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3 Stars for the game, 1 more for the price..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a very entertaining arcade-style submarine game where you are pitted against the dreaded Nazi fl-, er, uh oh that's right, you are fighting the Servarians? Souverians? Whatever, all you need to know is that they blow up real good. In this relatively inexpensive game, your WWII styled sub is equipped with 4 different weapons: torpedoes (fore and aft me maties, Har-Har), deck cannon, dual-barrel deck machine guns and a sniper rifle. You also have a frogman that can swim out from your sub and plant bombs in scripted areas.

The "Dreaded Souverians" (the bad guys) have shore-based cannons, fighters, destroyers, and PT-boats to send after you. Most of the game is centered around getting through the "Dreaded Souverian" sea gates that seperate one game level from the next.

Steel Tide comes has support for a joytick but control with a keyboard and mouse works infinately better. This game would be, and in some cases is, very easy. Your main limitation is your ammo supply, it runs out very quickly, especially the deck cannon which I used heavily, even to take out enemy fighters.

Once you are out of ammo, the game is pretty much over, the torpedoes are plentiful but they sometimes have a mind of their own and they are no match against a concentrated enemy attack. The deck cannon is the ultimate "argument ender" but you become target practice dummy #1 when its out of ammo.

All in all, this gam is a fun, albeit mindless, game to play. What would have made it more interesting is if the frogman could actually get out of the water and perform land based missions under your control.

Very fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have always liked sub games but sometimes get annoyed by the simulation stuff. This is the only arcade-like sub game I know of and it is amazing! Why has no one done this before?!?! The controls are pretty intuitive aftera bit of a learning curve and so much fun... the effects and graphics are really good and the sound is too. I have really gotten in to this game and I recommend it. FUN!!...

An entertaining and fast submarine shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

For a ($$$) budget game, Steel Tide was more fun to play than most of the recent "blockbuster" game titles that are heavy on the fancy graphics and light on the core gameplay. The game was simple, looked good, and was easy to pick up. The developers also wisely made sure that it was incredibly satisfying to blast stuff with the big howitzer-type cannons. After playing Steel Tide, and Operation Blockade before it, I can't wait for the next Infogrames budget masterpiece!

Finally a sub game that [isn't bad]!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love naval games, but sub games have traditionally been very slow and boring to me. I was very pleased to find this game to be extremly fast paced and exciting. The sub controls are more like a FPS than a sim type game, not too complicated. Great graphics, tons of action and stuff to blow up make this game one of my current favs.

Can't say much, it won't run on XP like they say it will...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: February 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I read the reviews on this game and it sounded like fun. I bought it and tried repeatedly to get it to run on Windows XP HE, but it keeps sticking or locking up... I heard it was supposed to be a great FPS type, but, who knows? If you really like gaming, don't use XP! Half my games that played on Windows 98SE won't play on XP, despite the so-called "compatibility wizard"... I'll keep trying to get this one to work as it has a lot of potential...so I hear... But, I'll stay away from any Infogrames games after this...

THIS GAME SUX

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: January 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I like most games from Infogrames (i.e. Tiger Hunt, Deadly Dozen, etc.), but this game is horrible! I bought it thinking it was an arcade version of Silent Hunter (Sub warfare in the Pacific) - boy was I wrong!! More of an altered universe around the same time as WWII ;(

Submarines to the most

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You drive a real submarine, with all functions related to it.

Problem is in the way to guid the submarine and when you shoot the rockets, you should be facing the enemy unit, yet I missed some times when I was shooting... It is not an easy matter.

It is a great game if you like submarines, sea, rockets and many things to be managed same time

Dive Dive Dive,Take her to periscope depth

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have had this game for a couple years,it's fun to play,I have always been interested in submarines.My only complaint is I am unable to save my game progress,I always have to start from the beginning,once I got to a poiny where there was some type pf fortress with some huge cannon,and could progress no farther.
There is absolutely no support for this game,so if you have problems like unable to save games,you can do what I did,uninstall the game and toss it in the garbage,thats where my Steel Tide ended up after 2 years.
All that effort wasted gets old after a while.

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