Silent Hunter 3 4 5 ?

[Sailor Steve]

SH3 still has the best combination of overall gameplay and feel.

SH4 is much better graphically and has some good improvements over SH3, and modders have made it much better, but still lacking a lot of SH3 mods' little details it desparately needs.

SH5 is still better in the graphics department, and adds a lot of graphic detail, but has disappointed many with things that should have been fixed but weren't, some things that were actually made worse, and things that were basically wrong turns in the development department. Many players love it, many hate it, and some say "It's okay, but..."

So the choice really is yours to make, as all of them have great points, and all three have bad points.

Originally Posted by maillemaker

I remember the old Silent Service! Man that was some cutting edge stuff at the time!

AOTD and SH1 were vast improvements, having a full random campaign that allowed you to start anytime during the war.

I've only every played SH3, so I can't comment on 4 and 5.

Then you're missing out on a lot of improvements that SH3 can't compete with. On the other hand, SH3 has campaign features that still haven't been fixed in the others.

The things that I have heard about 5 that annoy me are:

1) War ends in 1943

Partly fixed by a great mod. Still needs some improvement, and it's getting there.

2) Lack of submarine classes

But full-blown models of all Type VII sub-variants, with animated crew and full walk-around, which is why they couldn't do the other types. Frustrating for me, but they had their reasons. It's a trade-off that some like and some don't.

3) Phone-home DRM at start-up

Better than what they started with, which was a full-time online requirement. That's the only reason I didn't buy it at the start, and still won't.