After a week or so trying HARD to like the game, I shelved it yesterday. The state it's been released in is honestly shameful, and confirms Ubisoft on par with Activision as the worst gaming publisher around in my personal list (have to admit that the stupidly new-age E3 conference with very little real gaming and a lot of gimmicks contributed a lot).
I've spent three full days of complete and emarassing frustration combing the mediterranean for task forces that simply weren't there, or at least gave me no signal of their existance, bored to death by finding an endless supply of useless dido and kent cruisers.
The game plays nicely mostly, and some features are good, but the campaign doesn't feel dynamic at all. It lacks any kind of variety, with absolutely no neutral shipping around. Hell, i'm at war with france and russia, and there's a campaign to stop resupply of russian ports, but there's absolutely no french and russian ships, not even in french and russian ports.
Way to release an incomplete game.
I'll probably come back to the game in six months or so, hoping that the modders won't lose their enthusiasm like I did, and will make something akin to GWX. But at the moment the fun just isn't there.
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