[CapnScurvy]

I've had the June PCGamer issue sitting on my nightstand for a week now, unopened, until I noticed today the front cover states a "Silent Hunter 5 review" enclosed. I tore into the cellophane and turned to page 68, dropping my eyes down to the game rating area labeled "Verdict" and found (not surprisingly) a 55 out of 100 for the overall score for the game!! A 55!! That's on par with such block buster games as "Who wants to be a Millionaire, 3rd Edition" at 55, or "Beavis and Butt-Head: Bunghole in One" a 53. PCGamer's rating system states a game rating between 50-59% is "Merely Okay", "Very ordinary games. They're not completely worthless, but you can definitely find numerous better choices".

The specific review starts "No point in sugarcoating it: SH5, Ubisoft Romania's third crack at the Silent Hunter submarine sim franchise, is a dud"

A DUD !!

As in, "What the heck is wrong with these torpedos"? DUD!!

I've not bought SH5, nor do I plan to. I'll not pay for the right to become frustrated over the numerous problems this franchise has brought to the submarine simulation community. I remember looking back on SH4's first release and remember scratching my head over an American sub simulation using only the metric system for the games measurements!?! It's like, What kind of game company puts out a product that misses so badly a fundamental issue as to what kind of measurements did the American sailor use? And by the way, we don't call it, nor use, "the Imperial system". That's a "European thing", not ours!!!! Anyway, I digress!!

The point is this company has sold us a boat load of crap, again! The only folks that benefit are those counting the money. I paid for the U-Boat Missions Add-on, to put the "Nazi's in the Pacific" (sounds like the 1940's Tarzan movie I remember when the Nazi's showed up deep in the Congo looking for gold, putting Cheata and Jane in peril!!) but I won't do it again.
In my opinion, the only way to push the genre forward is to let this franchise dry up on the vine. Either Ubisoft realises it's folly and makes a new start or they fade away allowing a different company to take the submarine simulation genre down a different path. I really don't care which way the wind blows this ship, I just know the port of "Ubisoft' need not be entered again as it stands now.