this, but wanted to say it again:yep:

RDP

[NefariousKoel]

They have some funny reviews on occasion, but this one just showed their complete ignorance at how to play a sub sim. I think almost every attack he was making was on the surface. Note the ignorant amount of destroyers heading at him while he's gunnin' it out on the surfac

[Cowboycop]

If they would have released this game with fewer bugs and some better visuals It would have been Better. I say take SH3 and put SH4's graphics to it And you would have an unstopable killer game!! But instead I get to drop off a spy on Honshu for EVERY SINGLE MISSION OF THE ENTIRE WAR!!!!! :arrgh!:

[santini812]

For those of you that are not familiar with Morgan and Adam' style, I doubt they have ever given a serious review of any game. Satire and humor always at the games and their expense. They will only review games as released, never patched.
Game reviews are rarely longer than 1 to 2 minutes....and they're trying to put out some information along with the jokes, it's TV folks its supposed to be entertaining.

The review was accurate....3 out of 5....hardcore submariners will love. Face it people its a niche game, it ain't gonna out sell God of War II. I personally give it a 3 out of 5, with the hope that it will be fixed and then earn the seldom issued 5 out 5.

[VonBlade]

It's got to be a joke review because the unpatched game isn't worth 1, let alone 3. Patched maybe a 3. Everything working it would be a 6.


I don't understand why people belittle FPS games though. FPS games are the reason that PCs can play games at all. FPS games were at the forefront of pushing hardware along. Without them SH4 would consist solely of the map screen and some paper cutouts. Yes they aren't for everyone (I'm too old and have played too many to be interested any longer), but they aren't solely the province of the labotomy-class gamer.

VB