If you can get past the dated graphics, SH3 is the best of the bunch- for me it's one of the greatest games of all time.
With the GWX megamod, I had an absolute blast, starting in a II and ending in an XXI, having visited every theater (and then some).
I never really got into SH4.
SH5 - It's beautiful, and it has potential, but it's limited to just VIIs, and for me the difficulty of trying to get the SH3/GWX experience with it was just too taxing, due to design decisions (e.g. they threw out the great, stock Kriegsmarine map from SH3, and replaced it with....something that wasn't that, for some reason. It didn't even include the KM grids, and I had a devil of a time trying to find a compatible mod to fix something so simple).
If you get a physical copy of SH3, make sure it's free of Starforce.
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