As someone relatively new to both SHIII and SHIV, I have to say that the lack of the ability to interact with the crew was the very first thing I noticed. Why? Because in that first training mission you load into the command center. And nobody there responds to you except that one officer with the evil gleam in his eye and that's only to confirm your orders (a pity I can only barely hear what any of the crew says). So you try messing around with controls. But none of them respond. In some ways I wish I hadn't picked up SHIII first to practice my submarining because if I hadn't I wouldn't know what I was missing!
But judging from that alone is pretty shallow and there's alot to like in SHIV. Maybe, if this game is based on the same engine as SHIII, there are hooks in there for animated and responsive crewmen? Might this not be something modders could correct? At the very least Ubi should pry open the old code-hooks so modders can get in there and give it a shot if they haven't already.
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