SimHQ Reviews SH5

[LukeFF]

http://www.simhq.com/_naval/naval_036a.html

http://www.simhq.com/_commentary/all_099a.html

[There] are some serious problems that badly need to be resolved. The game is currently a buggy nightmare in some critical areas. Certainly there are bugs with all games, and some are forgivable, but some of the bugs in Silent Hunter 5 are near showstoppers. There are already some mods released that will correct some of the deficiencies in the game, but the fact that the second patch — the one that is supposed to correct many of these problems — is delayed once again means players that bought the game in good faith are still waiting for fixes that shouldn’t have been in the gold release.

[Feuer Frei!]

Actually one of the better reviews i've read re the game.
Nothing new of course in that review.

[daft]

I take it that the phrase "bought it in good faith" actually means "decided to throw all personal responsibility out the window and decided to not do ANY research on the title whatsoever in order to find out if SHV actually lives up to the consumers hopes and expectations". I really don't think that argument holds water in this day and age. I could understand it in the pre-internet age when you couldn't be arsed to wait for the magazine reviews, but now we have internet and opinions and reviews are generally out before the games are released. I have no issue at all with people taking issue with the quality of the game and complaining about that to Ubi directly, but it really isn't a very well kept secret that SHV has bugs and it haven't beem since the game came out.

[Bilge_Rat]

very even handed review:

Boy, is this a hard game to not recommend. Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic is one of the more in-depth (no pun intended) games currently out there. The game play is good. The graphics are very well done. The campaign is outstanding. Simply put, this is one of the better one-two-three punches in the gameplay world.

I tried SH4 again yesterday, but I just can't get into it anymore with its clunky interface and controls, there is something about SH5 that keeps drawing me back to it. If Ubi gets its act together, SH5 will be the best in the series.

[mookiemookie]

Clearly someone who has spent time with the game. Very nice review.

[raymond6751]

I believe that SH5 is not seriously flawed. It just doesn't meet with the expectations of the subsim community.

It is true that there are many irritations, things missing, and incorrectly presented. The game does not CTD in my experience.

The modders are fixing cosmetic things and adding missing things that we had in earlier versions. In fact, they are re-enabling them since the game retains much of the file system of SH4. SH4 itself retained much of SH3.

The tragedy is that SH5 wasn't what anyone expected. UBI went right ahead making a game that neither retained the best of the SH3/4 games nor added much of the hoped-for features.

I'd be interested in hearing what new players (never played SH3 or 4) think of the game.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Clearly someone who has spent time with the game. Very nice review.

Absolutely.