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Originally Posted by Rick1984

I guess technically I have three questions...
3) Which is better 4 or 5? To be honest, the appeal of 4's pacific setting thrills me more than 5's north atlantic setting, but 5 looks gorgeous and I'm sure with mods you can fix most if not all of the problems.

As both are on Steam for $9.99 i'm sure i'd get both eventually but...

Also my laptop is BRAND new so if there are any issues with Windows 8 or quad-cores...

As stated before there are difficulty settings you can chose. If you start with auto-targeting and use easy settings, the game is pretty easy.

I can't say anything about SH5, but SH4 is a good game, and can run on Vista/Win7/Win8. Just be sure to get the "Gold Edition" or v1.5 of the game; all the latest mods are made for the 1.5 version. Earlier versions have bugs and will not be very satisfactory.