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Old 11-17-08, 05:18 PM   #5
Onkel Neal
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Originally Posted by Raptor1
Shells of Fury!
No, sorry, it's not... wait, yeah, it is! At last, the WWI subsim with the crazy name...

Shells of Fury!


From the review by the highly esteemed Mr. Horsa:

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Gamers scream for realism, but sales are driven by graphics. In that respect SOF will disappoint. It’s no SH3/4. In fact it’s so reminiscent of their predecessor SH2, that there were some (unfounded) suggestions that it had used the same game engine. On first sight the sea looks awful, but like a lot of these things you soon get used to its own peculiar atmosphere and I have to say I found myself feeling this really was the North Sea or the Atlantic. The dark dank misty atmosphere is well done, and there is a good representation of fog banks and bow spray (albeit done fairly crudely). Personally I don’t believe that raw graphic power always equates to better atmosphere. Sometimes graphic representation can be too literal and can simply serve to remind you that it is a computer simulation – something I feel with SH3/4 from time to time. With SOF you feel you are crashing about in a lot of unfriendly wetness even if it sometimes has a comic book feel to it.

How about that? 38 Mystery Subsims and still no repeats. And there won't be any repeats until after MS#50.... so that should help you narrow down the next 12. Process of elimination, and all. Possibly some intuitiveness, and even some savvy.

Enough dawdling! Mystery Subsim #39 is just over the horizon!

Neal




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Mystery Subsim winners
The following people have won a Mystery Subsim challenge and have had their name added to the prize pool.

11/1 MS#1 - Mikekiller16 - Sub Battle
11/1 MS#2 - Fincuan - Wolfpack
11/1 MS#3 - Nisgeis - 688 Attack Sub
11/1 MS#4 - Mookie - Silent Service II
11/2 MS#5 - Contact - Steel Tide
11/2 MS#6 - To be - Destroyer Command
11/3 MS#7 - Fincuan - Enigma: Rising Tide
11/3 MS#8 - Molon Labe - Sub Command
11/4 MS#9 - Subnuts - Grey Wolf: Hunter of the North Atlantic
11/4 MS#10 - Subnuts - Iron Wolves
11/5 MS#11 - Danlissa - Navy Ops Warship Gunner
11/5 MS#12 - Fincuan - Silent Hunter II
11/6 MS#13 - gandalf71 - Pacific Aces
11/6 MS#14 -gandalf71 - Fighting Steel
11/6 MS#15 - SandyCaesar - Ship Hunt
11/7 MS#16 - Fincuan - Lost Admiral Returns
11/7 MS#17 - Subnuts - Danger from the Deep
11/8 MS#18 - D'biter - Tom Clancy's SSN
11/8 MS#19 - Subnuts - Salvo!
11/9 MS#20 - Subnuts - Command Aces of the Deep
11/9 MS#21 - MBot - Fast Attack
11/10 MS#22 - Subnuts - Silent Steel
11/10 MS#23 - Subnuts - Pacific Storm
11/11 MS#24 - Bort - Silent Hunter
11/11 MS#25 - ekempey - Dangerous Waters
11/11 MS#26 - Subnuts - Raging Thunder
11/12 MS#27 - Fincuan - Sea Dragon
11/12 MS#28 - Subnuts - Harpoon 4
11/13 MS#29 - Fincuan - SSN-21 Seawolf
11/13 MS#30 - Dowly - Akula: Red Hunter
11/14 MS#31 - Mikhayl - Das Boot
11/14 MS#32 - Subnuts - Battleship Chess
11/15 MS#33 - Subnuts - Battlestations: Pacific
11/16 MS#34 - Subnuts - Gato
11/16 MS#35 - Subnuts - Silent Hunter III
11/17 MS#36 - Hunter ICX - Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales
11/17 MS#37 - Seeadler - Deep Six
11/17 MS#38 - Raptor1 - Shells of Fury


Mystery Subsim Challenge Winner totals to date
Subnuts - 13 - IRON CROSS
Fincuan - 6 - Ace
gandalf71 - 2
Bort - 1
Contact - 1
Danlissa - 1
D'biter 1
Dowly - 1
ekempey - 1
HunterICX - 1
Mbot - 1
Mikekiller16 - 1
Mikhayl - 1
Molon Labe - 1
Mookie Mookie - 1
Nisgeis - 1
SandyCaesar - 1
To be - 1
Raptor1 - 1




Wrong Guess Count
FIREWALL - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you.
gandalf71 - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you.
Red Heat - 3 You are lost at sea, out of the contest, no more guesses for you.
Captain Vlad - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
Herr_Pete 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
kiwi_2005 - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
Letum - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
Mikekiller16 - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
Molon Labe - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
Raptor1 - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
Rhodes - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
rifleman13 - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
SmithN23 - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
SteamWake - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
SteveW1 - 2 (one more wrong guess and you're out)
danlisa - 1
Dowly - 1
Fincuan - 1
flareo - 1
Graf Paper - 1
I-25 - 1
John Channing - 1
LobsterBoy - 1
Marcantilan - 1
Mikhayl - 1
mookiemookie - 1
nikimcbee - 1
Nikita - 1
Oberon - 1
Philipp_Thomsen - 1
Phoenix3000 1
robbierob2005 - 1
SandyCaesar - 1
Schultzy - 1
Stealth Hunter - 1
Subnuts - 1
TLAM Strike - 1
XabbaRus - 1
Zachstar - 1

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