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Originally Posted by adrians69
How good is Aces of the Deep?
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The Good: It came with a fully dynamic campaign that allowed you to start just after the beginning of the war (October 1939) and progress from a Type II u-boat to a Type XXI.
It had a nightclub you could visit to pick up the latest scuttlebutt (just like in Das Boot), and it wasn't always accurate.
The gameplay is still better than anything that's come out since. I've had escorts follow my like bloodhounds, but I've also had the opposite. One of my favorite moments came early in the war when a destroyer charged toward my position, ran right above me at full speed and then slowed down and started dropping depth charges about a mile beyond my position. I've never had anything like that happen to me in any other game.
The damage control is still the most realistic there is. In the damage control screen you see a picture of the boat's interior. Clicking on it does nothing. If you get damaged and go to the screen the damaged area will be circled. Clicking on the circled area will give you a screen showing the LI's report, including an
estimated repair time, which isn't always accurate.
You could call in and request a change of patrol grid.
Every so often you would be offered a newer boat. You didn't have to take it.
When you did something great, or when you died, you would see a newspaper headline describing the event.
You occasionally get a report of a convoy departing some port, usually one far away from where you're at.
Working time compression that went up to 4096 times normal speed, and dropped you back into real time the instant anything was spotted.
The Bad: You didn't have a choice of which flotilla to start in, or what type of boat you wanted to start in.
The campaign allowed starting at certain periods of the war, but not month-by-month.
Of course the sound and the graphics are extremely dated. That doesn't bother me most of the time, but one of my great pleasures in SH3 has been sailing in and out of the harbors with dozens of ships coming and going, and just enjoying the sights.
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and is it still available anywhere do you know?
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Only very rarely, for a very high price, and with no guarantee it will even run on modern systems.