Got the game and.....

most of the screenshots i have seen didnt have the nice "real environments" type water colors, can you say if thats just a video card thing or is it not as pretty as the UBI videos when your actually in the game?

[AVGWarhawk]

I would say what UBI posted for videos is quite close to what the game looks like. The explosions and fire are done extremely well IMO. The smoke is black and thick. It does not drag my system down. As far as explosions they look like SH4 but better and there seems to be secondary spark like explosions as well. Personally I do not see any part of that needing to be modded. The water is similar to SH4 but the water action itself is much more realistic. However under heavy weather and fog the water does that jiggling again. White water around the sub looks ingame as it does on UBI videos. Bow splash remains the same as we have seen in previous games. I do like the water droplets on the scope and binoc lenses. Much more realistic than SH4 rendering. I would have to say hands down that the graphics in SH5 are superior to any we have seen before. Kudos on that developers! UI, again, is not that bad once you get used to it but there is a lot of point and click. Perhaps some more work on the keyboard commands and just the mouse for moving around and use of the peri/binocs only. I see modders are already making new keyboard commands so I wait to see where that goes. So far I like the game.