I don't mean to say this game is poor or anything. I certainly have recieved my $40 worth plus much more.
It is worthwhile to note that if one goes back to the dev questionairres posted prior to launch there is a lot of content they mentioned that isn't here.
Over all a good sim, however for me, do to the pre-release hype it failed the expectation gap set for it. Considering the competition (none) I'm glad I purchased it, and will purchase SH IV when I see it.
I noted the complaints about the IXD2 reload issue, and the XXI battery recharge issue mid Julybut do to the fact that I was diligently playing a career from 39 on, and am frequently out of town so it took me a great deal of time to earn my IXD2 and realize the bug in fact existed.
I am an information systems auditor here in the US and frequently work with IT professionals evaluating their chnge management procedures(AI 6 for those of you familiar with COBIT), thus as far as I can tell these bugs were either:
A)not noticed, implying during testing these subs were not tested in campaign games.
or B) It was noted and a decision was made not to fix it.
Both are quite a bit disturbing to me as a consumer. I don't blame the community test team...as I wasn't even aware there was one.
I will work with what I'm given and SHIII fits the bill quite nicely under most conditions.
Naf
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