To be honest, stock SH3 gripped me right away. The graphics were pretty awesome, and it was the first U-boot game I had ever had the urge to play. Granted I knew very little about subs back then, and might have been happy within my ignorance. But I got addicted to it from the get go, and the subsequent mods, and my eventual participation in them kept me hooked. Looking forward to SH4 more than ever now. from what I've gathered so far, it looks to be far more playable than stock SH3 was. It seems they have fixed what was the biggest problem in SH3... lifelessness. Stock SH3 was flat and dry. With SH4 the've livend up the graphics, livened up the game worls with little men, lifeboats and traffic, and most importantly, made this interact with the radio. Bottom line... Stock SH4 looks to be at least as enjoyable as a heavily supermodded SH3, plus it has stuff we just couldn't do. The fact that they've designed it to be moddable is even better.
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