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Preview: Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic
Posted on: 2010-02-25 18:28:52 Das Sims By Neal Stevens @ SubSim There was a scene in Das Boot where...oh hell, this preview is coming just two weeks before the game is going to be released, no time for prosy openings. Normally I would be writing this preview a few months before release day, but Ubisoft has been shielding this game carefully. The devs demo'ed Silent Hunter 5 in September at the Copenhagen Subsim meet, but since then, there's been a total blackout of information. It took a mighty effort to get details about the most basic elements, but since our phone interview in Jan, followed by the revelation of a DRM scheme that many players object to, there's almost nothing about the game left to guess about except: will it be any good? That question will have to wait a few weeks for the review to answer. But for now, I can shed some light on the overall scope of the game, and many of the elements created by Ubisoft Romania looking to achieve a Das Boot experience. Read on... |