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Great graphics, but needs a lot of improvement

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I really really tried to like this game. I really did. I played it steadily for two weeks. I have played all the major subsims. This one, to its credit, has the best graphics of any to date. Enigma has loads of potential, but unfortunately, this game lacks a coherent well planned out "gaming" mode. This lack of coherence and high difficulty level left me feeling more frustrated than happy. I was eventually turned off because I continuously lost the campaign missions, no matter what I tried or what I accomplished. Although it is advertised as the "most realistic naval combat simulator ever created", it is clearly not. It is more like a very difficult arcade game where one must frantically bob, weave, dive, and shoot at scads of enemies. Often, one is outnumbered by dozens of enemy ships and 95% of the time, my ship was destroyed by unrelenting powerful swarms of enemy ships. The campaign missions are very difficult and often illogical. Often when I won campaign missions, I was at a loss to understand why. The goals of the individual missions are not spelled out clearly. Perhaps this is due to the "fog of war", but on the other hand, consider the following, as one example among many: On sub mission 9, playing a US sub, my orders were to sink oilers. The sub is confronted by a whole fleet of destroyers. I played this mission over and over again, invariably sinking oilers but then getting killed by one of of the enemy destroyers. Finally, after more than three dozen attempts, the game informed me of "victory", yet in this run, I had not sunk a single oiler...I just don't understand what the game wants from me. Again, the graphics are great, it can be a lot of fun to play, but someone needs to sit down and seriously tailor the game so that it presents a sensible challenge to the gamer, with clearly defined objectives and a reasonable chance of success with the missions. As it now stands, Enigma is more frustrating than fun. There's some good stuff here... I do enjoy it to a certain extent, but the overall game needs work.

Couldnt Play the Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Needing a patch to install the game infuriated me. Finally installed , I found that the CD key was invalid. Great- Garbage!
What ever happened to quality control?
Try again Dreamcatcher.

Really fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Enigma: Rising Tide is a really fun game. There is a lot of World War 2 submarines and boats to control during World War 2.
The grafics are really really good and the controls are easy to use. You could control a Japaneze, American, British or a German submarine or boat. If you like WW2 games you should buy this.

Good game but could be improved

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game looking for a challenging naval experience diverce in different ships and realistic situations. What I got wasnt quite that. Enigma has pretty good graphics and the aerial combat is enthralling. Naval battles dont have quite the same feeling but are still engaging.

The voice command system is a nice feature which revokes memories of Ace's of the Deep, except the voice option in Enigma works SO much better. It actually recognizes what I say to the detail of numbers and barings. The only problem is with no "mute" button for when you want to talk on the phone etc. This problem can be fixed with the patch download, as are alot of other things.

Graphics are really nice but suttle details of the ships are lacking hit marks from torpedos or bullets. The patch helps a little but doesnt fix everything.

As far as strategy goes U-boats will launch and dive in attempt to miss your attacks. Killing a U-boat is still a mystery to me as it seems whatever you do with your depth charges seem to "miss" the sub.

The game is somewhat of a disappointment considering there is no game map, only radar. But it serves as a fair play map.

Missions start a little too abruptly as right after the mission starts your already getting shelled. Also the lack of time compression makes some missions play out really long.

But overall its a really good simulation, not great, but good enough. However Im still waiting for a naval simulation thats complete as this ones a little sketchy even after the patch download.

XM

A detailed arcade game, and worth the 50 cents

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an arcade simulation of small ships (destroyer variations and submarines) shooting at airplanes, ships and submarines. The graphics and animation are the only things up to date, the rest of the game is unfinished.
The airplanes attack like swarms of flies. The ocean is endless, there is no land. There is no time compression. There are no other sailors talking in your ear, conveying information and excitment.
There are no strategic goals other than killing, survival and an annoying timer.
I can't get the microphone thing working on XPHome. Why is it my problem to find out the reason?
The weather is sunny or cloudy. The waves are small with no swells. There is no game map, only radar.

When will we get a navy simulation that is finished?

I Recommend: Aces High from HighTechCreations.com

Great graphics and ... not much else.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Do not waste your money on this game! The graphics are the only thing positive I have to say about it.

They should call this game Mission Impossible. No matter what difficulty setting you have it's impossible to finish a non-training mission. If you use a ship the planes will quickly get you. If you are able to get a hit on an enemy ship the planes will finish you off before you can sink it. It happens ever time - no matter the settings, the ship, or the mission your on. If your a sub it's impossible to torpedo anything with out getting blown out of the water by destroyers. Forget about surfacing to fight, the planes and destroyer deck guns will finish you off faster than you can say I want my money back.

A Waste of Time / A Waste of Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Oh My God did I waste $40 on this so called game. Go around blow up ships and shoot down planes and if your lucky you will blow up a submarine. Every map is the same, every mission is the same. Shoot ships, shoot plane, depth charge submarines you can't see. Only semi-cool thing is the voice activated commands, but that gets boring quickly becasue you say the same things over and over and over and they don't even have sound bytes to say "Aye, Aye Sir"; they use text. I bought it becasue I thought there would be more FPS and I would also get to be in the planes. Boats and subs thats all you command. ZZZZzzzz! Save your money. For $40 I expected sound bytes explaining the missions too. But why should they when they are all the same. No story line, what a sleeper. Obviously with 7 companies envolved making this 1 of them would have done something right. I never should have left CS and BHD.

Incredible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

THIS is the best simulations i have ever played but not only that it is a naval simulations.

I encourage these guys to keep going and take it to the next level..

the Graphics are INCREDIBLE, the motion of the sea, the smoke the ships...yes the more you have the more you want it is a law..but this is pretty good for its money....

if you like naval warfare, go for it............and enjoy..you will command subs, light and heavy destroyers, fragates,

I wish they had put battleships and cruisers but maybe next time.....

my favorite:
the german and american destroyers and the british subs, i wonder why? maybe cause they are the best.......oops...

This game is a major disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: April 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the worst games I have played recently. It is not as good as the 1986 'Silent Service' classic in anything except graphics.

The chief failings are:
- Speed of ship/sub. To turn 360 degrees in the submarine takes several minutes. Whatever the realism, this is no fun in a game.
- Lack of charts. It's just a big ocean out there. You can't force subs into shallow water etc.
- Damage / AI is against you even in easy mode. Surface near an enemy, switch to external view, and they'll start to land rounds on you in seconds.
- Lack of decent tactial map. Even though there's two sizes of the tactical map, neither it easy to use. What about the 'wake' which shows you which way a ship is headed?
- Display screens are not thought out that well. For instance, in the sub, you are constantly switching between the targeting scope and tactical map. The targeting scope doesn't show depth info. Also when switching back to the targeting scope you have to keep waiting for it to raise, even though you never lowered it.
- Missions are too hard. Typically you are sent to sink most of a convoy on your own. I knew I was in trouble when it took me 5 attempts to get past the first training mission (how many depth charges does it take to sink that sub?).
- Crew AI. The crew is stupid. Tell them to man the guns and sometimes they'll waste all the ammo in less than a minute.
- General 'completeness' of game. It doesn't seem finished - some effects are bogus (e.g. if you dive too deep in the sub).
- Lack of realism options.

In summary, not a good choice. I'd recommend 'Silent Hunter' as an alternative.

Great game but some glitchs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Very good game play, but you have to make sure you have the exact system requirements and having more would be better. The CD key is a little piece of paper in the box not the case! we have an OK computer but my brother had to download alot of stuff to get it to work and even after that we still have to reinstall it sometimes. The controls are hard to get used to and don't get frustrated if you die alot on your first 5 missions. It has really good graphics and alot of missions, really fun. You can be Germany, US, and Britain/Japanese (I still don't know whats with that). Really fun, a must buy!

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