Just reading about it there are some things that interest me about IV (the list that Ducimus made for instance), and I might buy it if I ever supe up my PC.
But I don't like hearing about all the bugs. If anything when you are doing a franchise there should be LESS bugs with each installment.
I get the sense that someone at UBI looked at their projected profit margin and decided they needed an influx of cash so they released a game that wasn't ready.
(Maybe the thinking that people would do the work themselves to fix everything for free
)
That puts me off a bit.
And for what it's worth I saw Das Boot after I started playing SHIII (besides seeing it 20 years prior that is).
When Mike Myers called the History Channel the World War II channel in Wayne's World he wasn't kidding. And most of the shows are about the Nazis. Americans seem obsessed with Germany in WWII (Ha - as I type this an ad just came on PBS for Hitler's Sunken Secret).