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Silent Hunter 5 (PC DVD) |  | From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 1254
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: historical-strategy-games
ESRB: Rating Pending
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 3307211695436
EAN: 3307211695436
Release Date: March 5, 2010
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Internet connection is required to play game. Step behind the periscope of a German U-boat and take on the Allied Forces in famous battles across the vast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
The best-selling submarine series of all time continues with the highly anticipated Silent Hunter: Battle of the Atlantic. For the first time, you can live the life of a submarine captain from a first-person view as you lead your crew in a truly dynamic campaign. Minimum System Requirements: Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core2Duo e4400 or AMD Athlon 64 x2 4000
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 52
 done to death again July 30, 2010
History Jack
well, I've played the whole silent hunter series and you've got to change the format. how many more times can you flog the WW 2 sub simulation, even for me a die hard WW 2 aficionado its getting boring. whats next, silent hunter 6 battle for the mediterranean again.
Take a leaf out of activision's book with call of duty and up-date to the modern warfare era or at least the cold war.
Hint for Ubisoft CEO, some of the best selling sim/first person games over the last few years...... ARMA 2, BATTLEFIELD 2, LOCK ON, CALL OF DUTY 4 and MODERN WARFARE 2, DSC BLACK SHARK, the new release MEDAL OF HONOUR, they are all modern and they all sell. it's not rocket science Ubisoft.
Great look, rubbish game July 23, 2010
WW2 History Buff (United Kingdom)
Looks Great! Just a shame the game play is total rubbish, your better off buying Silent Hunter 3 and get hold of the free super mod GWX 3.0 Gold for a real realistic feel. I could write a book on how SH5 was a let down a big let down.
Utter Non-starting Disaster June 25, 2010
J. Morgan-evans (London, UK)
What a dissapointment. After really enjoying Silent Hunter's previous incarnations (especially 4), we arrive at this mess. This game loads up but freezes when you try to play a game. This is because Ubisoft have decided to set up the game so that it must be connected to their servers when you play (single or multi). Not a bad idea to beat piracy you may think, but the problem is that there are issues with the servers which mean that huge numbers of people can't play the game. I spent two days trying to get it to run and just gave up and returned it. Luckily, Amazon refunded the money with no argument (as they always do). Ubisoft also seem to have implimented this on some of their other games, as my downloaded copy of SH3 does the same thing. My advice? Avoid any Ubisoft games until they sort this mess out.
A fatal drop in quality from its predesessors. June 1, 2010
S. Plume (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've been a fan of Silent Hunter since the first one. I've loved every one before 5, and assumed the same for 5. I was wrong. I'll get the positives in first, because it will be easier. I would also like to point out that I have only played the tutorial mission so far (and probably won't get much further any time soon).
One thing I like about this game is the vastly improved graphics. Another thing I like is the ability to walk around your sub. The graphics and the free roam feature make it really nice to have a wander around and explore your U Boat. I would love to do that while being barraged with depth charges, but like I said, I haven't got that far into the game.
Thats about it. Now onto the cons...
Following on from the positive note I made about graphics, that also comes with a devastating performance hit. My computer isn't the fastest in the world, I'll admit that, but the frame rate and mouse lag really does make this game VERY difficult to play. If you have a mid-range computer, I would steer clear. I can play Silent Hunter 4 on nearly full settings, yet SH5 struggles to run on the lowest settings. I'm all for graphical improvement, however the improvement in visuals from SH4 does not make up for the dreadful performance.
I will also point out how rubbish I am, but saying that automatic targetting is gone. I ran out of torpedoes before I realised this, and that you have to manually aim all of your torpedoes (all be it at a more dumbed down level to the "Manual TDC" in previous games). No mention of this in the tutorial, which annoyed me a little bit.
Speaking of the tutorial, it wasn't very good either. Very short and sweet and without much explaination at all. I got to one stage where it was telling me about time compression controls, however there was no HUD interface for them, like the tooltip kept trying to convince me. This may sound petty, or I may have missed something, but it all seemed very "knocked together".
Moving onto time compression, I was innocently sailing back to my home port at an accelerated time (I couldn't possibly tell you what, thanks to the lack of interface). Whether it was a game fault, or the performance (sort of also the games fault), as my ship was getting closer to port, the game suddenly froze for about 20-30 seconds, before teleporting me from the map to my bridge which was flooded with water. Turns out my sub had collided with another ship while I was routinely sailing home. These were friendly ships in friendly waters. The game had failed to slow the game down, or even provide notification that I was about to crash into a merchant.
Worst of all, there is the DRM virus. Not technically a computer virus, per se, but Ubisoft have, like many before, gone OTT with protection, which I never expected after they dropped starforce a few years back (which I still wont play Silent Hunter 3 for). I've liked Ubisoft's policies on the subject in recent past, but I really despise developers who force people to have internet connection in order to play the game that they have bought with their hard earned money. If you wish to play this on a computer which doesn't have internet access, then you might as well throw your money into a fire. It will not work, and even if it does, there is the hassle of having to register, authenticate, synchronize, download, update and even scour the internet for files that weren't even included in the installer. My game kept failing to connect to Ubisoft's master server, and the problem turned out to be that I needed to install something else.
I feel extremely bad for having to archive this game, not because of my respect for Ubisoft (which has now taken a crash dive to the bottom of the atlantic), but because my fiancee bought me this game knowing that I love SH4. Ubisoft haven't stolen from me, they've stolen from her, and it's going to take some extremely positive reviews for me to even consider buying Silent Hunter 6, if released.
I will try and play this game, because it was a present, and I always respect gifts bought for me, but unfortunately, it has fallen way short of the benchmark set by Silent Hunter 4. Back to the Pacific I go!
 Here's a more balanced view May 13, 2010
friplow (Cambridge, England)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've been playing Silent Hunter 5 for a few days now and decided it's worth adding a little balance to the reviews already posted up here.
I have very much enjoyed 'playing' (more in this later) Silent Hunter 5 and I was not a prior player of Silent Hunter 3 or 4. The largest proportion of comment on the game comes either from people who have decided they don't like it and so will not buy it, or were prior players of Silent Hunter 3 & 4 who are upset about the changes. The user interaction has radically changed in Silent Hunter 5 from the prior versions in that the sub interior is now modelled in 3D and you can walk around it and interact with the crew. This has changed the style of the game significantly adding a 'first-person' element while the 'strategy' gaming from 3 & 4 has been diluted.
Silent Hunter 5 is best thought of as a 'sim' rather than a game - you can certainly spend half-an-hour chugging through an ocean or returning to your secure pen without shooting anything. The sim is modelling fuel, battery levels etc and the readings on various instruments, and when you dive and surface it is keeping track of CO2 levels inside the boat or compressed air available to 'blow the tanks'. A significant part of the sim is given over to the periscope and the various tools you use to aim and fire the torpedoes. There's a particular new aspect to the game when you can interact face-to-face with the various crew and choose from some very limited personal questions ("is anyone bullying you?") and so boost crew morale, and I'm not aware of any player who has commented on this feature positively but luckily you can pretty much ignore it.
If you enjoyed the movie Das Boot then for the price of not much more than a movie ticket you will get quite a lot of fun out of this sim - not much happens for much of the time but a convoy attack can be hectic. The ocean graphics are truly exceptional (find some videos) - as far as I know *all* users agree this point but the SH3 & 4 guys as said are upset about the changes to the strategy element while the DRM-haters tend not to comment on the graphics either.
The documentation is atrocious and the 'attack' part of the game has quite a learning curve if you haven't played the earlier series, but there's excellent help on the web. I haven't installed mods yet but if I want an on-screen dashboard of instruments similar to SH 3 & 4 then that's available as an excellent mod.
Regarding DRM there's a lot of people oppose the method on principle but my experience was to install a legit copy and the DRM was the least of my issues - I was more concerned with how to find an allied convoy in the dark while patrolling hundreds of square miles of the North Sea, which is how it should be.
So in summary, if you're the kind of person that liked the movie Das Boot, or liked Microsoft Flight Simulator, then you're on fairly safe ground trying this sim.
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