Yeah....I remember SH2 got knocked a lot when it was released in 2001 for all it's imperfections and failings (No wolfpacks, canned campaign). But with Destroyer Command and a lot of dedicated work by modders (like Palindromeria, fer instance) some amazing and fun things were done with it. Currently you certainly couldn't mod SH3 to create something like Pacific Aces. Plus I also loved playing with those funky Italian submarines from the Italian modding community too.