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Originally Posted by Miggy4000
I just ordered SH V from Amazon yesterday, so I cant comment on it yet, but I have to say that I am really enjoying SH III (with mods) at the moment. I have played a bit of SH IV and that is a good game, no doubt about it, but so far SH III gets my vote every time. I cant quite put my finger on why that is, and from what I have read in this thread, I dont think the arrival of SH V will change that view for me  |
What SH3 has is seven years of constant modding. It got lots of good mods right from the start, and they've only gotten better. No other version has such fully detailed harbors. No other version has convoys escorted by blimps. SH4 has a better crew management system, and other improvements, but no one has added in all the cool stuff you find in SH3.
SH3 Commander is another plus, giving a career like no other game ever has. Every ship you sink gets a name, cargo and crew numbers, and your captain's life is fleshed out in a special way. There is a massive increase in the amount of crew names available. You have crew rotated in and out, or even killed in non-sub-related ways. No other version has anything that comes close. Of course it looks primitive by today's standards, but it has so many other cool things that we are willing to ignore the somewhat dated graphics. Until someone adds all that into SH4, SH3 still gets my vote as well.
SH5, on the other hand, still needs to have the Type II and Type IX u-boats before I could even begin to consider it as more than a pretty diversion. It also still has less than ten different merchant types, as opposed to the more than one hundred available with SH3.