Originally Posted by Jaeger

I found this sentence from the devs on the ubi forum:


to me, this sounds like they took the old engine with new elements. this gives them more time to think about new features an d more time for beta testing, i think...

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

i think its because its still very early in the process (almost a year from now until release date)

in my opinion (because its the fastest and the least expensive thing to do) they just dumped sh3 data into sh4 game engine to replace all of the fleetboat stuff and then started the process of working out the kinks and making changes to the game itself.

lets give them the benefit of the doubt that they will be going back over it and "premod" the game to make all the needed improvements they can

Originally Posted by maerean_m

You would make a mistake to think that. Basically, there's nothing that was taken from SH3 (which was launched 4 and a half years ago). Everything has been redesigned and things that may look like SH3 (because of the historic background) have been recreated to meet the standards of 2009.