IGN's Silent Hunter 5 Review

[Onkel Neal]

I like subsims, even ones with problems.

[HundertzehnGustav]

you're almost able to forget

lol... almost only, ablo to forget the things the game does wrong.
LOLz

[elanaiba]

I find the review ok but...

Instead of the open-ended campaign in previous versions, Silent Hunter 5 makes use of a scripted campaign that focuses the player on specific objectives.

I give up...

Open Ended? SH3? SH4?

Scripted? SH5?

[alexradu89]

All I can say is: OWNED!

[HundertzehnGustav]

open ended maybe more in the sense of
"do what you want to do , where you wanna do it, How you wanna do it as long as you wanna do it, how you see fit"

[elanaiba]

Yeah, and the same is true for SH5.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by elanaiba

Yeah, and the same is true for SH5.

While you're here, may I hijack the thread for a question I didn't get a real answer to on it's own thread; Do you have to do the missions to progress to new ports, for example, the Mediterranean port? How about the french ports? Am I automatically moved to one when France falls or do I have to achieve a certain objective first?

[elanaiba]

You don't HAVE to do anything and history will progress.

Of course if you do something worse than your historical counterparts (Artic convoys comes to mind) then you may see some developments not taking place.

[AngusJS]

Originally Posted by HundertzehnGustav

open ended maybe more in the sense of
"do what you want to do , where you wanna do it, How you wanna do it as long as you wanna do it, how you see fit"

But given how much we hates scripted campaigns, using "scripted" to describe SH5 when it is not was irresponsible.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by AngusJS

But given how much we hates scripted campaigns, using "scripted" to describe SH5 when it is not was irresponsible.

Not disagreeing with you, and not defending Steve, but what I think he meant was, the career has a branching map, where you have several career path options, and there are more objectives presented to the player than simply, "go to grid AM43" and sink whatever you can. I think "scripted" was a poor choice of words to describe the changes to the campaign.

[elanaiba]

The thing is we took the campaign of SH3/4 and built on top of it (strategic goals, branching strategic paths, etc) and suddenly people assume its no longer dynamic...

SH5's campaign/map is unfinished but clearly, for my next project - if any, if ever - I need to rethink some of this stuff and the way its presented to the player.

[stellaferox]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I like subsims, even ones with problems.

I like problems, even when presented as subsim.....