I finally had a chance to play SH3 a few weeks ago in a friend's PC and I felt a bit overwhelmed by the crew management. I guess it's just a matter of getting used to it, and it's probably more realistic, but after playing SS2 AOD and SH1 and SH2 for years, I didn't like it.
The only thing I really enjoyed were the nice graphics and the huge number of ship models available. I wish some of them were ported to SH2 (with a polygon reduction).
So, here I am, still playing with my good old SH2+DC+Pacific Aces

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