ANNOUNCEMENT: SILENT HUNTER 5.1 for XBOX (April Fool joke)

[Subsim Monitor]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/03/navalassaultmain.jpg

You're probably sitting around watching a rerun of The Hunt for Red October on cable right now, wondering aloud, "When are we going to see another decent submarine game?" You're even practicing your Sean Connery accent, which is good because, come this June, you'll have a chance to use it. 505 Games, who recently wowed us with both Backbreaker and Naughty Bear, are releasing Silent Hunter 5.1 on June 15 exclusively on the Xbox 360, just in time for a Submarine Summer.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/03/navalassault03.jpg

The game is "arcade style" according to the press release, meaning you Silent Hunter fans aren't going to get all the realism you want. Instead you'll have to settle for the historically accurate naval warzones of WWII and " an arsenal of faithfully recreated U.S. Naval submarines." Those subs will be armed with torpedoes and a deck gun, the better to take out enemy subs, ships, and planes. Though there aren't any in the gallery below, this game had better involve some periscopes ... or else.


Gamers can play through the 30 solo missions after they launch from New York, or join three other players online for some multiplayer action.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/03/navalassault05.jpg




Welcome to the new reality! (http://xbox.joystiq.com/2010/03/31/submerge-yourself-into-naval-assault-the-killing-tide/)

[captainprid]

Is this another April fools joke?? Because it has gone 12 o'clock so they don't count anymore!!!

[Decoman]

The water splash on that second picture looks nice I think.

[Sekure]

:haha: :har: :haha: :yeah:

I just used my bookmark to return here and saw the Xbox Gamer Den headers with the new colors and I was :o ruh roh... I double checked the URL and was :06: I quickly scanned the subsections and then....

:haha: :har: :haha: :har:

Great work! :woot: :D

[Bilge_Rat]

Kooolz...:rock::rock:

[Faamecanic]

ROFLMAO..... :yeah: Almost had me there.

[Nordmann]

Is this another April fools joke?? Because it has gone 12 o'clock so they don't count anymore!!!

I've done some digging, and this does indeed appear to be real (unfortunately). Though it's definitely not a Silent Hunter game.

[Sonarman]

I've done some digging, and this does indeed appear to be real (unfortunately). Though it's definitely not a Silent Hunter game.


Yes indeed here is Gamespot's preview (http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/sim/navalassault/news.html?sid=6254489) Inteesting to note that it comes from Artech who developed the original "Das Boot" arcadey PC subsim many moons ago!

Take a look at the titles they have developed over the years (http://www.artechstudios.com/games/game01/) right back to the C64 era great to see they have survived this long and still have the same guys at the top

[Fozzy22]

OMG :o :nope:

And here i was thinking it was another funny April fools joke. :dead: Good luck to them, but i doubt it will work.

[Ali Fish]

http://www.eurogamer.net/gallery.php?game_id=13060&article_id=1027704

[THE_MASK]

Haha , ok now i get the xbox theme .

[Ali Fish]

If this sells in anway shape or form. guaranteed ubisoft will jump ship. lol

[oscar19681]

I,m buying this! NO ****! In fact i,m returning sh-5 to get a refund and buy this instead!

[IanC]

I,m buying this! NO ****! In fact i,m returning sh-5 to get a refund and buy this instead!

I'm not even sure if you're joking :haha:

[Egan]

Lol....it's not an April Fools? Really? Superb!

To Paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke: "I don't know what format Silent Hunter 6 will be on, but Silent Hunter 7 will be a console exclusive."

PS: Am I the only one who likes the crappy green font? I think it's ace.

[Egan]

Best bit:

....who recently wowed us with both Backbreaker and Naughty Bear, are releasing Silent Hunter 5.1 ....


:yeah::haha:

[RSColonel_131st]

LOL,the Eurogamer screenshots are awesome. Like the Type VII Conning Tower with American Flag, and the surface-swimming torpedo.

[ZeInfidel]

The game will be DRM-free,so all anti-DRM crusaders can enjoy it,to the full:rotfl2:

[Bilge_Rat]

A lot of posters were hoping a new developper would produce a subsim to compete with Ubisoft. There you go: "Naval Assault: The Killing Time". DRM free also...enjoy..:rotfl2::rotfl2:


p.s. goood one ZeInfidel.

[tommyk]

roxx! :har: :har: :har:

[OakGroove]

Awesome!!! Can't Wait!!! :har:

[JustinReg]

I would like this to be a good cross or arcade and realism a bit like the Battlestation's games but it looks pure arcade. American type VII subs in the Atlantic and surface skimming torps don't exactly fill me with confidence.

505 games did bring the pretty good IL2 Sturmovik to the Xbox last year. The problem was multiplayer was pretty broken and they refused to patch it. For that reason I could not see me buying another game published by 505 games anyway.

[Corvette]

505 games did bring the pretty good IL2 Sturmovik to the Xbox last year. The problem was multiplayer was pretty broken and they refused to patch it. For that reason I could not see me buying another game published by 505 games anyway.

The patch for the XBox was produced, but as you say 505 games decided not to send it to M$. Very annoying, as the PS3 did get that patch equivalent.

Thus a 'no sale' from me as well.

[SteamWake]

Will this run on an I pad? :yep:

[Wilcke]

PS3 RULEZ

Little Big Planet!

[Iron Budokan]

Lol, good one. :haha:

[Commie]

I like how the 'health bar'(sub?) is a Los Angeles SSN! ROFL!

[scrapser]

Everyone is laughing and that's great. I hate to rain on the parade but I wonder what this will mean for PC sub sims if a console sub sim is an enormous hit and sells like hotcakes? Will Ubisoft just cut to the chase?

[frau kaleun]

Will this run on an I pad? :yep:

That reminds me, I need to stop at the drugstore before Tuesday.

[The Enigma]

Will this run on an I pad? :yep:

Nah, I think it will run on my dust collecting PS2 :salute:

[The Enigma]

I wonder why the OP is named "Subsim Admin Guest" :hmmm:

[Sonarman]

Everyone is laughing and that's great. I hate to rain on the parade but I wonder what this will mean for PC sub sims if a console sub sim is an enormous hit and sells like hotcakes? Will Ubisoft just cut to the chase?


It could also go the other way, Artech now have some of the elements of a naval sim here however arcadey in this XBox implementation, although they developed the rather cheesy sim-lite "Das Boot" PC VGA game they also developed Megafortress for 360 Pacific which was fairly hardcore and a good game, so who knows maybe they could take this and turn it into a PC sim as a challenger to Ubisoft?

[ERPP8]

Not buying it.
Never buying a console game ever again.
I prefer PC games

[KING111]

does it use DRM:har::har:

[frau kaleun]

does it use DRM:har::har:

In Silent Hunter 5.1, DRM use YOU!

[MoN]

In Silent Hunter 5.1, DRM use YOU!

:har:

also:

In Silent Hunter 5.1, torpedoes are DLC.

[Jimbuna]

does it use DRM:har::har:

Only intermittently :03:

[JustinReg]

The patch for the XBox was produced, but as you say 505 games decided not to send it to M$. Very annoying, as the PS3 did get that patch equivalent.

Thus a 'no sale' from me as well.


We only have Anton's word for that, the same Anton that told us that a patch containing German cockpits would be released soon after the game shipped. That was bull, I don't really believe anything he says.

It does not cost anything for the first title update to be certified by MS, if the devs had really made an Xbox patch there is no reason why they would not have sent it to be certified.

This is why 505 games told Anton to stop posting on the forums imo, he was telling too many lies. Doing everything to make the devs look good at 505 games expense. But after all it was the devs that made a game with impossible multiplayer goals, I blame them. They obviously never tested the online components of the game or they would have realised that and spotted that fact that shooting someone down would rarely credit a kill.

It was a shame, IL S on the Xbox had the makings of an excellent game, and I say that as an oldskool hardcore PC sim gamer.

( I go by the name of 'Yossarian' over on the IL S forums)

[chrysanthos]

aw come on guys honest now....what game is this i never seen it before and for what platform?