That was how I felt on SSN too.
RSR is at least well written, even if the Chicago mission is a killfest.
But keep in mind that Clancy had to do with publicized data about soviet subs.
SSN (the novel) is simply boring. Funny is in the novel Cheyenne killed everybody, and in the game I always got killed
SSN (the game) had one mistake..
It was a helmsman's sim, you had to lay rudder and dive planes and maneuvering the sub really took some skill. I never got to periscope depth without broaching
All that stuff is something no sub skipper has to bother about, he simply orders the helmsmen to do that.