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30 of 31 found the following review helpful:
 6 Stars out of 5 Feb 06, 2009
By John Kane
SH3 is the best Sub sim ever. Just keep in mind that because it is realistic, it can also be frustrating at times if you used all your torpedoes and only sink 1 ship. There are also times (ie: in the English Channel) when its best to stay submerged at 3 knots and use silent running when 3 destroyers and a couple of cutters are searching for you. Once the enemies warships spot you they are relentless. You can literally spend hours just crawling along, even this part is fun until you get sunk that is. :(
The game realism settings can be turned on or off but its definitely more fun do the targeting manually. It takes a few missions to get the hang of it. The manual is of great help(its located on the disk.)
As far as SH2, graphics are important to me and the SH2 graphics are outdated for sure, but SH3 looks great except for the trees. The water looks very realistic, especially when the seas are rough.
Here is a tip for customizing the map time compression options in SH3 to your tastes.
You can edit the time compression by opening the document named main.cfg -This is located in the SH3/data/cfg folder that the game places in your documents folder(the same place where the game saves are found. This file can be opened with notepad or word document, just be sure to uncheck the box that says 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.' Its also a good idea to copy this file to a different location before editing in case you need to restore the original later. In order to set the enemy contact to real time you would change the value under [Time Compression] EnemyDetected=8 to EnemyDetected=1
I also changed the maximum from 1024 to 2048 for moving around the map faster. Then I changed CharacterAnim to =2 as the default was something like 32 and was making me seasick to watch.
Changing AirEnemyDetected=1 to AirEnemyDetected=0 will make the game pause whenever an enemy plane spots you. You won't see the default message saying that a plane has been spotting as the game will just pause. You could do this for enemy contact as well if desired. This is nice if you leave your game run to make a quick soda or sandwich run.
UPDATE: When I first started doing campaign missions. I only averaged 1 and 1/2 ships sunk per mission using 100% realism settings and manual targeting. After learning interception techniques and Fast 90 attacks form a subsim forum, I averaged 7.5 ships sunk per mission. So its worth your time to check out one of these forums if your new to Subsims as I was. There was a bit of a frustration factor in learning this game but it has layers of depth to it that make it rewarding once you have it down.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Know what I'm talking about Oct 28, 2010
By FALCON
Haveing played SH-3 since it's release in 2005 I unlike above reviewers I know what I'm talking about.
This version of SH-3 not only has Starforce REMOVED it's, PREPATCHED to ver. 1.4.
This will install on Windows7 64bit without any error messages or other garbage.
The early versions won't install in Win7 64bit Which make $10.00 a steal.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Great Submarine Action Dec 01, 2008
By Bernard Clemmons III
"Soldier369"
Silent Hunter three is the zenith of WWII U-baot submarine simulations and with this bundle you get the venerable predecessor as well. A great buy for the price.
19 of 24 found the following review helpful:
No Starforce Sep 24, 2008
By kylania
This version does not include the Starforce DVD nagware that other versions of Silent Hunter III came with. Well worth it if only for that!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Silent Hunter 2 and 3 Mar 13, 2011
By Dale O'Kray
I really enjoy this game. Easy to play and time can get away on you when playing. For the price of the game, you cannot go wrong.
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